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Quantum-Gravity Decoherence Effects in Neutrino Oscillations: Expected Constraints From CNGS and J-PARC

Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum-gravity models. In most cases, such models lead to less neutrinos of all active flavours being detected in a long baseline experiment as compared to three-flavour standard neutrino oscillations. We discu...

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Autores principales: Mavromatos, Nick E., Meregaglia, Anselmo, Rubbia, Andre, Sakharov, Alexander, Sarkar, Sarben
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.053014
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1079459
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Sumario:Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum-gravity models. In most cases, such models lead to less neutrinos of all active flavours being detected in a long baseline experiment as compared to three-flavour standard neutrino oscillations. We discuss the potential of the CNGS and J-PARC beams in constraining models of quantum-gravity induced decoherence using neutrino oscillations as a probe. We use as much as possible model-independent parameterizations, even though they are motivated by specific microscopic models, for fits to the expected experimental data which yield bounds on quantum-gravity decoherence parameters.