Published November 24, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Dirac equation for massive neutrinos in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime from a 5D vacuum

  • 1. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, (7600) Mar del Plata (Argentina)
  • 2. Instituto de Investigaciones Físicas de Mar del Plata (IFIMAR), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (Argentina)

Description

Starting from a Dirac equation for massless neutrino in a 5D Ricci-flat background metric, we obtain the effective 4D equation for massive neutrino in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) background metric from an extended SdS 5D Ricci-flat metric. We use the fact that the spin connection is defined to an accuracy of a vector, so that the covariant derivative of the spinor field is strongly dependent of the background geometry. We show that the mass of the neutrino can be induced from the extra space-like dimension.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.058

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.058;
arXiv
arXiv:1110.1300v3;
PII
S0370-2693(11)01312-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
705
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 535-538
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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