Interference phenomenon and geometric phase for Dirac neutrino in pion+ decay

Abstract

We analyze the geometric phase in the neutrino oscillation phenomenon, which follows the pion decay \pi+ --> \mu+ + \nu_{\mu}. Its value \pi is consistent with the present-day global analysis of the Standard Model neutrino oscillation parameters, accounting for the nonzero value of \theta_13. The impact of the charge-parity (CP) violating phase \delta, the neutrino's nature, and the new physics is discussed.

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures