Investigating Leggett-Garg inequality in neutrino oscillations -- role of decoherence and decay

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12726v2
• Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:12:20 GMT
• Title: Investigating Leggett-Garg inequality in neutrino oscillations -- role of decoherence and decay
• Authors: Sheeba Shafaq, Tanmay Kushwaha, Poonam Mehta
• Abstract summary: Neutrinos provide us with a unique opportunity to test foundations of quantum mechanics over macroscopic distances. Sub-dominant effects due to physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) are not yet ruled out.
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• Abstract: Neutrinos, due to their weakly interacting nature, provide us with a unique opportunity to test foundations of quantum mechanics over macroscopic distances. There has been considerable theoretical and experimental interest in examining the extent of violation of Leggett-Garg inequalities (LGI) in the context of neutrino flavour oscillations. While it is established that neutrino oscillations occur due to mass and mixing among the three generations of neutrinos, sub-dominant effects due to physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) are not yet ruled out. As we are entering the precision era in neutrino physics, it is possible that some of these effects may leave an imprint on data. Thus, it is worthwhile to investigate different physics scenarios beyond the SM and study their impact on oscillation probabilities. In the present work, we invoke damping effects (including decoherence and decay) on oscillation probabilities and study their implications on the LGI.

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