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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, lβ+Wρlα+Wλl_{\beta} + W_{\rho} \rightarrow l_{\alpha} + W_{\lambda}, 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 τ\tau. The covariant Feynman amplitude is formally recovered if one sums over all possible values of τ\tau (including negative τ\tau).

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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

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