Path integral of neutrino oscillations
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-09-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We propose an idea of the constrained Feynman amplitude for the scattering of the charged lepton and the virtual W-boson, , from which the conventional Pontecorvo oscillation formula of relativistic neutrinos is readily obtained using plane waves for all the particles involved. In a path integral picture, the neutrino propagates forward in time between the production and detection vertices, which are constrained respectively on the 3-dimensional spacelike hypersurfaces separated by a macroscopic positive time . The covariant Feynman amplitude is formally recovered if one sums over all possible values of (including negative ).
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@article{arxiv.2009.08082,
title = {Path integral of neutrino oscillations},
author = {Kazuo Fujikawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08082},
year = {2020}
}
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15 pages