TeV Neutrinos in a dense medium

Abstract

The dispersion relation of energetic (few TeV) neutrinos traversing a medium is studied. We use the real time formalism of thermal field theory and we include the effects from the propagator of the W gauge boson. We consider then the MSW oscillations for cosmic neutrinos traversing the Earth, adopting for the neutrino parameters values suggested by the LSND results. It is found that the ${\nu }_{\mu }$ flux, for neutrinos passing through the center of the Earth, will appear reduced by 15% for energies around 10 TeV.

12 pages, latex, 2 figures