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Within a conventional Hamiltonian description, we find accurate closed-form expressions for the oscillation probabilities of three coupled neutrinos propagating in matter. Subtle cancelations that occur in coefficients of our formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-11 Mikkel B. Johnson , Leonard S. Kisslinger

We present a formalism for the matter effects in the Earth on low energy neutrino fluxes which is both accurate and has all advantages of a full analytic treatment. The oscillation probabilities are calculated up to second order term in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. N. Ioannisian , N. A. Kazarian , A. Yu. Smirnov , D. Wyler

Motivated by tremendous progress in neutrino oscillation experiments, we derive a new set of simple and compact formulas for three-flavor neutrino oscillation probabilities in matter of a constant density. A useful definition of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-28 Yu-Feng Li , Jue Zhang , Shun Zhou , Jing-yu Zhu

Exact analytical expressions in terms of generalized confluent hypergeometric functions for the transition amplitudes of neutrino oscillations in presence of matter are computed for an arbitrary number of species. The density of matter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Emilio Torrente-Lujan

Supernovae of Type II is a phenomenon that occurs at the end of evolution of massive stars when the iron core of the star exceeds a mass limit. After collapse of the core under gravity the shock wave alone does not succeed in expelling the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Baldo , V. Palmisano

In this paper, we develop approximative two-flavor neutrino oscillation formulas including subleading nonstandard interaction effects. Especially, the limit when the small mass-squared difference approaches zero is investigated. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mattias Blennow , Tommy Ohlsson

We discuss some possible influence of neutrino oscillations on physics of supernova mainly focusing on the observations of $\bar{\nu}_e$, and present some analysis of SN1987A data in the light of three neutrino mixing scheme.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nunokawa

Non-linear effects on supernova neutrino oscillations, associated with neutrino self-interactions, are known to induce collective flavor transitions near the supernova core for theta_13 \neq 0. In scenarios with very shallow electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , A. Mirizzi

Several extensions of the standard electroweak model allow new four-fermion interactions (nu_a nu_b * ff) with strength eps_ab*G_F, where (a,b) are flavor indices. We revisit their effects on flavor oscillations of massive (anti)neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Mirizzi , D. Montanino

If a sterile neutrino nu_s with an eV-scale mass and a sizeable mixing to the electron neutrino exists, as indicated by the reactor and gallium neutrino anomalies, a strong resonance enhancement of nu_e-nu_s oscillations of atmospheric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-29 Evgeny Akhmedov

Oscillations of neutrino emerging from a supernova core are studied. In this extremely high density region neutrino self interactions induce collective flavor transitions. When collective transitions are decoupled from matter oscillations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-19 Gianluigi Fogli , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Mirizzi

This paper outlines a method for improving the precision of atmospheric neutrino oscillation measurements. One experimental signature for these oscillations is an observed deficit in the rate of $\nu_{\mu}$ charged-current interactions with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew Blake , John Chapman , Mark Thomson

Analytic results are presented for the probability of detecting an electron neutrino after passage through a resonant oscillation region. If the electron neutrino is produced far above the resonance density, this probability is simply given…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-15 Stephen J. Parke

A neutrino propagating through fluctuating matter can experience large amplitude transitions between its states. Such transitions occur in supernovae and compact object mergers due to turbulent matter profiles and neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

A neutrino subject to an external, time-dependent perturbing potential can be forced to make transitions between its flavor states. A neutrino with three (or more) flavors can exhibit phenomena that cannot occur if the neutrino had just…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-20 Y. Yang , J. P. Kneller , K. M. Perkins

Neutrinos and antineutrinos of all three flavours are emitted during the post bounce phase of a core collapse supernova with $\numu/\nutau (\anumu/\anutau)$ having average energies more than that of $\nue(\anue)$. They can be detected by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sandhya Choubey , Debasish Majumdar , Kamales Kar

In this paper, we show the effects on the transition probabilities for neutrino oscillations due to a thin constant density layer perturbation added to an arbitrary matter density profile. In the case of two neutrino flavors, we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tommy Ohlsson

A recently published method for solving the neutrino evolution equation with constant matter density is further refined and used to lay out an exact algorithm for computing oscillation probabilities, which is moderately faster than previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-29 James Page

Analytic formulas are presented for three flavor neutrino oscillations in matter in the plane wave approximation. We calculate in particular the time evolution operator in both mass and flavor bases. We also find the transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tommy Ohlsson , Hakan Snellman

Collective oscillations of supernova neutrinos above the neutrino sphere can be completely described by the propagation of individual neutrinos in external potentials and are in this sense a linear phenomenon. An effective theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Rasmus S. L. Hansen , Alexei Yu. Smirnov