Spin-flavor oscillations of Dirac neutrinos described by relativistic quantum mechanics |
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Authors: | M S Dvornikov |
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Institution: | 1.Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation,Russian Academy of Sciences,Troitsk, Moscow oblast,Russia;2.Inst. de Fisica, Univ. de Sao Paulo (IFUSP),Sao Paulo,Brasil |
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Abstract: | 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 fields, the
effective Hamiltonian governing neutrino spin-flavor oscillations is derived. Then the The consistency of our approach with
the commonly used quantum mechanical method is demonstrated. The obtained correction to the usual effective Hamiltonian results
in the appearance of the new resonance in neutrino oscillations. Applications to spin-flavor neutrino oscillations in an expanding
envelope of a supernova are discussed. In particular, transitions between right-polarized electron neutrinos and additional
sterile neutrinos are studied for realistic background matter and magnetic field distributions. The influence of other factors
such as the longitudinal magnetic field, the matter polarization, and the non-standard contributions to the neutrino effective
potential, is also analyzed. |
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