The MSW effect in a fluctuating matter density
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We consider the effect on matter-enhanced neutrino flavor transformation of a randomly fluctuating, delta-correlated matter density. The fluctuations will produce a distribution of neutrino survival probabilities. We find the mean and variance of the distribution for the case of solar neutrinos, and discuss the possibility of placing a limit on solar density fluctuations using neutrino data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9604061,
title = {The MSW effect in a fluctuating matter density},
author = {A. B. Balantekin and J. M. Fetter and F. N. Loreti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9604061},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
20 LaTeX pages plus 24 Postscript figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. D; also available at http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/preprints/mad-nt-96-01.tar.gz