Neutrino helicity oscillations in astrophysical environments: A many-body approach

arXiv:2605.31242 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-05-29 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-05-29

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: 22 pages (16 p. main text, 6 p. appendices + references), 12 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. D

Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 114, 063016 (2026)

DOI: 10.1103/2p4r-f1gs

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Many-Body Effects — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 7× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement Entropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frequency Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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