Mixing and oscillations of neutral particles in Quantum Field Theory

Abstract

We study the mixing of neutral particles in Quantum Field Theory: neutral boson field and Majorana field are treated in the case of mixing among two generations. We derive the orthogonality of flavor and mass representations and show how to consistently calculate oscillation formulas, which agree with previous results for charged fields and exhibit corrections with respect to the usual quantum mechanical expressions.

8 pages, revised version

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• Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics
• Neutrino oscillations from relativistic flavor currents
• Fermion mixing in quasi-free states

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