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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, π0ννˉ\pi^0\to \nu \bar{\nu}, 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 GFG_F due to the break-down of Lorentz symmetry in the background medium.

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@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