2015/01/28 by Douglas Singleton, Nader Inan, R. Y. Chiao +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum decoherence #Quantum mechanics #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2015.01.028
published as Phys.Lett. A379 (2015) 941-946 · 15 pages revtex, 0 figures, to be published Phys. Lett. A
openalex publication_date 2015/01/28 · arxiv created 2015/01/30 · arxiv updated 2015/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Recent work has proposed that the interaction between ordinary matter and a stochastic gravitational background can lead to the decoherence of large aggregates of ordinary matter. In this work we point out that these arguments can be carried over to a stochastic neutrino background but with the Planck scale of the gravitational decoherence replaced by the weak scale. This implies that it might be possible to observe such neutrino induced decoherence on a small, microscopic system rather than a macroscopic system as is the case for gravitationally induced decoherence. In particular we suggest that neutrino decoherence could be linked with observed variations in the decay rates of certain nuclei. Finally we point out that this proposed neutrino induced decoherence can be considered the complement of the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein (MSW) effect.