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Exact solution to neutrino-plasma two-flavor dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

FERNANDO HAAS  and
JOSÉ T. MENDONÇA
FERNANDO HAAS
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, 81531-990, Brazil (ferhaas@hotmail.com)
JOSÉ T. MENDONÇA
Affiliation:
IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
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Abstract

It is shown that the two-flavor neutrino oscillation equations admit an exact analytic solution for arbitrarily chosen normalized electron neutrino population, provided the electron plasma density is adjusted in a certain way. The associated formula for the electron plasma density is applied to the cases of exponentially decaying or oscillating electron neutrino populations.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Special Issue 6: Special issue in memory of Professor Padma Kant Shukla 1950-2013 , December 2013 , pp. 991 - 993
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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