Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-11-24
Phys.Rev.D50:2139-2147,1994
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
DFPD 93/TH/75, SISSA 93/183/A preprint, 25 pages + 4 figures available by e-mail request
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.2139
We calculate the correction to the neutrino electromagnetic vertex due to background of electrons in a large class of models, as the supersymmetric model with explicit breaking of R-parity, where charged scalar bosons couple to leptons and which are able to provide an astrophysically interesting value for the neutrino magnetic (electric) moment, $\mu_\nu\sim 10^{-12}\:\mu_B$. We show that the medium contribution to the chirality flipping magnetic (electric) dipole moment is not significant, however a new chirality flipping, but helicity conserving, term arises. It signals the presence of ${\cal CP}$ and ${\cal CPT}$ asymmetries in the medium and is associated to the longitudinal photon and therefore disappears in the vacuum. We estimate the contribution of this new term to the rate of the plasmon decay process $\gamma_{pl}\rightarrow \nu\nu$ in the core of degenerate stars, showing that it can be comparable with the contribution coming from the vacuum magnetic (dipole) moment. We also calculate the correction to the effective potential of a propagating neutrino in presence of a magnetic field due to a chirality preserving contribution to the diagonal magnetic moment from the medium. This contribution is identical for particles and antiparticles and so need not to vanish for Majorana neutrinos.
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