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Neutrino oscillations: Deriving the plane-wave approximation in the wave-packet approach

  • Proceedings of the 10th International Moscow School of Physics (35th ITEP Winter School of Physics) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics Moscow, Russia February 12–18, 2007 Elementary Particles and Fields
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The plane-wave approximation is widely used in the practical calculations conserning neutrino oscillations. A simple derivation of this approximation starting from the neutrino wave-packet framework is presented.

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Lychkovskiy, O.V. Neutrino oscillations: Deriving the plane-wave approximation in the wave-packet approach. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 72, 1557–1559 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778809090178

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