Published September 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Influence of flavor oscillations on neutrino beam instabilities

  • 1. Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo SP (Brazil)
  • 2. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre RS (Brazil)
  • 3. ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain and Instituto de Investigaciones Energeticas y Aplicaciones Industriales, Campus Universitario de Ciudad Real, 13071 Ciudad Real (Spain)

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We consider the collective neutrino plasma interactions and study the electron plasma instabilities produced by a nearly mono-energetic neutrino beam in a plasma. We describe the mutual interaction between neutrino flavor oscillations and electron plasma waves. We show that the neutrino flavor oscillations are not only perturbed by electron plasmas waves but also contribute to the dispersion relation and the growth rates of neutrino beam instabilities

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Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 092117-092117.6
ISSN
1070-664X
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