Alec Aivazis edited oscillationTheory.tex  almost 10 years ago

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Since these neutrinos travel close to the speed of light, $p_i \gg m_i$. We can approximate the energy of the neutrinos as  \begin{array}{r \begin{tabular}{r  c l} E_{i}^2 &=& p_{i}^2 + m_{i}^2 \\  &\approx& p_{i}^2 + \frac{m_{i}^2}{2}  \end{array} \end{tabular}