Flavor neutrino oscillations in matter moving with acceleration

TL;DR

This paper investigates how neutrino flavor oscillations are affected by matter moving with acceleration, developing a unified approach applicable to both non-relativistic and relativistic cases, with potential astrophysical implications.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to analyze neutrino oscillations in accelerating matter, extending previous models to include acceleration effects and rotating matter scenarios.

Findings

Derived effective neutrino potentials in accelerating matter.

Established resonance conditions for oscillations in accelerated matter.

Reproduced known results in the zero acceleration limit.

Abstract

A short review on studies of neutrino flavor oscillations in moving with a constant speed matter is presented. Then neutrino flavor oscillations in matter moving with acceleration are considered. We develop an approach that is valid for both non-relativistic and relativistic matter motion. For both these cases the effective neutrino potentials in accelerating matter are obtained and neutrino flavor oscillation probabilities and the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein resonance conditions are evaluated. The obtained results in the limit of zero matter acceleration reproduce the corresponding expressions for the case of matter at rest. The developed approach is applied for neutrino flavor oscillations in the case of rotating matter. The results obtained might be of interest for astrophysical applications.