Neutrino oscillation caused by spacetime geometry
arXiv:2302.10119 · doi:10.31526/lhep.2023.349
Abstract
Effects of gravitational interaction are generally neglected in particle physics. A first order formulation of gravity is presented to include gravity in Quantum Mechanical Lagrangian of fermions. It is seen that fermions minimally coupled to gravity gives rise to a torsionless effective theory with a quartic interaction. After passing through a thermal background the most generic form of contortion contributes to neutrino effective mass. This effective mass can change the current oscillation parameters.
Based on talk delivered by Indrajit Ghose at the International Conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter (NuDM-2022), Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 25-28 September, 2022