Neutrino oscillations in a model with a source and detector

Ken Kiers; Nathan Weiss

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Neutrino oscillations in a model with a source and detector

Ken Kiers, Nathan Weiss

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 8 Oct 1997

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The authors' main claim We demonstrate that the conventional oscillation formula is correct in the relativistic limit and that several recent claims of an extra factor of 2 in the oscillation length are incorrect.

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We study the oscillations of neutrinos in a model in which the neutrino is coupled to a localized, idealized source and detector. By varying the spatial and temporal resolution of the source and detector we are able to model the full range of source and detector types ranging from coherent to incoherent. We find that this approach is useful in understanding the interface between the Quantum Mechanical nature of neutrino oscillations on the one hand and the production and detection systems on the other hand. This method can easily be extended to study the oscillations of other particles such as the neutral K and B mesons. We find that this approach gives a reliable way to treat the various ambiguities which arise when one examines the oscillations from a wave packet point of view. We demonstrate that the conventional oscillation formula is correct in the relativistic limit and that several recent claims of an extra factor of 2 in the oscillation length are incorrect. We also demonstrate explicitly that the oscillations of neutrinos which have separated spatially may be "revived" by a long coherent measurement.

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s6	We also demonstrate explicitly that the oscillations of neutrinos which have separated spatially may be "revived" by a long coherent measurement.	result 1.00	0.94	0.13	asserted 0.69

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We study the oscillations of neutrinos in a model in which the neutrino is coupled to a localized, idealized source and detector. By varying the spatial and temporal resolution of the source and detector we are able to model the full range of source and detector types ranging from coherent to incoherent. We find that this approach is useful in understanding the interface between the Quantum Mechanical nature of neutrino oscillations on the one hand and the production and detection systems on the other hand. This method can easily be extended to study the oscillations of other particles such as the neutral K and B mesons. We find that this approach gives a reliable way to treat the various ambiguities which arise when one examines the oscillations from a wave packet point of view. We demonstrate that the conventional oscillation formula is correct in the relativistic limit and that several recent claims of an extra factor of 2 in the oscillation length are incorrect. We also demonstrate explicitly that the oscillations of neutrinos which have separated spatially may be "revived" by a long coherent measurement.

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In this paper we contribute to this discussion by adopting the quantum field theoretical (QFT) approach to neutrino oscillations [ref] .

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The formulation of such a non-local S-matrix theory is that we wish to put forward in this paper$$[For other attempts along this research direction, see [ref] .].

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A considerable amount of work has been devoted to the quantum-field theoretical (QFT) analysis of spatial evolution of mixed massive neutrinos [ref] .

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In a quantum field theory calculation of the transition amplitudes, neutrinos propagating between the production and detection regions are considered as intermediate particles [ref] and are described by a (free field) propagator.

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