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Gravitational coupling of neutrinos in a medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a medium that contains electrons but not the other charged leptons, such as normal matter, the gravitational interactions of neutrinos are not the same for all the neutrino flavors. We calculate the leading order matter-induced corrections to the neutrino gravitational interactions in such a medium and consider some of their physical implications.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805291,
  title  = {Gravitational coupling of neutrinos in a medium},
  author = {Jose F. Nieves and Palash B. Pal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805291},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages, Latex, uses axodraw.sty (typos corrected; two references added. To appear in Phys. Rev. D)