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Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

It is shown that a Nambu-Goldstone (NG) field may be coherently produced by a large number of particles in spite of the fact that the NG bosons do not couple to flavor conserving scalar densities like ψˉψ\bar{\psi}\psi. If a flavor oscillation process takes place the phases of the pseudo-scalar or flavor violating densities of different particles do not necessarily cancel each other. The NG boson gets a macroscopic source whenever the total (spontaneously broken) quantum number carried by the source particles suffers a net increase or decrease in time. If the lepton numbers are spontaneously broken such classical NG (majoron) fields may significantly change the neutrino oscillation processes in stars pushing the observational capabilities of neutrino-majoron couplings down to mν/300m_{\nu}/300 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908211,
  title  = {Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields},
  author = {Luis Bento and Zurab Berezhiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908211},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, updated, to appear in PRD