Neutrino helicity flip in a curved space-time

DOI10.1007/BF02108068MaRDI QIDQ1897615zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Carlos jun. Mergulhão

Publication date 4 September 1995

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02108068

zbMATH Keywords

helicity fliphelicity operatorneutrino equation in curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Review text

The author shows that the helicity operator for a massless neutrino is not, in general, conserved in curved spaces in quantum formalism by calculating the commutator of the helicity operator with the Hamiltonian of the system in a static metric. Next, the probability of a helicity flip of a massless neutrino is calculated. The flip occurs because in the interaction Lagrangian density the helicity is coupled to the curvature of spacetime, the metric to satisfy the adiabatic hypothesis pertaining to switching on and off the gravitational field).

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3404261 (Why is no real title available?)
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