The study of the decay of an accelerated proton recently provided a theoretical proof of the Unruh effect. On the basis of general covariance of Quantum Field Theory, indeed, it was found that the decay rates in the inertial and comoving frames do coincide only when the thermal nature of the accelerated vacuum is taken into account. Such an analysis was then extended to the case with neutrino mixing. In this Letter, we show that, by further embedding neutrino oscillations in the above framework, general covariance necessarily entails the use of flavor neutrinos as asymptotic states, as well as the occurrence of neutrino oscillations in the Unruh thermal bath.
Neutrino oscillations in Unruh radiation
Blasone M.Membro del Collaboration Group
;Lambiase G.Membro del Collaboration Group
;Luciano G. G.Membro del Collaboration Group
;Petruzziello L.Membro del Collaboration Group
2020
Abstract
The study of the decay of an accelerated proton recently provided a theoretical proof of the Unruh effect. On the basis of general covariance of Quantum Field Theory, indeed, it was found that the decay rates in the inertial and comoving frames do coincide only when the thermal nature of the accelerated vacuum is taken into account. Such an analysis was then extended to the case with neutrino mixing. In this Letter, we show that, by further embedding neutrino oscillations in the above framework, general covariance necessarily entails the use of flavor neutrinos as asymptotic states, as well as the occurrence of neutrino oscillations in the Unruh thermal bath.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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