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级联衰变中的近简并重无菌中微子:混合和振荡

Nearly degenerate heavy sterile neutrinos in cascade decay: mixing and oscillations

Daniel Boyanovsky

摘要:

一些超越标准模型的扩展提出了近简并的重无菌中微子的存在。如果运动学允许,它们可以共振地产生并级联衰减到共同的最终状态。共同的衰变通道导致了重无菌中微子态的混合和干涉效应。我们实施非微扰的方法来研究级联衰变到共同的最终状态,其特点的相似性,但也值得注意的中性介子混合的情况下的差异的动态。我们发现,近简并的不育中微子之间的混合和振荡,可以检测到\emph{quantum beats}在其衰变产生的末态分布。这些振荡可能是重的惰性中微子混合的信号。我们详细研究了赝标介子衰变中产生的两个近简并的不育中微子衰变到一个纯轻子的“可见”通道:$ν_h \rightarrow e^+ e^- ν_a$。讨论了中微子有效数$N_{eff}$的宇宙学意义。

英文摘要:

Some extensions beyond the Standard Model propose the existence of nearly degenerate heavy sterile neutrinos. If kinematically allowed these can be resonantly produced and decay in a cascade to common final states. The common decay channels lead to mixing of the heavy sterile neutrino states and interference effects. We implement non-perturbative methods to study the dynamics of the cascade decay to common final states, which features similarities but also noteworthy differences with the case of neutral meson mixing. We show that mixing and oscillations among the nearly degenerate sterile neutrinos can be detected as \emph{quantum beats} in the distribution of final states produced from their decay. These oscillations would be a telltale signal of mixing between heavy sterile neutrinos. We study in detail the case of two nearly degenerate sterile neutrinos produced in the decay of pseudoscalar mesons and decaying into a purely leptonic "visible" channel: $ν_h \rightarrow e^+ e^- ν_a$. Possible cosmological implications for the effective number of neutrinos $N_{eff}$ are discussed.

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