Phys. Rev. D 71, 013003 (2005) [8 pages]Dissipative neutrino oscillations in randomly fluctuating matterReceived 3 September 2004; published 6 January 2005 The generalized dynamics describing the propagation of neutrinos in randomly fluctuating media is analyzed: It takes into account matter-induced, decoherence phenomena that go beyond the standard Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effect. A widely adopted density fluctuation pattern is found to be physically untenable: A more general model needs to be instead considered, leading to flavor changing effective neutrino-matter interactions. They induce new, dissipative effects that modify the neutrino oscillation pattern in a way amenable to a direct experimental analysis. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.013003
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.013003
PACS:
14.60.Pq, 03.65.Ca, 03.65.Yz
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