Neutrino Propulsion for Interstellar Spacecraft
General Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
An exotic spacecraft propulsion technology is described which exploits parity violation in weak interactions. Anisotropic neutrino emission from a polarized assembly of weakly interacting particles converts rest mass directly to spacecraft impulse.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9811009,
title = {Neutrino Propulsion for Interstellar Spacecraft},
author = {J. A. Morgan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9811009},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Submitted to Acta Astronautica. 10 pages, one table