Tuesday, May 21, 2013

1305.4430 (Jonathan Miller et al.)

Quantum Gravity effect on neutrino oscillations in a strong
gravitational field
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Jonathan Miller, Roman Pasechnik
In the Quantum Mechanics framework an interaction of a neutrino with a graviton causes the collapse of the neutrino wave function to a neutrino mass eigenstate. This essentially Quantum Gravity effect may have strong consequences for neutrino oscillation phenomena over large distances and in extreme astrophysical environments. We found a significant modification of the neutrino oscillation characteristics due to the graviton-neutrino interaction. Based on this study, we propose a new technique for the graviton detection by measuring the oscillation characteristics of astrophysical neutrinos.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4430

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