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Neutrinos in Strong Magnetic Fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-15 v3

Abstract

We compute the dispersion curves for neutrinos propagating in an extremely dense electroweak plasma, in the presence of very strong magnetic fields of order BMW2/eB \le M_W^2/e. The neutrino self-energy is calculated in the one-loop approximation. We consider only contributions of the first Landau level to the propagator of the W-bosons, and distinguish between motion parallel or perpendicular to the external magnetic field. We find that the neutrino dispersion curve for parallel propagation to the field suggests a superfluid behavior. An interesting analogy with fractional QHE is pointed out. We obtain a neutrino effective mass which increases with the magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705232,
  title  = {Neutrinos in Strong Magnetic Fields},
  author = {A. Pérez Martínez and A. Amézaga Hechavarría and D. Oliva Agüero and H. Pérez Rojas and S. Rodríguez Romo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705232},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, two figures, RevTeX file, some expressions (including typos) corrected, basic results unaffected

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