Macroscopic Parity Violation and Supernova Asymmetries

Preprint

3 January 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9701214

Abstract

Core collapse supernovae are dominated by weakly interacting neutrinos. This provides a unique opportunity for macroscopic parity violation. We speculate that parity violation in a strong magnetic field can lead to an asymmetry in the explosion and a recoil of the newly formed neutron star. We estimate the asymmetry from neutrino-polarized-neutron elastic scattering, polarized electron capture and neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering in a (partially) polarized electron gas.

Keywords

MACROSCOPIC PARITY VIOLATION
PARITY VIOLATION
NEUTRON STAR
SCATTERING
POLARIZED
SUPERNOVA
ASYMMETRY

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Version 1, 1997-01-03, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics A, 640 (2), 281.

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