Physics Colloquium

"A Real Time Quantum Field Theory Study of Neutrino Oscillations"

Presented by Jimmy Hutasoit, Carnegie-Mellon University

Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 3:30 pm — Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

I will describe how to study the dynamics of neutrino mixing and oscillations directly in real time. We start by noticing that in charged current weak interaction processes, neutrinos are produced in an entangled state with the charged lepton. This correlated state is disentangled by the measurement of the charged lepton in a detector at the production site. The appearance and disappearance far-detection processes are then described from the time evolution of this disentangled or “collapsed” state. I will also discuss how this real time formalism can also be used to see whether the so-called GSI anomaly is a result of the mixing of neutrino mass eigenstates.

Hosted by: Bill Morse

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