Published August 24, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Generation of mass and change of the neutrino helicity in a medium in the presence of right currents

  • 1. AN SSSR, Moscow. Inst. Zemnogo Magnetizma, Ionosfery i Rasprostraneniya Radiovoln

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In the symmetric SUL(2)xSUR(2)xU(1) model of electroweak interactions the Dirac neutrino possesses in a medium effective mass, even in the absence of vacuum rest mass (mvvac=0). As a restult the neutrino in such a model has always a four-component wave function in the medium. The left neutrino, produced in a nuclear reaction, becomes right in the material in elastic scattering from nuclei, and more efficiently than in the same process when taking into account the anomalous vacuum magnetic moment. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
227
Journal Issue
2
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
255-259
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA