Published August 15, 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Neutrino oscillations in dense neutrino gases

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, The City College of New York, New York, New York 10031 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)

Description

We consider oscillations of neutrinos under conditions in which the neutrino density is sufficiently large that neutrino-neutrino interactions cannot be neglected. A formalism is developed to treat this highly nonlinear system. Numerical analysis reveals a rich array of phenomena. In certain gases, a self-induced Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect occurs in which electron neutrinos are resonantly converted into muon neutrinos. In another relatively low-density gas, an unexpected parametric resonant conversion takes place. Finally, neutrino-neutrino interactions maintain coherence in one system for which a priori one expected decoherence

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
48
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 1462-1477.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ