Neutrino force at all length scales
Abstract
The Standard Model predicts a long-range force mediated by a pair of neutrinos, known as ``the neutrino force". It scales as , where is the Fermi constant. However, as , the four-Fermi theory breaks down and the neutrino force no longer has the scaling. For the first time, we derive a complete expression for the neutrino force that is valid at all distances. For , the result reduces to the known ; for , it scales as . We explore the implications of this result for atomic parity violation (APV) experiments. A key feature of the neutrino force is that it is a long-range effect compared to the atomic length scale. Thus, in general, it cannot be simply treated as a correction to the tree-level -exchange diagram without considering the atomic wavefunctions. We calculate the effects in muonium and positronium, finding that the neutrino force contributes about 4\% and 16\%, respectively, compared to the leading exchange. This indicates a significant impact on APV, with important implications for detecting the neutrino force and measuring the weak mixing angle in APV experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2410.19059,
title = {Neutrino force at all length scales},
author = {Mitrajyoti Ghosh and Yuval Grossman and Chinhsan Sieng and Bingrong Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19059},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
56 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables; v2: a new appendix added to generalize the dispersion formalism for calculating quantum potentials, results unchanged, matches journal version