Recommendations to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on a Future U.S Program in Neutrino Oscillations Report to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee and the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Submitted by the Neutrino Scientific Assessment Group

Recommendations to the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on a Future U.S Program in Neutrino Oscillations Report to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee and the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Submitted by the Neutrino Scientific Assessment Group

What is coherent in neutrino oscillations

Simple rigorous quantum mechanics with no hand waving nor loopholes clarifies the confusion between three contradictory descriptions of neutrino oscillations: (1)The time oscillations shown in standard textbooks produced by neutrino eigenstates with different masses and different energies. (2) That time oscillations and interference between states having different energies cannot be observed in...

Quantum Mechanics of Neutrino Detectors Determine Coherence and Phases in Oscillation Experiments

The apparent symmetry between energy and momentum found in all covariant descriptions of neutrino oscillations is destroyed in the neutrino detector, a quantum mechanical system described by a density matrix diagonal in energy but not in momentum. The off diagonal matrix elements between states of different momenta and the same energy produce the coherence and interference between mass eigensta...

Stodolsky’s Theorem and Neutrino Oscillation Phases – for pedestrians

Neutrino oscillations are experimentally observable only as a result of interference between neutrino states with different masses and THE SAME ENERGY. All interference effects between neutrino states having different energies are destroyed by the intereaction between the incident neutrino and the neutrino detector. Erroneous results are frequently obtained by neglecting the neutrino-detector i...

Report of the US long baseline neutrino experiment study

This report provides the results of an extensive and important study of the potential for a U.S. scientific program that will extend our knowledge of neutrino oscillations well beyond what can be anticipated from ongoing and planned experiments worldwide. The program examined here has the potential to provide the U.S. particle physics community with world leading experimental capability in this...