Cherenkov radiation by massless neutrinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-17 v1
Abstract
Due to their weak interactions, neutrinos can polarize a medium and acquire an induced charge. We consider the Cherenkov radiation emitted by neutrinos due to their effective electromagnetic interactions as they pass through a polarizable medium. The effect exists even for massless, chiral neutrinos, where no physics beyond the standard model needs to be assumed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9509415,
title = {Cherenkov radiation by massless neutrinos},
author = {Juan Carlos D'Olivo and Jose F. Nieves and Palash B. Pal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9509415},
year = {2014}
}
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11 pages Latex file; to appear in Phys. Lett. B