Studying the neutrino wave-packet effects at medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiments and the potential benefits of an extra detector

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2021.115304MaRDI QIDQ2231841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhaokan Cheng, Wei Wang, Chan Fai Wong, Jing-Bo Zhang

Publication date 30 September 2021

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06450

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

Abstract: We examine the potential of the future medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation (MBRO) experiments in studying neutrino wave-packet impact. In our study, we treat neutrinos as wave packets and use the corresponding neutrino flavor transition probabilities. The delocalization, separation and spreading of the wave packets lead to decoherence and dispersion effects, which modify the plane-wave neutrino oscillation pattern, by amounts that depend on the energy uncertainties in the initial neutrino wave packets. We find that MBRO experiments could be sensitive to the wave-packet impact, since the baseline is long enough and also the capability of observing small corrections to the neutrino oscillations due to excellent detector energy resolution. Besides studying the constraints on the decoherence parameter, we also examine the potential wave-packet impacts on the precision of measuring $het{a}_{12}$ and other oscillation parameters in the future medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiments. Moreover, we also probe the potential benefits of an additional detector for studying such exotic neutrino physics.

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