On the impossibility to distinguish MSW transitions from vacuum oscillations for neutrino maximal mixing

1996/01/31 by S. M. Bilenky, Bilenky, S. M., C. Giunti +1
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure #Neutrino Physics Research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9601389

RevTeX file, 4 pages. The postscript file is available at http://www.to.infn.it/teorici/giunti/papers.html Two misprints in Eq.(8) are corrected

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Abstract

We show in a simple and general way that MSW resonant transitions for solar neutrinos are not observable in the case of maximal mixing among any number of neutrino generations.

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