A Simple General Treatment of Flavor Oscillations
| dc.creator | Grossman, Yuval | |
| dc.creator | Lipkin, Harry J. | |
| dc.date | 1996-06-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:59:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:59:24Z | |
| dc.description | A unique description avoiding confusion is presented for all flavor-oscillation experiments in which particles of a definite flavor are emitted from a localized source. The probability for finding a particle with the wrong flavor must vanish at the position of the source for all times. This condition requires flavor-time and flavor-energy factorizations which determine uniquely the flavor mixture observed at a detector in the oscillation region; i.e. where the overlaps between the wave packets for different mass eigenstates differ negligibly from 100\%. The translation of a ``gedanken'' experiments calculations (where measurement is perform in time) is done using the {\it group} velocity. Energy-momentum (frequency-wave number) and space-time descriptions are complementary, equally valid and give the same results. The two identical phase shifts obtained describe the same physics; adding them together to get a factor of two is double counting. | |
| dc.description | 12 pages, revtex, no figures. Talk given by Harry J. Lipkin at the 18th annual MRST meeting, Toronto, May 9-10, 1996 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9606315 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9606315 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/46215 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | A Simple General Treatment of Flavor Oscillations | |
| dc.type | text |