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Time-energy uncertainty relation for neutrino oscillations in curved spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive the Mandelstam-Tamm time-energy uncertainty relation for neutrino oscillations in a generic stationary curved spacetime. In particular, by resorting to Stodolsky covariant formula of the quantum mechanical phase, we estimate gravity effects on the neutrino energy uncertainty. Deviations from the standard Minkowski result are explicitly evaluated in Schwarzschild, Lense-Thirring and Rindler (uniformly accelerated) geometries. Finally, we discuss how spacetime could affect the characteristic neutrino oscillation length in connection with the recent view of flavor neutrinos as unstable particles.

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@article{arxiv.1904.05261,
  title  = {Time-energy uncertainty relation for neutrino oscillations in curved spacetime},
  author = {Massimo Blasone and Gaetano Lambiase and Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano and Luciano Petruzziello and Luca Smaldone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05261},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages