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Volume 119, Number 6, September 2017
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| Article Number | 61001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/119/61001 | |
| Published online | 30 November 2017 | |
A QFT-induced phase in neutrino flavour oscillations
1 Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati - Guwahati 781039, Assam, India
2 Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Centre of Excellence, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Dr TMA Pai Planetarium Building, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India
Received: 28 July 2017
Accepted: 10 November 2017
In the extended Standard Model of particle physics, each neutrino mass eigenstate is predicted to have a tiny but non-vanishing magnetic moment induced by quantum field-theoretic corrections. These QFT-induced magnetic moments depend linearly on the masses of the underlying mass eigenstates with a proportionality constant 
. As a consequence when neutrinos are embedded in an environment containing magnetic fields the flavour oscillations get a contribution from the induced relative phases.
PACS: 14.60.Pq – Neutrino mass and mixing / 13.15.+g – Neutrino interactions
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