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We study oscillations of Dirac neutrinos in background matter and a plane electromagnetic wave. First, we find the new exact solution of the Dirac-Pauli equation for a massive neutrino with the anomalous magnetic moment electroweakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Maxim Dvornikov

Several new and interesting aspects of neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field are considered: 1) We develop a standard usually used approach to the neutrino spin oscillations in the neutrino mass basis and obtain the effective neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander Dmitriev , Riccardo Fabbricatore , Alexander Studenikin

We propose a modified Dirac equation for a massive neutrino moving in the presence of the background matter. The effects of the charged and neutral-current interactions with the matter as well as the matter motion and polarization are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-19 Alexander Studenikin , Alexei Ternov

We study spin and spin-flavor oscillations of Dirac neutrinos in a plane electromagnetic wave with circular polarization. The evolution of massive neutrinos with nonzero magnetic moments in the field of an electromagnetic wave is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-01 Maxim Dvornikov

In this chapter we present basic concepts of neutrino physics. We start with a brief introduction to the standard model electroweak sector, followed by calculations of some relevant neutrino interaction cross sections. We obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Pedro A. N. Machado

We study spin oscillations of massive Dirac neutrinos in background matter, electromagnetic and gravitational fields. First, using the Dirac equation for a neutrino interacting with the external fields in curved spacetime, we rederive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Maxim Dvornikov

We study spin-flavor oscillations of Dirac neutrinos with mixing and having non-zero matrix of magnetic moments in magnetic fields of various configurations. We discuss constant transversal and twisting magnetic fields. To describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-16 Maxim Dvornikov

In this work we develop a mathematical formalism which allows obtaining oscillation formula for neutrino of any energy. We demonstrate that in the ultra-relativistic limit the results obtained in this new approach agree with the previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-28 A. E. Lobanov

We present the exact formula for neutrino oscillations. By resorting to recent results of Quantum Field Theory of fermion mixing, we work out the Green's function formalism for mixed neutrinos. The usual quantum mechanical Pontecorvo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Massimo Blasone , Peter A. Henning , Giuseppe Vitiello

We present a rather powerful method in investigations of different phenomena that can appear when neutrinos and electrons propagate in background matter. This method is based on the use of the modified Dirac equations for particles wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Alexander Studenikin

Starting with the Dirac-Pauli equation for a massive neutrino in an external magnetic field, we propose a new quantum equation for a neutrino in the presence of the background matter. On this basis the quantum theory of a neutrino moving in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Studenikin , Alexei Ternov

Spin-flavor oscillations of Dirac neutrinos in matter and a magnetic field are studied using the method of relativistic quantum mechanics. Using the exact solution of the wave equation for a massive neutrino, taking into account external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-13 Maxim Dvornikov

As the increasing of neutrino energy or matter density, the neutrino oscillation in matter may undergo "vacuum-dominated", "resonance" and "matter-dominated" three different stages successively. Neutrinos endure very different matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 Shu Luo

We investigate potential quantum nonlinear corrections to Dirac's equation through its sub-leading effect on neutrino oscillation probabilities. Working in the plane-wave approximation and in the $\mu-\tau$ sector, we explore various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-08 Wei Khim Ng , Rajesh R. Parwani

We study Dirac neutrinos propagating in rotating background matter. First we derive the Dirac equation for a single massive neutrino in the noninertial frame, where matter is at rest. This equation is written in the effective curved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-11 Maxim Dvornikov

We derive the new quasi-classical equation for the description of the spin evolution of a neutrino propagating in a curved space-time and interacting with a background matter and an external electromagnetic field. This equation is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-17 Maxim Dvornikov

Parametric enhancement of the appearance probability of the neutrino oscillation under the inhomogeneous matter is studied. Fourier expansion of the matter density profile leads to a simple resonance condition and manifests that each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-16 Masafumi Koike , Toshihiko Ota , Masako Saito , Joe Sato

Despite the theory of neutrino oscillations being rather old, some of its basic issues are still being debated in the literature. We discuss, in the framework of the wave packet approach, a number of such issues, including the relevance of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-10 Evgeny Kh. Akhmedov , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

We write the probabilities for neutrino oscillations in uniform-density matter exactly in terms of convention-independent vacuum neutrino oscillation parameters and the matter density. This extends earlier results formulating neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 P. F. Harrison , W. G. Scott , T. J. Weiler

New effects of nontrivial neutrino electromagnetic properties are investigated on the basis of exact solutions of the modified Dirac equations for neutrinos in dense magnetized rotating matter. The effect of spatial separation of different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Alexander Studenikin , Ilya Tokarev