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Neutrino and anti-neutrino states coming from the neutral current or $Z_0$ decay are blind with respect to the flavor. The neutrino oscillation is observed and formulated when its flavor is known. However, it has been shown that we can see…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 M. M. Ettefaghi , Z. Askaripour Ravari

QCD with N_f=2 is a specially interesting system to investigate the chiral transition. The order of the transition has still not been established. We report the results of an in-depth numerical investigation performed with staggered…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D'Elia , A. Di Giacomo , C. Pica

We show that the phase appearing in neutrino flavor oscillation formulae has a geometric and topological contribution. We identify a topological phase appearing in the two flavor neutrino oscillation formula using Pancharatnam's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Poonam Mehta

The chiral symmetry of QCD with two massless quark flavours gets restored in a non-analytic chiral phase transition at finite temperature and zero density. Whether this is a first-order or a second-order transition has not yet been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-05 Claudio Bonati , Massimo D'Elia , Philippe de Forcrand , Owe Philipsen , Francesco Sanfillippo

The Standard Model of particle physics describes neutrinos as massless, chargeless elementary particles that come in three different flavours. However, recent experiments indicate that neutrinos not only have mass, but also have multiple…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Spandan Mondal

We demonstrate how chiral oscillations of a massive Dirac field can be described within quantum field theory using a finite-time interaction picture approach, where the mass term in the Lagrangian is treated as a perturbative coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Massimo Blasone , Francesco Giacosa , Luca Smaldone , Giorgio Torrieri

For (3+1)-dimensional fermions, a net axial charge and external magnetic field can lead to a current parallel to the magnetic field. This is the chiral magnetic effect. We use gauge-gravity duality to study the chiral magnetic effect in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Carlos Hoyos , Tatsuma Nishioka , Andy O'Bannon

We recently studied neutrinos flavor oscillations in vacuum within conformal coupling models. In this paper, we extend that analysis by investigating neutrino flavor oscillations inside matter within a general conformal coupling scenario.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-15 Fayçal Hammad , Parvaneh Sadeghi , Nicolas Fleury

We present a formalism for the flavor oscillation of unstable particles that relies only upon the structure of the time Fourier-transformed two-point Green's function. We derive exact oscillation probability and integrated oscillation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-26 Mario Martone , Dean J. Robinson

The topological susceptibility of the vacuum in quantum chromodynamics has been simulated numerically using the Asqtad improved staggered fermion formalism. At nonzero lattice spacing the residual fermion doublers (fermion ``tastes'') in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Brian Billeter , Carleton DeTar , James Osborn

Phenomenon of coherent double-flavor oscillations is discussed. They can arise when heavy flavored neutral mesons decay with production of neutral kaons. The oscillations may be used to study detailed properties of the heavy mesons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. Azimov

Based on the covariant Wigner function approach we derive the quantum Boltzmann equation for fermions with flavor mixing in general curved spacetime. This work gives a rigorous theoretical framework to investigate the flavor oscillation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Neutrinos propagating in matter acquire an effective electromagnetic vertex induced by their weak interactions with the charged particles in the background. In the presence of an external magnetic field the induced vertex affects the flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Juan Carlos D'Olivo , Jose F. Nieves

Collective oscillations in dense neutrino gases (flavor waves) are notable for their instabilities that cause fast flavor conversion. We develop a quantum theory of interacting neutrinos and flavor wave quanta, which are analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Georg G. Raffelt

Present situation in the flavour mixing of quarks and leptons is briefly reviewed and a new approach called the Minimal Flavour Mixing (MFM) is considered in detail. According to MFM the whole of the flavour mixing is basically determined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. L. Chkareuli

Mounting evidence indicates that neutrinos likely undergo fast flavor conversion (FFC) in at least some core-collapse supernovae. Outcomes of FFC, however, remain highly uncertain. Here we study the cascade of flavor-field power from large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Lucas Johns , Hiroki Nagakura , George M. Fuller , Adam Burrows

Flavor oscillations of neutrinos are analyzed in the framework of Brans-Dicke theory of gravity. We find a shift of quantum mechanical phase of neutrino proportional to $G_N\Delta m^2$ and depending on the parameter $\omega$. Consequences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase

Field mixing transformations are studied in quantum field theory and the generator of the transformations is found to induce an SU(2) coherent structure in the vacuum state, both for bosons and for fermions. The Fock space for mixed fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Blasone , P. A. Henning , G. Vitiello

The present thesis aimed to examine the effects of vorticity on the thermodynamics of relativistic quantum systems. We extend the Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator method to address quantum effects induced by vorticity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Matteo Buzzegoli

This study examines the dynamics of quantumness in two-flavor neutrino oscillations subjected to a dephasing channel, using representative oscillation parameters associated with the KamLAND, MINOS, and Daya Bay experiments. We analyze three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jilali Loulijat , Abdallah Slaoui , Mohamed Gouighri , Berihu Teklu