Wave packet treatment of neutrino flavor oscillations in various spacetimes
arXiv:2111.01441 · doi:10.1007/s10714-021-02872-6
Abstract
We study the effect of gravity on neutrino flavor oscillations when each mass eigenstate is described by a wave packet instead of a plane wave. Two different approaches for implementing the wave packet formalism in the study of neutrino flavor oscillations in curved spacetime are examined. We work with a general static and spherically symmetric spacetime before applying our results to a few spacetime metrics of interest. We first focus on general relativity by examining the effect of the exterior and interior Schwarzschild solutions, as well as the de Sitter-Schwarzschild metric, and then we examine selected metrics from modified gravity models.
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