Published 2022 | Version v1
Journal article

Effects of gravitational lensing on neutrino oscillation in γ-spacetime

  • 1. School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 781039, Assam (India)
  • 3. Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, 39 Kori Niyoziy st., 100000, Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • 4. National University of Uzbekistan, 100174, Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • 5. Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Astronomy St 33, 100052, Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • 6. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, 80 Nandan Road, 200030, Shanghai (China)
  • 7. Department of Physics, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, 010000, Astana (Kazakhstan)

Description

We study the effects of gravitational lensing on neutrino oscillations in the γ-spacetime which describes a static, axially-symmetric and asymptotically flat solution of the Einstein's field equations in vacuum. Using the quantum-mechanical treatment for relativistic neutrinos, we calculate the phase of neutrino oscillations in this spacetime by considering both radial and non-radial propagation. We show the dependence of the oscillation probability on the absolute neutrino masses, which in the two-flavour case also depends upon the sign of mass squared difference, in sharp contrast with the well-known results of vacuum oscillation in flat spacetime. We also show the effects of the deformation parameter γ on neutrino oscillations and reproduce previously known results for the Schwarzschild metric. We then extend these to a more realistic three flavours neutrino scenario and study the effects of the parameter γ and the lightest neutrino mass while using best fit values of neutrino oscillation parameters.

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09982-0

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
1434-6052
CODEN
EPCFFB

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