Explaining LSND and MiniBooNE using altered neutrino dispersion relations

Abstract

We investigate the possibility to explain the MiniBooNE anomaly by CPT and Lorentz symmetry violating neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in a two generation framework. We work with four non-zero CPT-violating parameters that allow for resonant enhancements in neutrino-antineutrino oscillation phenomena in vacuo which are suitably described in terms of charge conjugation eigenstates of the system. We study the relation between the flavor, charge conjugation and mass eigenbasis of neutrino-antineutrino oscillations and examine the interplay between the available CPT-violating parameter space and possible resonance structures.

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings for Erice 2009 Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics