MSW-like Enhancements without Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We study the effects of a scalar field, coupled only to neutrinos, on oscillations among weak interaction current eigenstates. The effect of a real scalar field appears as effective masses for the neutrino mass eigenstates, the same for as for . Under some conditions, this can lead to a vanishing of , giving rise to MSW-like effects. We discuss some examples and show that it is possible to resolve the apparent discrepancy in spectra required by r-process nucleosynthesis in the mantles of supernovae and by Solar neutrino solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9610317,
title = {MSW-like Enhancements without Matter},
author = {G. J. Stephenson and T. Goldman and B. H. J. McKellar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9610317},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages, latex, 1 figure