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Hydrodynamic description of neutrino gas

Astrophysics 2010-06-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory General Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

The system of neutrino-antineutrino (ννˉ)(\nu\bar{\nu}) - plasma is considered taking into account their weak Fermi interaction. New fluid instabilities driven by strong neutrino flux in a plasma are found. The nonlinear stationary as well as nonstationary waves in the neutrino gas are discussed. It is shown that a bunch of neutrinos, drifting with a constant velocity across a homogeneous plasma, can also induce emission of lower energy neutrinos due to scattering, i.e. the decay of a heavy neutrino νH\nu_{H} into a heavy and a light neutrino νL\nu_L (νHνHνL\nu_H\to\nu_H\nu_L) in a plasma. Furthermore we find that the neutrino production in stars does not lead in general to energy losses from the neutron stars.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209353,
  title  = {Hydrodynamic description of neutrino gas},
  author = {Levan N. Tsintsadze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209353},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

20 pages, 7 figures, Submitted to ApJ