PROBING QUANTUM NONLINEARITIES THROUGH NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217732310032792zbMATH Open1189.81153arXiv0805.3015MaRDI QIDQ3570735FDOQ3570735

Authors: Wei Khim Ng, Rajesh R. Parwani 

Publication date: 28 June 2010

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate potential quantum nonlinear corrections to Dirac's equation through its sub-leading effect on neutrino oscillation probabilities. Working in the plane-wave approximation and in the $mu-au$ sector, we explore various classes of nonlinearities, with or without an accompanying Lorentz violation. The parameters in our models are first delimited by current experimental data before they are used to estimate corrections to oscillation probabilities. We find that only a small subset of the considered nonlinearities have the potential to be relevant at higher energies and thus possibly detectable in future experiments. A falsifiable prediction of our models is an energy dependent effective mass-squared, generically involving fractional powers of the energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3015

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz violationneutrino oscillationsquantum nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

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• Lorentz violation at high energy: concepts, phenomena, and astrophysical constraints
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• Dirac theory within the Standard-Model Extension

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• Nonlinear Dirac equations with applications to neutrino oscillations
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