Of Course Muons Can Oscillate
Abstract
Recent theoretical claims not withstanding, muons can and do oscillate. Muons produced in association with neutrinos (if masses and mixing angles are nonzero) exhibit a joint oscillating spatial distribution. The possible use of muon oscillations as a probe of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is discussed using very simple physical arguments. Space-time oscillations in the secondary decay vertices of muons (produced by pion decay) persist after summing over all undetected neutrinos.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 1997
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9707268
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9707268
- Bibcode:
- 1997hep.ph....7268S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Plain TeX Format, 7 pages, No figures