Decaimentos de neutrinos induzidos por escalares e aplicações a supernovas / Neutrinos decays via scalars and their applications to supernovas
AUTOR(ES)
Bruce Lehmann Sanchez Vega
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
In this work we study nonradiative decays of Majorona neutrinos, via massless bosons, in vacuum and matter. The considerate couplings between the neutrinos and the bosons were scalar and pseudoscalar. In particular we study the processes n i ® nj + c e n i ® n j + c (where is either scalar or pseudoscalar field). In vacuum, we calculate effective rates in the lowest order of the perturbation theory using the conventional formalism for Majorana neutrinos. We calculate the same rates in the matter case using the two-component helicity formalism introduced in [P. Mannheim, Phys. Rev. D. 37, 1935 (1988)] for a general theory, where there are neutrino fields belong to SUL(2) isodoublets (active neutrinos) and neutrino fields belong to SUL(2) isosinglets (sterile neutrinos). Neutrino decays of relatively long lifetimes could be proved, in principle, through of supernova relic neutrino (SRN) observations. Therefore, we calculate the antineutrinos ux of SRN that arrive to the Earth simultaneously considering both neutrino oscillations and the previously mentioned neutrino decays
ASSUNTO(S)
supernova (estrela) decaimento neutrinos neutrinos decay supernovae
