Neutrino oscillations: quantum mechanics vs. quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)008zbMATH Open1272.81200arXiv1001.4815OpenAlexW3099832219WikidataQ59254764 ScholiaQ59254764MaRDI QIDQ367882FDOQ367882

Evgeny Akhmedov, Joachim Kopp

Publication date: 16 September 2013

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

Abstract: A consistent description of neutrino oscillations requires either the quantum-mechanical (QM) wave packet approach or a quantum field theoretic (QFT) treatment. We compare these two approaches to neutrino oscillations and discuss the correspondence between them. In particular, we derive expressions for the QM neutrino wave packets from QFT and relate the free parameters of the QM framework, in particular the effective momentum uncertainty of the neutrino state, to the more fundamental parameters of the QFT approach. We include in our discussion the possibilities that some of the neutrino's interaction partners are not detected, that the neutrino is produced in the decay of an unstable parent particle, and that the overlap of the wave packets of the particles involved in the neutrino production (or detection) process is not maximal. Finally, we demonstrate how the properly normalized oscillation probabilities can be obtained in the QFT framework without an ad hoc normalization procedure employed in the QM approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4815

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zbMATH Keywords

neutrino physicssolar and atmospheric neutrinos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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