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Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that a true Nambu-Goldstone (NG) boson develops a coherent long-range field whenever the charge associated with it that is carried by the other particles is not conserved in a macroscopic scale. The source of a NG field is the time rate of quantum number violation. If the lepton numbers are spontaneously broken at a scale below 1 TeV, the neutrino oscillation processes generate long-range majoron fields that are strong enough in Supernovae to modify the neutrino flavor dynamics. Two examples are given: NG fields may improve the adiabaticity of νeνX\nu_{e}\leftrightarrow \nu_{X} transitions or cause resonant anti-neutrino oscillations otherwise impossible with solely weak interactions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908506,
  title  = {Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields},
  author = {Luis Bento},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908506},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages. Talk given at the X International School "Particles and Cosmology", 19-25 April, 1999, Baksan Valley, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia