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Quantum-Gravity Decoherence Effects in Neutrino Oscillations: Expected Constraints from CNGS and J-PARC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum-gravity models. In most cases, such models lead to fewer neutrinos of all active flavours being detected in a long baseline experiment as compared to three-flavour standard neutrino oscillations. We discuss the potential of the CNGS and J-PARC beams in constraining models of quantum-gravity induced decoherence using neutrino oscillations as a probe. We use as much as possible model-independent parameterizations, even though they are motivated by specific microscopic models, for fits to the expected experimental data which yield bounds on quantum-gravity decoherence parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0872,
  title  = {Quantum-Gravity Decoherence Effects in Neutrino Oscillations: Expected Constraints from CNGS and J-PARC},
  author = {Nick E. Mavromatos and Anselmo Meregaglia and Andre Rubbia and Alexander Sakharov and Sarben Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0872},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

40 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections