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Magnetic Moments of Dirac Neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

The existence of a neutrino magnetic moment implies contributions to the neutrino mass via radiative corrections. We derive model-independent "naturalness" upper bounds on the magnetic moments of Dirac neutrinos, generated by physics above the electroweak scale. The neutrino mass receives a contribution from higher order operators, which are renormalized by operators responsible for the neutrino magnetic moment. This contribution can be calculated in a model independent way. In the absence of fine-tuning, we find that current neutrino mass limits imply that μν<1014|\mu_\nu| < 10^{-14} Bohr magnetons. This bound is several orders of magnitude stronger than those obtained from solar and reactor neutrino data and astrophysical observations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0601005,
  title  = {Magnetic Moments of Dirac Neutrinos},
  author = {Nicole F. Bell and V. Cirigliano and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and P. Vogel and Mark B. Wise},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0601005},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages. Talk given at PANIC'05