Experimental observation on neutrino oscillation confirms the fact that neutrinos have non-zero mass. Thus, there is a possibility of decaying heavy neutrinos to lighter ones. Additionally, due to some external factors (like environmental interactions, quantum mechanical uncertainty, quantum fluctuations, etc.), the quantum phases between the neutrino mass eigenstates lose their correlation, resulting in “quantum decoherence”. In our work, we explore the effect of both neutrino decay and quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillation, considering the open quantum system framework. The inclusion of neutrino decay in the Hamiltonian of neutrino oscillation changes the nature of the Hamiltonian from Hermitian to non-hermitian. On the other hand, the addition of decoherence makes the final Hamiltonian in a more complicated form. We formulate the appearance and disappearance probabilities in a three-flavour neutrino framework by considering both these effects.

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Exploring Some Aspects of Neutrino Decay and Decoherence in Neutrino Oscillation

  • Koushik Pal,
  • Papia Panda,
  • Rukmani Mohanta

摘要

Experimental observation on neutrino oscillation confirms the fact that neutrinos have non-zero mass. Thus, there is a possibility of decaying heavy neutrinos to lighter ones. Additionally, due to some external factors (like environmental interactions, quantum mechanical uncertainty, quantum fluctuations, etc.), the quantum phases between the neutrino mass eigenstates lose their correlation, resulting in “quantum decoherence”. In our work, we explore the effect of both neutrino decay and quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillation, considering the open quantum system framework. The inclusion of neutrino decay in the Hamiltonian of neutrino oscillation changes the nature of the Hamiltonian from Hermitian to non-hermitian. On the other hand, the addition of decoherence makes the final Hamiltonian in a more complicated form. We formulate the appearance and disappearance probabilities in a three-flavour neutrino framework by considering both these effects.