Equivalence between neutrino oscillations and neutrino decoherence
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Tommy Ohlsson∗ Institut für Theoretische Physik, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße, DE-85748 Garching bei München, Germany and Division of Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden (Dated: April 18, 2008) In this paper, we show that a Gaussian averaged neutrino oscillation model is equivalent to a neutrino decoherence model. Without loss of generality, the analysis is performed with two neutrino flavors. We also estimate the damping (or decoherence) parameter for atmospheric neutrinos and compare it to earlier obtained results.
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