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Non-Unitary Neutrino Propagation From Neutrino Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-02-13 v3

Abstract

Neutrino propagation in space-time is not constrained to be unitary if very light states - lighter than the active neutrinos - exist into which neutrinos may decay. If this is the case, neutrino flavor-change is governed by a handful of extra mixing and "oscillation" parameters, including new sources of CP-invariance violation. We compute the transition probabilities in the two- and three-flavor scenarios and discuss the different phenomenological consequences of the new physics. These are qualitatively different from other sources of unitarity violation discussed in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1407.6631,
  title  = {Non-Unitary Neutrino Propagation From Neutrino Decay},
  author = {Jeffrey M. Berryman and André de Gouvêa and Daniel Hernández and Roberto L. N. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6631},
  year   = {2015}
}

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