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Subtle problems in the theory of neutrino oscillations in vacuum are discussed. It is shown that Lorentz invariance implies that in general flavor neutrinos in oscillation experiments are superpositions of massive neutrinos with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Giunti

The detection and the research of the neutrinos background of Universe are the attractive problems. This problems do not seem the unpromising one in the case of the high neutrinos density that is necessary for the explanation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Valery Koryukin

We review some astrophysical and cosmological properties and implications of neutrino masses and mixing angles. These include: constraints based on the relic density of neutrinos, limits on their masses and lifetimes, BBN limits on mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Kimmo Kainulainen , Keith A. Olive

We consider the possibility that a large fraction of the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are decay products of Z bosons which were produced in the scattering of ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrinos on cosmological relic neutrinos. We compare the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , A. Ringwald

Future cosmological data may be sensitive to the effects of a finite sum of neutrino masses even as small as ~0.06 eV, the lower limit guaranteed by neutrino oscillation experiments. We show that a cosmological detection of neutrino mass at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico

We study coherent interaction of cosmic background neutrinos(CBNs) with matter of periodic structure. The mixing and small masses of neutrinos discovered in neutrino oscillation experiments indicate that CBNs which have very low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei Liao

We study gravitational lensing of the cosmic neutrino background. This signal is undetectable for the foreseeable future, but there is a rich trove of information available. At least some of the neutrinos from the early universe will be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Joshua Yao-Yu Lin , Gilbert Holder

We explore the impact of strong gravitational fields on neutrino decoherence. To this aim, we employ the density matrix formalism to describe the propagation of neutrino wave packets in curved spacetime. By considering Gaussian wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Amélie Chatelain , Maria Cristina Volpe

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to neutrino interactions with the background particles, triggers resonant flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 M. Cristina Volpe

The density of relic neutrinos is expected to be enhanced due to clustering in our local neighbourhood at Earth. We introduce a novel analytical technique to calculate the neutrino overdensity, based on kinetic field theory. Kinetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Emil Brinch Holm , Isabel M. Oldengott , Stefan Zentarra

The emerging structure of the neutrino mass matrix, when combined with the primordial element abundances, places the most stringent constraint on the flavor asymmetries in the cosmological neutrino background and therefore its energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevork Abazajian

If a neutrino or antineutrino produced in the decay of an unstable particle is not entangled to its accompanying particles, its mass is necessarily correlated with its momentum. In this manuscript, I illustrate that this entanglement would…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-28 Shi-Biao Zheng

Recently the possibility was widely discussed that a large fraction of the highest energy cosmic rays may be decay products of Z bosons which were produced in the resonant annihilation of ultrahigh energy cosmic neutrinos on cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ringwald

The archetypal model for the recently discovered dark energy component of the universe is based on the existence of a scalar field whose dynamical evolution comes down today to a non-vanishing cosmological constant. In the past - before…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Salati

In the latest of a series of papers (arXiv:2410.21850), it has been claimed that neutrinos cannot oscillate as a consequence of their mass mixing. I clarify that this arises from the unrealistic assumption that neutrinos will always be in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 James M. Cline

Recent work has proposed that the interaction between ordinary matter and a stochastic gravitational background can lead to the decoherence of large aggregates of ordinary matter. In this work we point out that these arguments can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-12 Douglas Singleton , Nader Inan , Raymond Y. Chiao

Astrophysical and cosmological arguments and observations give us the most restrictive constraints on neutrino masses, electromagnetic couplings, and other properties. Conversely, massive neutrinos would contribute to the cosmic dark-matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg G. Raffelt

In extreme astrophysical environments such as core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, neutrinos play a major role in driving various dynamical and microphysical phenomena, such as baryonic matter outflows, the synthesis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 A. B. Balantekin , Michael J. Cervia , Amol V. Patwardhan , Ermal Rrapaj , Pooja Siwach

The spectrum and amplitude of the stochastic background of relic gravitons produced in a bouncing universe is calculated. The matter content of the model consists of dust and radiation fluids, and the bounce occurs due to quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Dennis Bessada , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Beatriz B. Siffert , Oswaldo D. Miranda

The cosmic neutrino background is both a dramatic prediction of the hot Big Bang and a compelling target for current and future observations. The impact of relativistic neutrinos in the early universe has been observed at high significance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Daniel Green , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran