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Synchronisation and MSW sharpening of neutrinos propagating in a flavour blind medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider neutrino oscillations in a medium in which scattering processes are blind to the neutrino flavour. We present an analytical derivation of the synchronised behaviour obtained in the limit where the average scattering rate is much larger than the oscillation frequency. We also examine MSW transitions in these circumstances, and show that a sharpening of the transition can result.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011068,
  title  = {Synchronisation and MSW sharpening of neutrinos propagating in a flavour blind medium},
  author = {Nicole F. Bell and R. F. Sawyer and Raymond R. Volkas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011068},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B