Reproducing sterile neutrinos and the behavior of flavor oscillations with superconducting-magnetic proximity effects [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00913


The physics of a superconductor subjected to a magnetic field is known to be equivalent to neutrino oscillations. Examining the properties of singlet-triplet oscillations in the magnetic field, a sterile neutrino–shown to be a Majorana fermion–is suggested to be represented by singlet Cooper pairs and moderates flavor oscillations between three flavor neutrinos (triplet Cooper pairs). A superconductor-exchange spring system’s rotating magnetization profile is used to simulate the mass-flavor oscillations in the neutrino case and the physics of neutrino oscillations are discussed. Symmetry protected triplet components are presented as weak process states. Phases acquired due to the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov effect produce a complex phase that may be responsible for charge-parity violation in flavor oscillations.

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T. Baker
Wed, 6 Jan 16
31/43

Comments: 14 pages, 6 figures