Interaction of neutrinos with a cosmological k-essence scalar

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2010)062zbMATH Open1290.81208arXiv0911.3168OpenAlexW3101295241MaRDI QIDQ2014979FDOQ2014979

Ratindranath Akhoury, Christopher S. Gauthier, Ryo Saotome

Publication date: 17 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study a novel means of coupling neutrinos to a Lorentz violating background k-essence field. We first look into the effect that k-essence has on the neutrino dispersion relation and derive a general formula for the neutrino velocity in the presence on a k-essence background. The influence of k-essence coupling on neutrino oscillations is then considered. It is found that a non-diagonal k-essence coupling leads to an oscillation length that goes like lambda sim E^{-1} where E is the energy. This should be contrasted with the lambda sim E dependence seen in the standard mass-induced mechanism of neutrino oscillations. While such a scenario is not favored experimentally, it places constraints on the interactions of the neutrino with a cosmological k-essence scalar background by requiring it to be flavor diagonal. All non-trivial physical effects discussed here require the speed of sound to be different from the speed of light and hence are primarily a consequence of Lorentz violation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3168

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMsolar and atmospheric neutrinos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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