Investigating Leggett-Garg inequality in neutrino oscillations -- role of decoherence and decay

Autor:	Shafaq, Sheeba, Kushwaha, Tanmay, Mehta, Poonam
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Quantum Physics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Neutrinos, due to their weakly interacting nature, provide us with a unique opportunity to test foundations of quantum mechanics over macroscopic distances. There has been considerable theoretical and experimental interest in examining the extent of violation of Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGI) in the context of neutrino flavour oscillations. While it is established that neutrino oscillations occur due to mass and mixing among the three generations of neutrinos, sub-dominant effects due to physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) are not yet ruled out. As we are entering the precision era in neutrino physics, it is possible that some of these effects may leave an imprint on data. Thus, it is worthwhile to investigate different physics scenarios beyond the SM and study their impact on oscillation probabilities. In the present work, we invoke damping effects (including decoherence and decay) on oscillation probabilities and study their implications on the LGI. Comment: v2: typos corrected and 2 new references included
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12726 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv