Neutral pion decay into $\nu\bar{\nu}$ in dense skyrmion matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study the weak decay of the neutral pion to a neutrino-antineutrino pair, , in the Skyrme model. In baryon free-space the process is forbidden by helicity while in a dense baryonic medium, the process becomes possible already to leading order in due to the break-down of Lorentz symmetry in the background medium.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501117,
title = {Neutral pion decay into $\nu\bar{\nu}$ in dense skyrmion matter},
author = {Alexander C. Kalloniatis and Jonathan D. Carroll and Byung-Yoon Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501117},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, RevTeX, 4 figures. Expanded discussion in light of referee comments