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A new theoretical framework, based on the quantum field theory of open systems applied to neutrinos, has been developed to describe the neutrino evolution in external environments accounting for the effect of the neutrino quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Konstantin Stankevich , Alexander Studenikin

I recall the place of neutrinos in the electroweak theory and summarize what we know about neutrino mass and flavor change. I next review the essential characteristics expected for relic neutrinos and survey what we can say about the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-08 Chris Quigg

Space-time localization diagrams ``unlock" subtle aspects of $\nu$ oscillations such as coherence and entanglement. Observability of propagation decoherence in oscillating neutrino state is discussed. The sizes of WPs of reactor and source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Alexei Y Smirnov

We derive general constraints on the relic abundances of a long-lived particle which mainly decays into a neutrino (and something else) at cosmological time scales. Such an exotic particle may show up in various particle-physics models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Toru Kanzaki , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi

We have determined the dispersion relation of a neutrino test particle propagating in the cosmic neutrino background. Describing the relic neutrinos and antineutrinos from the hot big bang as a dense medium, a matter potential or refractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 J. S. Diaz , F. R. Klinkhamer

The exact Quantum Kinetic Equations for a two-flavour active-sterile neutrino system are used to provide a systematic derivation of approximate evolution equations for the relic neutrino asymmetry. An extension of the adiabatic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Nicole F. Bell , Raymond R. Volkas , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

The conventional derivation of neutrino oscillation treats neutrino mass eigenstate as plane wave with an overall evolution phase. Nevertheless, due to the intrinsic parity-violating nature of weak interactions, only the left-chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Shao-Feng Ge , Pedro Pasquini

Coherence, which represents the superposition of orthogonal states, is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics and can also be precisely defined within quantum resource theory. Thus exploring quantum coherence in neutrino oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Trambak Jyoti Chall , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , Shireen Gangal , Gaetano Lambiase

The standard model of cosmology predicts the existence of cosmic neutrino background in the present Universe. To detect cosmic relic neutrinos in the vicinity of the Earth, it is necessary to evaluate the gravitational clustering effects on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-10 Jue Zhang , Xin Zhang

The lectures describe several cosmological effects produced by neutrinos. Upper and lower cosmological limits on neutrino mass are derived. The role that neutrinos may play in formation of large scale structure of the universe is described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 A. D. Dolgov

The existence of a cosmic neutrino background -- the analogue of the cosmic microwave background -- is a fundamental prediction of standard big bang cosmology. Up to now, the observational evidence for its existence is rather indirect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Andreas Ringwald

We consider the universe as a huge $\nu_R$-sphere formed with degenerate relic neutrinos and suggest that its constant energy density play a role of an effective cosmological constant. We construct the sphere as a bubble of true vacuum in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-19 Tae Hoon Lee

In dense neutrino backgrounds present in supernovae and in the early Universe, neutrino oscillations may exhibit complex collective phenomena, such as synchronized oscillations, bipolar oscillations and spectral splits and swaps. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-02 Evgeny Akhmedov , Joachim Kopp , Manfred Lindner

In this paper, we aim to explore the interplay between neutrinos and quantum gravity, illustrating some proposals about the use of these particles as probes for the supposed quantized structure of spacetime. The residual signatures of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Marco Danilo Claudio Torri , Lino Miramonti

We discuss the theoretical possibility that the neutrino mass differences have part of their origin in the quantum-decoherence-inducing medium of space-time foam, which characterises some models of quantum gravity, in much the same way as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick E. Mavromatos , Sarben Sarkar

In arXiv:2410.21850, I proved that the quantum coherence between the mass eigenstates of a neutrino will be destroyed if they are correlated with different momenta. In arXiv:2411.01190, James M. Cline claimed that I had made the unrealistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-20 Shi-Biao Zheng

Physical systems in real life are inextricably linked to their surroundings and never completely separated from them. Truly closed systems do not exist. The phenomenon of decoherence, which is brought about by the interaction with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-11 Gabriela Barenboim , Alberto M. Gago

Neutrinos interacting with the quintessence field can trigger the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In such models with a growing neutrino mass the homogeneous cosmological solution is often unstable to perturbations. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Brouzakis , N. Tetradis , C. Wetterich

High-energy neutrinos may resonate with relic background neutralinos to form short-lived sneutrinos. In some circumstances, the decay chain that leads back to the lightest supersymmetric particle would yield few-GeV gamma rays or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabriela Barenboim , Olga Mena Requejo , Chris Quigg

We investigated the influence of \(\kappa\) Minkowski-type quantum spacetime on neutrino oscillations, revealing that spacetime fluctuations introduce a unique energy-dependent power law, \(E^{-4}\), in the decoherence effect for relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Partha Nandi , Tiasha Bhattacharyya