Neutrino oscillations in a Robertson-Walker universe with space-time foam

J. Alexandre, K. Farakos, N. E. Mavromatos, and P. Pasipoularides
Phys. Rev. D 79, 107701 – Published 4 May 2009

Abstract

In [J. Alexandre, K. Farakos, N. E. Mavromatos, and P. Pasipoularides, Phys. Rev. D 77, 105001 (2008).] we have studied decoherence models for flavor oscillations in four-dimensional stochastically-fluctuating space times and discussed briefly the sensitivity of current terrestrial and astrophysical neutrino experiments to such models. In this addendum we extend these results to incorporate the effects due to the expansion of the Universe, so that our analysis can be useful in studies of extragalactic high-energy neutrinos, such as those coming from gamma ray bursts at cosmological distances. Unfortunately for some microscopic models of foam, constructed in the string theory framework, we arrive at pessimistic conclusions about the detectability of the decoherence effects via flavor-oscillation measurements.

  • Received 23 February 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.107701

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. Alexandre

  • Kings’s College London, Department of Physics, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.

K. Farakos

  • Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece

N. E. Mavromatos

  • Kings’s College London, Department of Physics, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.

P. Pasipoularides

  • Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 157 80 Athens, Greece

See Also

Neutrino oscillations in a stochastic model for space-time foam

J. Alexandre, K. Farakos, N. E. Mavromatos, and P. Pasipoularides
Phys. Rev. D 77, 105001 (2008)

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Vol. 79, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2009

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