Mixing and oscillations of neutral particles in quantum field theory

2003/05/31 by Massimo Blasone, Jonathan Palmer, Jonathan S. Palmer · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.69.057301

published as Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 057301 · 8 pages, revised version

arxiv created 2003/06/10 · openalex publication_date 2004/03/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study the mixing of neutral particles in quantum field theory: the neutral boson field and Majorana field are treated in the case of mixing among two generations. We derive the orthogonality of flavor and mass representations and show how to consistently calculate oscillation formulas, which agree with previous results for charged fields and exhibit corrections with respect to the usual quantum mechanical expressions.

Citations

• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
• Neutrino oscillations from relativistic flavor currents
• General theory of quantum field mixing

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