Published June 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Neutrino propagation in a weakly magnetized medium

  • 1. Dept. of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India)
  • 2. Dept. of Physics, Columbia Univ., New York (United States)

Description

Neutrino-photon processes, forbidden in vacuum, can take place in the presence of a thermal medium and/or an external electro-magnetic field, mediated by the corresponding charged leptons (real or virtual). Such interactions affect the propagation of neutrinos through a magnetized plasma. We investigate the neutrino-photon absorptive processes, at the one-loop level, for massless neutrinos in a weakly magnetized plasma. We find that there is no correction to the absorptive part of the axial-vector-vector amplitude due to the presence of a magnetic field, to the linear order in the field strength. (author)

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Journal Title
Pramana
Journal Volume
62
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1241-1254
CODEN
PRAMCI

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Notes
26 refs., 2 figs., 2 ills.