As Wigner said, a physical particle is an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group. A characteristic of Poincaré group is that mass comes in.
A neutrino particle is better recognized as its mass eigenstate.
In QFT, there are 3 different forms of neutrino mass term, left-handed Majorana, right-handed Majorana and Dirac mass terms.
Helicity is the projection of spin onto direction of momentum,
where
A state is called right-handed if helicity is positive, i.e., spin has the same direction as momentum.
Chirality is the eigenstate of the Dirac \(\gamma_5\) matrix, which is explicitly, [1]
Fig. 1.3 A ensemble of classical harmonic oscillators can be described using such phase-space probability distribution.
Wigner function is an analogue of the classical phase-space probability distribution function though it is not really probability. [3] The mean of Wigner function lies in the two quadratures, i.e., space distribution and momentum distribution.
There is a collection of Wigner functions on this site. [3]
[3] | (1, 2) http://www.iqst.ca/quantech/wigner.php |
Question
How do one describe a system of neutrinos using Wigner function? The effect of statistics?
Fermi-Dirac distribution
where \(\xi=\mu/T\) is the degeneracy parameter.
The neutrino-neutrino forward scattering is [2]
Question
Meaning of each term in Liouville equation.
[2] | Pantaleone (1992), Friedland & Lunardini (2003). |
[1] | *Chirality and Helicity In Depth* by Robert D. Klauber |
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