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A classical lower bound on the size of a massive neutrino

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-09-12 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we calculate the size of a massive neutrino in the following approach. We perform our calculation using its mass, spin, and magnetic moment through the neutrino-electron interaction, viavia the classical magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. Thus, our estimate is obtained by mimicking the low-energy electroweak scattering process νl\nu_l-ll^{\prime}. This leads to surprisingly accurate result which differs in less than one order of magnitude of more detailed calculations with one-loop corrections based on the neutrino charge radius and the νl\nu_l-ll^{\prime} scattering process. The resulting estimates are flavour-blind and gauge independent by construction. We also find that our lower bound is below the reported experimental upper bound on the electron neutrino charged radius. So we obtained a constraining range for the neutrino size.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04099,
  title  = {A classical lower bound on the size of a massive neutrino},
  author = {E. Sadurní and A. Rosado and S. Rosado-Navarro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04099},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure