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We study the question of whether oscillations between non-relativistic neutrinos or between relativistic and non-relativistic neutrinos are possible. The issues of neutrino production and propagation coherence and their impact on the above question are discussed in detail. It is demonstrated that no neutrino oscillations can occur when neutrinos that are non-relativistic in the laboratory frame are involved, except in a strongly mass-degenerate case. We also discuss how this analysis depends on the choice of the Lorentz frame. Our results are for the most part in agreement with Hinchliffe’s rule.
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Akhmedov, E. Do non-relativistic neutrinos oscillate?. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 70 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2017)070
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