Published March 7, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetically induced neutrino oscillations and neutrino refractive effects in the early Universe

  • 1. Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Postfach 401212, 8000 Muenchen 40, Federal Republic of Germany
  • 3. Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan

Description

We investigate neutrino spin precession in primordial magnetic fields, taking previously ignored neutrino refractive effects into account. A present-day intergalactic field strength B0 implies that the magnetic dipole moments of any two neutrino species are bounded by μ/sub ν/approx. <10-16μ/sub B/[(10-9 G)/B0] because of nucleosynthesis constraints on the number of neutrino flavors

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
60
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
879-881
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA