Neutrino interaction with matter in a noninertial frame
Abstract
We study the system of massive and mixed neutrinos interacting with background matter moving with an acceleration. We start with the derivation of the Dirac equation for a single neutrino in the noninertial frame where matter is at rest. A particular case of matter rotating with a constant angular velocity is considered. The Dirac equation is solved and the neutrino energy levels are found for ultrarelativistic particles propagating in rotating matter. Then we generalize our results to include several neutrino generations and consider mixing between them. Using the relativistic quantum mechanics approach we derive the effective Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the description of neutrino flavor oscillations in rotating matter. We obtain the resonance condition for neutrino oscillations and examine how it can be affected by the matter rotation. We also compare our results with the findings of other authors who studied analogous problem previously.
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@article{arxiv.1408.2735,
title = {Neutrino interaction with matter in a noninertial frame},
author = {Maxim Dvornikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2735},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, JHEP LaTeX style; 1 reference was added, multiple misprints were corrected; version to be published in JHEP