Wave packet description of Majorana neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02804v1
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:02:34 GMT
- Title: Wave packet description of Majorana neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field
- Authors: Artem Popov, Alexander Studenikin, Alexander Tcvirov,
- Abstract summary: Majorana neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field are considered using the wave packets formalism.<n>The modified Dirac equation for Majorana neutrinos with non-zero transition magnetic moments propagating in a magnetic field is solved analytically.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Majorana neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field are considered using the wave packets formalism. The modified Dirac equation for Majorana neutrinos with non-zero transition magnetic moments propagating in a magnetic field is solved analytically in the two flavour case. The expressions for the oscillations probabilities are derived accounting for the decoherence effect emerging at distances exceeding the coherence length. It is shown that for Majorana neutrinos propagating in a magnetic field the coherence length coincides with the coherence length for neutrino oscillations in vacuum when the vacuum frequency is much greater than the magnetic frequency ($ω_{vac} \gg ω_B$), while it is proportional to the cube of the average neutrino momentum if ($ω_{vac} \ll ω_B$). We show that the decoherence effect may appear during neutrino propagation in a magnetic field of supernova.
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