Cherenkov radiation by massless neutrinos in a magnetic field

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Ioannisian, AN
Raffelt, GG
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[1] TECHNION ISRAEL INST TECHNOL, DEPT PHYS, IL-32000 HAIFA, ISRAEL
[2] MAX PLANCK INST PHYS & ASTROPHYS, WERNER HEISENBERG INST, D-80805 MUNICH, GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7038
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We calculate the Cherenkov process nu-->nu gamma in the presence of a homogeneous magnetic field. The neutrinos are taken to be massless with only standard-model couplings. The magnetic field satisfies the dual purpose of inducing an effective neutrino-photon vertex and of modifying the photon dispersion relation such that the Cherenkov condition omega<\k\ is satisfied. Our effect is closely related to photon splitting that occurs in magnetic fields and that may be astrophysically important in the strong magnetic fields of pulsars, It is also closely related to magnetic-field enhanced radiative decays nu-->nu'gamma that have been extensively discussed in the recent literature. In the appropriate limits we agree with these results, but we disagree with earlier explicit calculations of the Cherenkov process. For a field strength B-crit = m(e)(2)/e = 4.41 x 10(13) G and for E = 2m(e) the Cherenkov rate is about 6 x 10(-11) s(-1) and thus too small to be of practical importance for pulsar physics.
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页码:7038 / 7043
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