Flavour transitions of Dirac-Majorana neutrinos |
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Authors: | Salvatore Esposito Nicola Tancredi |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli “Federico II” Mostra d'Oltremare Pad. 19, I-80125 Napoli, Italy , IT;(2) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Mostra d'Oltremare Pad. 20, I-80125 Napoli, Italy , IT |
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Abstract: | From a phenomenological point of view, we study active-active and active-sterile flavour-changing (and flavour-conserving)
oscillations of Dirac-Majorana neutrinos both in vacuum and in matter. The general expressions for the transition probabilities
in vacuum are reported. We then investigate some interesting consequences following from particular simple forms of the neutrino
mass matrices, and for the envisaged scenarios we discuss in detail neutrino propagation in matter. Special emphasis is given
to the problem of occurrence of resonant enhancement of active-active and active-sterile neutrino oscillations in a medium.
The peculiar novel features related to the Dirac-Majorana nature of neutrinos are particularly pointed out.
Received: 20 February 1998 / Published online: 5 June 1998 |
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