Neutrinos in a Vacuum Dominated Cosmology
dc.contributor.author | Mbonye, Manasse R. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T14:50:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T14:50:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Mbonye, Manasse R.; (2002). "Neutrinos in a Vacuum Dominated Cosmology." General Relativity and Gravitation 34(11): 1865-1875. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44473> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0001-7701 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-9532 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/44473 | |
dc.description.abstract | We explore the dynamics of neutrinos in a vacuum dominated cosmology. First we show that such a geometry will induce a phase change in the eigenstates of a massive neutrino and we calculate the phase change. We also calculate the delay in the neutrino flight times in this geometry. Applying our results to the presently observed background vacuum energy density, we find that for neutrino sources further than 1.5 Gpc away both effects become non-trivial, being of the order of the standard relativistic corrections. Such sources are within the observable Hubble Deep Field. The results which are theoretically interesting are also potentially useful, in the future, as detection techniques improve. For example such effects on neutrinos from distant sources like supernovae could be used, in an independent method alternative to standard candles, to constrain the dark energy density and the deceleration parameter. The discussion is extended to investigate Caianiello's inertial or maximal acceleration (MA) effects of such a vacuum dominated spacetime on neutrino oscillations. Assuming that the MA phenomenon exists, we find that its form as generated by the presently observed vacuum energy density would still have little or no measurable effect on neutrino phase evolution, for neutrinos in the energy range of a few eV . | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Mathematical and Computational Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Background Vacuum Energy | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Differential Geometry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Relativity and Cosmology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Neutrino Oscillations | en_US |
dc.title | Neutrinos in a Vacuum Dominated Cosmology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mathematics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44473/1/10714_2004_Article_453341.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020768125199 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | General Relativity and Gravitation | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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