An Analytic Approach to the Wave Packet Formalism in Oscillation Phenomena

Abstract

We introduce an approximation scheme to perform an analytic study of the oscillation phenomena in a pedagogical and comprehensive way. By using Gaussian wave packets, we show that the oscillation is bounded by a time-dependent vanishing function which characterizes the slippage between the mass-eigenstate wave packets. We also demonstrate that the wave packet spreading represents a secondary effect which plays a significant role only in the non-relativistic limit. In our analysis, we note the presence of a new time-dependent phase and calculate how this additional term modifies the oscillating character of the flavor conversion formula. Finally, by considering Box and Sine wave packets we study how the choice of different functions to describe the particle localization changes the oscillation probability.

16 pages, 7 figures, AMS-TeX

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