Inertial effects on neutrino oscillations and decoherence: A wave packet approach

Abstract

We study the impact of inertial effects on neutrino oscillations and decoherence. Toward this end, we describe the propagation of neutrino wave packets by employing the density matrix formalism. We show that the acceleration and angular velocity of the observer's reference frame significantly influence neutrino coherence, the effects being in principle testable in strong regime.

Keywords

• Neutrino oscillations
• Decoherence
• Inertial effects
• Wave packets