Neutrino-Induced Polarization Rotation in Active Galactic Nuclei Plasmas
Abstract
We study parity-violating birefringence induced by an asymmetric neutrino background in plasmas associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN). We derive a directionality factor arising from the relative bulk motion between the neutrino medium and plasma, and show that it can produce an anomalous frequency dependence of the polarization-rotation angle, distinct from the scaling of Faraday rotation. This anomalous scaling can occur either at the resonance plasma frequency condition , or when lies within the range of the neutrino energy spectrum. We estimate the effect for three scenarios: jets propagating through the cosmic neutrino background (CB), jets with an internal flux of high-energy neutrinos, and accretion-disk plasma permeated by the CB. Of the three scenarios, the latter gives the largest rotation angle , at X-ray frequencies. Although the predicted rotation angles are below current polarimetric sensitivity, the identified spectral signatures provide a theoretical framework for probing neutrino asymmetries and AGN plasma properties independent of magnetic field models.
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@article{arxiv.2601.15910,
title = {Neutrino-Induced Polarization Rotation in Active Galactic Nuclei Plasmas},
author = {H. B. Câmara and A. Smetana and A. Tursunov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15910},
year = {2026}
}
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