Jul 6 – 13, 2022
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Matter polarization effect on neutrino spin oscillations

Jul 8, 2022, 7:05 PM
1h 25m
Bologna, Italy

Bologna, Italy

Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi
Poster Neutrino Physics Poster Session

Speaker

Alexander Grigoriev (MIPT)

Description

Neutrino electromagnetic properties are of great importance from the point of view of fundamental theory, as well as from the point of view of applications. It is of common knowledge that neutrinos determine to a large extent the dynamics of supernova explosion. In this work we study the effect of matter polarized by external magnetic field on neutrino spin evolution and propagation inside supernovae. Alternatively, the problem of neutrino interaction with such kind of matter can be treated as the interaction of the induced neutrino magnetic moment (IMM) with the magnetic field. Using the corresponding interaction Lagrangian we obtain the effective evolution equation for a neutrino with IMM and on its basis consider neutrino spin oscillations for different cases of Dirac/Majorana neutrino type, absence/presence of neutrino anomalous magnetic moment (AMM). It is shown that due to IMM the neutrino flux from a supernova undergoes additional attenuation. Also, the effects of IMM and AMM when taken together can cancel each other leading to a specific maximum in the neutrino spectrum from supernovae.

Based on:
A.Grigoriev, E. Kupcheva, A.Ternov, Neutrino spin oscillations in polarized matter, Phys.Lett.B 797 (2019) 134861,
e-Print: 1812.08635 [hep-ph]

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