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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Title: Neutrino many-body flavor evolution: the full Hamiltonian

Abstract: We study neutrino flavor evolution in the quantum many-body approach using the full neutrino-neutrino Hamiltonian, including the usually neglected terms that mediate non-forward scattering processes. Working in the occupation number representation with plane waves as single-particle states, we explore the time evolution of simple initial states with up to $N=10$ neutrinos. We discuss the time evolution of the Loschmidt echo, one body flavor and kinetic observables, and the one-body entanglement entropy. For the small systems considered, we observe `thermalization' of both flavor and momentum degrees of freedom on comparable time scales, with results converging towards expectation values computed within a microcanonical ensemble. We also observe that the inclusion of non-forward processes generates a faster flavor evolution compared to the one induced by the truncated (forward) Hamiltonian.
Comments: 21 pages, 16 figures
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Report number: INT-PUB-24-015
Cite as: arXiv:2404.16690 [hep-ph]
  (or arXiv:2404.16690v1 [hep-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Yukari Yamauchi [view email]
[v1] Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:50:16 GMT (1335kb,D)

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