Neutrino splitting and density-dependent dispersion relations

DOI10.5402/2012/436580zbMATH Open1362.83029arXiv1112.3551OpenAlexW2170266165WikidataQ58690439 ScholiaQ58690439MaRDI QIDQ2396963FDOQ2396963

Authors: Emilio Ciuffoli, Jarah Evslin, Xinmin Zhang, Xiaojun Bi 

Publication date: 29 May 2017

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

Abstract: We show that particles can split only when their group velocity exceeds their phase velocity. In this sense the splitting process is the quantum analog of the modulational instability in anomalous dispersive media. In the case of a neutrino whose dispersion relation contains a subdominant Lorentz-violating correction of the form aP^k, the neutrino will decay into two neutrinos and an antineutrino at a rate proportional to a^3G_F^2E^{2+3k}. Unlike the Cohen-Glashow instability, the splitting instability exists even if all particles involved in the interaction have the same dispersion relations at the relevant energy scales. We show that this instability leads to strong constraints even if the energy E is a function of both the momentum P and also of the background density rho, for example we show that it alone would have been sufficient to eliminate any model of the MINOS/OPERA velocity anomaly which modifies the neutrino dispersion relation while leaving those of other particles intact.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3551

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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