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Quantum decoherence and relaxation in long-baseline neutrino data

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Autor(es):
Gomes, A. L. G. ; Gomes, R. A. ; Peres, O. L. G.
Número total de Autores: 3
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: Journal of High Energy Physics; v. N/A, n. 10, p. 28-pg., 2023-10-05.
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We investigate the effect of quantum decoherence and relaxation in neutrino oscillations using MINOS and T2K data. The formalism of open quantum systems is used to describe the interaction of a neutrino system with the environment, where the strength of the interaction is regulated by a decoherence parameter Gamma. We assume an energy dependence parameterized by Gamma = gamma(0)(E/GeV)(n), with n = -2, 0, +2, and consider three different scenarios, allowing the investigation of the effect of relaxation and of constraining the solar and atmospheric sectors to the same decoherence parameter. The MINOS and T2K data present a complementary behavior, with regard to our theoretical model, resulting in a better sensitivity for n = +2 and n = -2, respectively. We perform a combined analyses of both experimental data, which also include a reactor constraint on sin(2)theta(13), and observe an independence of the results to the scenarios we investigate. Our analyses obtain limits on gamma 0 based on long-baseline data for scenarios allowing or not relaxation. We improve some previous bounds on gamma 0 and outline which data (solar, reactor, atmospheric, long-baseline) determine the more stringent constraints for different scenarios and energy dependencies. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 14/19164-6 - Desafios para o século XXI em física e astrofísica de neutrinos
Beneficiário:Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Projetos Especiais
Processo FAPESP: 16/08308-2 - 38th International Conference for High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016)
Beneficiário:Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Reunião - Exterior