Effect of Matter Motion and Polarization in Neutrino Flavour Oscillations.pdfVIP

Effect of matter motion and 2 polarization in neutrino flavour 0 0 2 oscillations y a M A. Grigoriev, A. Lobanov, A. Studenikin∗ 3 2 2 v Moscow State University, 6 Department of Theoretical physics, 7 2 119992 Moscow, Russia 2 0 Abstract 2 0 The Lorentz invariant formalism for description of neutrino flavour / h oscillations in moving and polarized matter is developed. It is shown p - that the neutrino effective potential, which determines the effective p mass difference between neutrinos in matter can be significantly changed e h by relativistic motion of matter. In the case of matter motion parallel : to neutrino propagation, matter effects in neutrino flavour oscillations v i are suppressed. In the case of relativistic motion of matter in the X opposite direction substantial increase of effects of matter in neutrino r a oscillations is predicted. The dependence of the matter term in neu- trino effective potential on the values and correlations of the three vectors, the neutrino and matter speeds and matter polarization, is discussed in detail. The problem of neutrino propagation in matter, starting from the paper of Wolfenstein [1], is still under intensive study. One of the most famous results in this field was obtained by Mikheyev and Smirnov [2] who showed that there