Comment on “New Conditions for a Total Neutrino Conversion in a Medium”

Evgeny Akhmedov, A. Yu. Smirnov

Physical Review Letters · 2000 · 28 citations · 8 references

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We show that the conditions for total neutrino conversion found in [1] are equivalent to the conditions of maximal depth (parametric resonance) and ($\\pi/2 + \\pi k$) - phase of parametric oscillations. Therefore the effects considered in [1] are a particular case of the parametric resonance in neutrino oscillations. The existence of strong enhancement peaks in transition probability P rather than the condition P=1 is of physical relevance. We comment on possible realizations and implications of the parametric enhancement of neutrino oscillations.

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