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| author | de Holanda, Pedro Cunha Filho, Macello Jales de Carvalho Fonseca da Silva, Eduardo Walter |
| author_facet | de Holanda, Pedro Cunha Filho, Macello Jales de Carvalho Fonseca da Silva, Eduardo Walter |
| contents | As is widely known, the flavour and mass eigenbasis in neutrino sector can be related by a reduced unitary matrix, described by 3 real parameters and one phase, for Dirac neutrinos, and 2 extra phases if neutrinos are Majorana particles. Neutrino flavour oscillation experiments are insensitive to Majorana phases, which leads to using the PMNS matrix with only one phase to describe flavour transitions. In this paper, we point out one feature of such choice that is commonly ignored: when neutrinos propagate in matter, the reduced unitary matrix PMNS does not properly diagonalize the neutrino system. We present some numerical calculations and analytical estimations to illustrate such statement, and discuss some scenarios where this effect can be probed. |
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| spellingShingle | About Matter Effects on Neutrino Mixing Matrix Phases de Holanda, Pedro Cunha Filho, Macello Jales de Carvalho Fonseca da Silva, Eduardo Walter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology As is widely known, the flavour and mass eigenbasis in neutrino sector can be related by a reduced unitary matrix, described by 3 real parameters and one phase, for Dirac neutrinos, and 2 extra phases if neutrinos are Majorana particles. Neutrino flavour oscillation experiments are insensitive to Majorana phases, which leads to using the PMNS matrix with only one phase to describe flavour transitions. In this paper, we point out one feature of such choice that is commonly ignored: when neutrinos propagate in matter, the reduced unitary matrix PMNS does not properly diagonalize the neutrino system. We present some numerical calculations and analytical estimations to illustrate such statement, and discuss some scenarios where this effect can be probed. |
| title | About Matter Effects on Neutrino Mixing Matrix Phases |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18433 |