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Dynamic fermion flavor mixing through transition dipole moments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-25 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that Majorana neutrino flavor mixing can be driven by transition dipole moments in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. We demonstrate the sensitivity of the rotation mixing matrix to strong fields obtaining dynamical mass eigenstates in the two-flavor model. The three-flavor case and extensions to the quark sector are introduced.

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@article{arxiv.2309.15797,
  title  = {Dynamic fermion flavor mixing through transition dipole moments},
  author = {Johann Rafelski and Andrew Steinmetz and Cheng Tao Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15797},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

14 pages. A version of this article with extended personal remarks appears in the book dedicated to the memory of Harald Fritzsch edited by Gerhard Buchalla, Dieter L\"ust and Zhi-Zhong Xing