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Constraints on quantum spacetime-induced decoherence from neutrino oscillations

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Pancini," Università di Napoli Federico II, INFN sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo Edificio 6, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

Description

We investigate the implications of decoherence induced by quantum spacetime properties on neutrino oscillation phenomena. We develop a general formalism where the evolution of neutrinos is governed by a Lindblad-type equation and we compute the oscillation damping factor for various models that have been proposed in the literature. Furthermore, we discuss the sensitivity to these effects of different types of neutrino oscillation experiments, encompassing astrophysical, atmospheric, solar, and reactor neutrino experiments. By using neutrino oscillation data from long-baseline reactors and atmospheric neutrino observations, we establish stringent constraints on the energy scale governing the strength of the decoherence induced by stochastic metric fluctuations, amounting to, respectively, EQG2.6×1034GeV and EQG2.5×1055GeV.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.110.026004;
arXiv
arXiv:2306.14778;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100007195; 10.13039/501100003407; 10.13039/501100000780;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
13 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Contract/Grant/Project number
20179ZF5KS
Notes
Contact Email: vittorio.desposito@unina.it; Contact Email: giulia.gubitosi@unina.it; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca; European Commission