Neutrino mixing due to a violation of the equivalence principle.

نویسندگان

  • Pantaleone
  • Halprin
  • Leung
چکیده

Massless neutrinos will mix if their couplings to gravity are flavor dependent, i.e., violate the principle of equivalence. Because the gravitational interaction grows with neutrino energy, the solar neutrino problem and the recent atmospheric neutrino data may be simultaneously explained by violations at the level of 10 to 10 or smaller. This possibility is severely constrained by present accelerator neutrino experiments and will be preeminently tested in proposed long baseline accelerator neutrino experiments.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review. D, Particles and fields

دوره 47 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1993