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Oscillations of Mössbauer neutrinos

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Akhmedov,  Evgeny
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Kopp,  Joachim
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Lindner,  Manfred
Division Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Akhmedov, E., Kopp, J., & Lindner, M. (2008). Oscillations of Mössbauer neutrinos. Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP05(2008): 005, pp. 1-33. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/005.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-798A-1
Abstract
We calculate the probability of recoilless emission and detection of neutrinos (Mössbauer effect with neutrinos) taking into account the boundedness of the parent and daughter nuclei in the neutrino source and detector as well as the leptonic mixing. We show that, in spite of their near monochromaticity, the recoillessly emitted and captured neutrinos oscillate. After a qualitative discussion of this issue, we corroborate and extend our results by computing the combined rate of electron antineutrino production, propagation and detection in the framework of quantum field theory, starting from first principles. This allows us to avoid making any a priori assumptions about the energy and momentum of the intermediate-state neutrino. Our calculation permits quantitative predictions of the transition rate in future experiments, and shows that the decoherence and delocalization factors, which could in principle suppress neutrino oscillations, are irrelevant under realistic experimental conditions.