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Neutrinos in curved spacetime: Particle mixing and flavor oscillations

A. Capolupo, G. Lambiase, and A. Quaranta
Phys. Rev. D 101, 095022 – Published 18 May 2020

Abstract

We present a quantum field theoretical approach to the vacuum neutrino oscillations in curved space, we analyze the nontrivial interplay between quantum field mixing and field quantization in curved space and derive new oscillation formulas. We compute the formulas explicitly in the spatially flat Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker metrics for universes dominated by a cosmological constant and by radiation. We evaluate the transition probabilities in the Schwarzschild black hole metric, and we show that the Hawking radiation affects the oscillations of neutrinos. We show that our results are consistent with those of previous analyses when the quantum mechanical limit is considered.

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  • Received 1 March 2020
  • Accepted 5 May 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.095022

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Particles & Fields

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A. Capolupo*, G. Lambiase, and A. Quaranta

  • Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello” Università di Salerno, and INFN—Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy

  • *capolupo@sa.infn.it
  • lambiase@sa.infn.it
  • anquaranta@unisa.it

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Vol. 101, Iss. 9 — 1 May 2020

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