MSW Without Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We examine the effects of a scalar field, coupled only to neutrinos, on oscillations among weak interaction current eigenstates. The existence of a real scalar field is manifested 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 present an idealized example and show that it may be 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/9608287,
title = {MSW Without Matter},
author = {T. Goldman and B. H. J. McKellar and G. J. Stephenson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9608287},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3pp. LaTeX including 2 psfigures; to appear in Proceedings, DPF96, Minneapolis, 11-15 August 1996