Hydrodynamic description of neutrino gas
Astrophysics
2010-06-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
General Physics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
The system of neutrino-antineutrino - 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 into a heavy and a light neutrino () 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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Cite
@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