Article,
Collective neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in dense neutrino environments?
Affiliations
- [1] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, Niels Bohr Int Acad, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [NORA names: KU University of Copenhagen; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD];
- [2] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, Niels Bohr Int Acad, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark [NORA names: KU University of Copenhagen; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD];
- [3] Werner Heisenberg Inst, Max Planck Inst Phys, Boltzmannstr 8, D-85748 Garching, Germany [NORA names: Germany; Europe, EU; OECD];
- [4] Univ Hamburg, Inst Theoret Phys 2, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany [NORA names: Germany; Europe, EU; OECD]
Abstract
The paradigm -changing possibility of collective neutrino -antineutrino oscillations was recently advanced in analogy to collective flavor oscillations. However, the amplitude for the backward scattering process vP1v over bar P2 -> vP2 no off -diagonal refractive index between v and v over bar of a single flavor of massless neutrinos. For a nonvanishing mass, collective helicity oscillations are possible, representing de facto v - v over bar oscillations in the Majorana case. However, such phenomena are suppressed by the smallness of neutrino masses as discussed in the previous literature. v over bar P1 is helicity suppressed and vanishes for massless neutrinos, implying that there is