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Flavor oscillation of traveling neutrinos is treated by solving the one-dimensional Dirac equation for massive fermions. The solutions are given in terms of squeezed coherent state as mutual eigenfunctions of parity operator and the corresponding Hamiltonian, both represented in bosonic creation and annihilation operators. It was shown that a mono-energetic state is non-normalizable, and a normalizable Gaussian wave packet, when of pure parity, cannot propagate. A physical state for a traveling neutrino beam would be represented as a normalizable Gaussian wave packet of equally-weighted mixing of two parities, which has the largest energy-dependent velocity. Based on this wave-packet representation, flavor oscillation of traveling neutrinos can be treated in a strict sense. These results allow the accurate interpretation of experimental data for neutrino oscillation, which is critical in judging whether neutrino oscillation violates CP symmetry.
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The wave-packet treatment of neutrino oscillation developed previously is extended to the case in which momentum distribution functions are taken to be a Gaussian form with both central values and dispersions depending on the mass eigenstates of the neutrinos. It is shown among other things that the velocity of the neutrino wave packets does not in general agree with what one would expect classically and that relativistic neutrinos emitted from pions nevertheless do follow, to a good approximation, the classical trajectory.
The disappearance of reactor $bar{ u}_e$ observed by the Daya Bay experiment is examined in the framework of a model in which the neutrino is described by a wave packet with a relative intrinsic momentum dispersion $sigma_text{rel}$. Three pairs of nuclear reactors and eight antineutrino detectors, each with good energy resolution, distributed among three experimental halls, supply a high-statistics sample of $bar{ u}_e$ acquired at nine different baselines. This provides a unique platform to test the effects which arise from the wave packet treatment of neutrino oscillation. The modified survival probability formula was used to fit Daya Bay data, providing the first experimental limits: $2.38 cdot 10^{-17} < sigma_{rm rel} < 0.23$. Treating the dimensions of the reactor cores and detectors as constraints, the limits are improved: $10^{-14} lesssim sigma_{rm rel} < 0.23$, and an upper limit of $sigma_{rm rel} <0.20$ is obtained. All limits correspond to a 95% C.L. Furthermore, the effect due to the wave packet nature of neutrino oscillation is found to be insignificant for reactor antineutrinos detected by the Daya Bay experiment thus ensuring an unbiased measurement of the oscillation parameters $sin^22theta_{13}$ and $Delta m^2_{32}$ within the plane wave model.
Kinematical aspects of pion decay $pi to mu u$ is studied, with neutrino mixing taken into account. An attempt is made to derive the transition probability for such a sequence of processes: a $pi^+$ produced at $(vec{x}_{pi},t_{pi})$ with momentum $vec{p}_{pi}$ decays into a $mu^+$ and a $ u_{mu}$ somewhere in space-time and then the $mu^+$ is detected at $(vec{x}_{mu},t_{mu})$ with momentum $vec{p}_{mu}$ and a $ u_{alpha}$ (a neutrino with flavor $alpha = e$, $mu$, $...$) is detected at $(vec{x}_{ u},t_{ u})$ with momentum $vec{p}_{ u}$. It is shown that (1) if all the particles involved are treated as plane-waves, the energy-momentum conservation would eliminate the neutrino oscillating terms, leaving each mass-eigenstate to contribute separately to the transition probability; (2) if one treats all the particles involved as wave-packets, the neutrino oscillating terms would appear and would be multiplied by two suppression factors, which result from distinction in velocity and in energy between the two interfering neutrino mass-eigenstates. An approximate treatment which takes account of the two complementary features, each of the particles involved propagates along its classical trajectory on the one hand and energies and momenta of the particles involved are conserved during the decay on the other hand, is proposed and similarity and difference between our approach and that of Dolgov et al. are discussed.
A solution for the neutrino mass and mixing pattern is proposed which is compatible with all available experimental data on neutrino oscillations. This solution involves Majorana neutrinos of the pseudo-Dirac type, i.e. m_Majorana << m_Dirac. The solar and atmospheric neutrino observations are mainly explained as nu_e - nu_e^S and nu_mu - nu_mu^S oscillations, where S indicates the sterile (``righthanded) partner of each neutrino generation, while the LSND result is interpreted in terms of standard nu_mu - nu_e oscillations. The resulting constraints on nu_mu - nu_tau and nu_tau - nu_tau^S oscillations are also discussed. This solution leaves room for a hierarchical mass and mixing scheme with a nu_tau mass in the few eV range, as favoured by some dark matter scenarios. The apparent conflict with standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis is addressed and the implications for current and future experiments are discussed. It is argued that both short and long baseline accelerator neutrino experiments are needed in order to decide between this solution and other oscillation scenarios.
By viewing the electron as a wavepacket in the positive energy spectrum of the Dirac equation, we are able to achieve a much clearer understanding of its behavior under weak electromagnetic fields. The intrinsic spin magnetic moment is found to be established from the self-rotation of the wavepacket. A non-canonical structure is also exhibited in the equations of motion due to non- Abelian geometric phases of the Dirac spinors. The wavepacket energy can be expressed simply in terms of the kinetic, electrostatic, and Zeeman terms only. This can be transformed into an effective quantum Hamiltonian by a novel scheme, and reproduces the Pauli Hamiltonian with all-order relativistic corrections.
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