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Neutrino Propagation and Oscillations in a Strong Magnetic Field

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We review the results on neutrino propagation in neutral and charged media under strong magnetic fields MW2Bme2M_{W}^{2}\gg B\gg m_{e}^{2}. It is shown that the neutrino energy density gets a magnetic contribution in both charged and neutral media, which is linear in the magnetic field, of first order in GFG_{F}, and independent of the charge density. This new term enters as a correction to the neutrino kinetic energy and produces an anisotropic contribution to the neutrino index of refraction. As a consequence, in a neutral medium a highly anisotropic resonant level-crossing condition takes place for the oscillation between electron-neutrinos and the other neutrino species. Possible cosmological applications are presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0408108,
  title  = {Neutrino Propagation and Oscillations in a Strong Magnetic Field},
  author = {Efrain J. Ferrer and Vivian de la Incera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0408108},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Talk given at the Conference: MRST-2004: "From Quaks to Cosmology," Montreal, Canada, May 12-14, 2004