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Simple and Compact Expressions for Neutrino Oscillation Probabilities in Matter
Hisakazu Minakata, Stephen J Parke
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We reformulate perturbation theory for neutrino oscillations in matter with an expansion parameter related to the ratio of the solar to the atmospheric Δm² scales. Unlike previous works, we use a renormalized basis in which certain first-order effects are taken into account in the zeroth-order Hamiltonian. We show that the new framework has an exceptional feature that leads to the neutrino oscillation probability in matter with the same structure as in vacuum to first order in the expansion parameter. It facilitates immediate physical interpretation of the formulas, and makes the expressions for the neutrino oscillation probabilities extremely simple and compact. We find, for example, that the νₑ disappearance probability at this order is of a simple two-flavor form with an appropriately identified mixing angle and Δm². More generally, all the oscillation probabilities can be written in the universal form with the channel-discrimination coefficient of 0, ±1 or simple functions of θ₂₃. Despite their simple forms they include all order effects of θ₁₃ and all order effects of the matter potential, to first order in our expansion parameter.
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