Decoerência quântica em neutrinos de aceleradores

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2019-03-18

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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In this thesis we investigate the three flavor neutrino oscillation in vacuum considering the open quantum system framework. This allow us to introduce the quantum decoherence effects in the temporal evolution dynamics of neutrinos eigenstates. The characterization of this effect is given by Г12, Г13 and Г23 parameters, which are associated with the decoherence effects in which there is no neutrino energy dissipation, and the Г33 and Г88, which correspond to possible dissipative effects. We propose some possible scenarios to investigate the effects of decoherence on neutrino systems. In each of these scenarios we assume only one parameter of decoherence Г. In our analysis we consider a phenomenology for the parameter of decoherence, which Γ has a neutrino energy (E) dependence, by a law-power given by n and by a constant γ0, which is the decoherence parameter without energy dependence. This is the parameterization most used in studies that include quantum decoherence in neutrinos, in which where we consider to this analysis, n=-2, 0, 2. This formalism was applied to the data of the disappearance analysis of MINOS FHC and in the neutrino run and anti-neutrino run configurations of both disappearance and appearence analysis of T2K. We had as aim obtain new possibles limits to the quantum decoherence with the analyzed data to the different proposed scenarios. We have showed that for n=-2 and n=0 we obtained limits in the order of O(1E−23) GeV and for n=2, in the order of O(1E−25) GeV at level of 90% C.L. - Confidence Level. In particular for n=-2, we obtained a limit three orders of magnitude more constrained than the previous analysis (P. Coloma, J. Lopez-Pavon, I. Martinez-Soler and H. Nunokawa, Decoherence in Neutrino Propagation Through Matter, and Bounds from IceCube/DeepCore , Eur. Phys. J. C78 (2018) 614), where we obtained that γ0⩽1,69E-23 GeV at level of 90%C.L.. Through the investigated scenarios in this thesis we also were able to analyze the decoherence effect in the solar oscillation parameter (Г12 ≠ 0), of possibles dissipative effects (Г33 = Г88 ≠ 0) and the possibility of the oscillation phase be complex and it possibles consequences in the usual neutrino oscillation.

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GOMES, Abner Leonel Gadelha. Decoerência quântica em neutrinos de aceleradores. 2019. 207 f. Tese (Doutorado em Fisica) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2019.