Black hole interference patterns in flavor oscillations
Physical Review D American Physical Society 98:4 (2018) 043004
Abstract:
Motivated by neutrino astronomy, we consider a plane wave of coupled and massive flavors, scattered by a static black hole, and describe analytically and numerically the corresponding oscillation probability in the surrounding space. Both the interpretation as particles traveling along geodesics and as scattered waves are studied, and consistently show a nontrivial and potentially long range interference pattern, in contrast to the spatially uniform transition probability in a flat spacetime. We introduce a numerical method for studying the oscillations around black holes, which accounts for the full curved geometry and flavor wave mixing. Whilst limited to the region immediately around the black hole, this numerical approach has the potential to be used in more general contexts, revealing the complex interference patterns which defy analytic methods.Robustness of inflation to large tensor perturbations
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