The Violation of Equivalence Principle and Four Neutrino Oscillations for Long Baseline Neutrinos

Abstract

Violation of equivalence principle predicts that neutrinos of different flavor couple differently with gravity. Such a scenario can give rise to gravity induced flavor oscillations in addition to the usual mass flavor neutrino oscillations during the neutrino propagation. Even if the equivalence principle is indeed violated, their measure will be extremely small. We explore the possibility to probe the violation of equivalence principle (VEP) for the case of long baseline (LBL) neutrinos in a 4-flavor neutrino framework (3 active + 1 sterile) where both mass and gravity induced oscillations are considered. To this end, we have explicitly calculated the oscillation probability in 4-flavor framework that includes in addition to the mass-flavor mixing in matter, the gravity-flavor mixing also. The energy eigenvalues are then obtained by diagonalizing such a 4-flavor mixing matrix. The formalism is then employed to estimate the wrong and right sign muon yields at a far detector for neutrinos produced in a neutrino factory and travel through the Earth matter. These results are compared with the similar estimations when the usual three active neutrinos are considered.

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