Neutrino Oscillations in Strong Gravitational Fields
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-08-15 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Neutrino oscillations in the presence of strong gravitational fields are studied. We look at very high energy neutrinos (1 TeV) emanating from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). It is observed that spin flavor resonant transitions of such neutrinos may occur in the vicinity of AGN due to {\it gravitational} effects and due to the presence of a large magnetic field (1 Tesla). A point to note is that matter effects (normal MSW transitions) become negligible in comparison o gravitational effects in our scenario.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9604403,
title = {Neutrino Oscillations in Strong Gravitational Fields},
author = {Dardo Píriz and Mou Roy and José Wudka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9604403},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Latex, 22 pages, 7 embedded figures using epsf.tex. To appear in Phys. Rev. D