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The existence of a neutrino magnetic moment implies contributions to the neutrino mass via radiative corrections. We derive model-independent "naturalness" upper bounds on the magnetic moments of Dirac neutrinos, generated by physics above…

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The relativistic theory of the inverse beta-decay of polarized neutron, $\nu _{e} + n \to p + e ^{-}$, in strong magnetic field is developed. For the proton wave function we use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in the magnetic filed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergey Shinkevich , Alexander Studenikin

We inspect the model-independent study of practical Dirac Majorana confusion theorem (pDMCT) -- a wide spread belief that the difference between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via any kinematical observable would be practically impossible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-27 C. S. Kim

The neutron charge radius is studied within a light-front model with different spin coupling schemes and wave functions. The cancellation of the contributions from the Foldy term and Dirac form factor to the neutron charge form factor is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. R. B. de Araújo , T. Frederico , M. Beyer , H. J. Weber

In the present article we present exact solutions of the Dirac equation for electric neutral particles with anomalous electric and magnetic moments. Using the algebraic method of separation of variables, the Dirac equation is separated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 German V. Shishkin , Victor M. Villalba

We propose a new non-perturbative method for studying UV complete unitary quantum field theories (QFTs) with a mass gap in general number of spacetime dimensions. The method relies on unitarity formulated as positive semi-definiteness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Denis Karateev , Simon Kuhn , Joao Penedones

Observations of high energy neutrinos, both in the laboratory and from cosmic sources, can be a useful probe in searching for new physics. Such observations can provide sensitive tests of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), which may be a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-23 Floyd W. Stecker

Though theoretical treatments of quantum tunnelling within single-particle quantum mechanics are well-established, at present, there is no quantum field-theoretic description (QFT) of tunnelling. Due to the single-particle nature of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Rosemary Zielinski , Patrick McGlynn , Cedric Simenel

Electromagnetic interactions serve as essential probes for studying and testing our understanding of the atomic nucleus, as they reveal emergent properties across the nuclear chart. We analyse their corresponding observables, which relate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 J. Dobaczewski , B. C. Backes , R. P. de Groote , A. Restrepo-Giraldo , X. Sun , H. Wibowo

Assuming that one neutrino type with definite mass is described by a massive Dirac field operator, it is shown that the physical one-particle states for particles and antiparticles can be rotated to each other, irrespective of their…

General Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 R. Romero

We study nuclear matter and finite nuclei in terms of the quark mean field (QMF) model, in which we describe the nucleon using the constituent quark model. The meson mean fields, in particular the sigma meson, created by other nucleons act…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Shen , H. Toki

We revisit the possibility of distinguishing between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via neutrino-electron elastic scattering in the presence of all possible Lorentz-invariant interactions. Defining proper observables, certain regions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu , Carlos E. Yaguna

We investigate the effect of a strong magnetic field on dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in quenched and unquenched QCD. To this end we apply the Ritus formalism to the coupled set of (truncated) Dyson-Schwinger equations for the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Niklas Mueller , Jacqueline A. Bonnet , Christian S. Fischer

Given the eventuality of neutrino and muon factories in the foreseeable future, all possible 2-to-2 processes involving two neutrinos, whether Dirac or Majorana ones, and two charged fermions are considered on the basis of the most general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean El Bachir Mendy , Jan Govaerts

The neutrino oscillations in the field of a rotating deformed mass is investigated. The phase shift is evaluated in the case of weak field limit, slow rotation and small deformation. To this aim the Hartle-Thorne metric is used, which is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrea Geralico , Orlando Luongo

The effective action for baryons in the external electromagnetic fields is obtained on the basis of the QCD string theory. The area law of the Wilson loop integral, the approximation of the Nambu-Goto straight-line strings, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 S. I. Kruglov

We discuss conceptual aspects of neutrino oscillations with the main emphasis on the field-theoretical approach. This approach includes the neutrino source and detector processes and allows to obtain the neutrino transition or survival…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Grimus , S. Mohanty , P. Stockinger

We discuss the field-theoretical approach to neutrino oscillations. This approach includes the neutrino source and detector processes and allows to obtain the neutrino transition or survival probabilities as cross sections derived from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Grimus , S. Mohanty , P. Stockinger

We investigate the neutron's response to magnetic fields on a torus with the aid of chiral perturbation theory, and expose effects from non-vanishing holonomies. The determination of such effects necessitates non-perturbative treatment of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-04-23 Brian C. Tiburzi

We explore the Dirac equation in external electromagnetic and torsion fields. Motivated by the previous study of quantum field theory in an external torsion field, we include a nonminimal interaction of the spinor field with torsion. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Lewis H. Ryder , Ilya L. Shapiro