The neutrino ground state in a neutron star
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We address a recent claim that the stability of neutron stars implies a lower bound on the mass of the neutrino. We argue that the result obtained by some previous authors is due to an improper summation of an infrared-sensitive series and that a non-perturbative "resummation" of the series yields a finite and well-behaved result. The stability of neutron stars thus gives no lower bound on the mass of the neutrino.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9807412,
title = {The neutrino ground state in a neutron star},
author = {Ken Kiers and Michel H. G. Tytgat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9807412},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, Latex (uses espcrc2.sty); contribution to the proceedings of Neutrino 98, Takayama, Japan, 4-9 June, 1998