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On the New Conditions for a Total Neutrino Conversion in a Medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that the arguments forming the basis for the claim that the conditions for total neutrino conversion derived and studied in detail in [1,2] ``are just the conditions of the parametric resonance of neutrino oscillations supplemented by the requirement that the parametric enhancement be complete'', given in [4] have flaws which make the claim physically questionable. We show also that in the case of the transitions in the Earth of the Earth-core-crossing solar and atmospheric neutrinos the peaks in the relevant transitions probabilities PabP_{a b}, associated with the new conditions, maxPab=1max P_{a b} = 1, are of physical relevance - in contrast to what is suggested in [4]. Actually, the enhancement of PabP_{a b} in any region of the corresponding parameter space are essentially determined by these absolute maxima of PabP_{a b}. We comment on few other aspects of the results derived in [1,2,3] which have been misunderstood and/or misinterpreted in [4].

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0003110,
  title  = {On the New Conditions for a Total Neutrino Conversion in a Medium},
  author = {M. V. Chizhov and S. T. Petcov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0003110},
  year   = {2007}
}

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