Gravitational coupling of neutrinos to matter vorticity: Microscopic asymmetries
- 15 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 23 (2) , 272-286
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.23.272
Abstract
We examine the gravitational coupling of neutrinos to matter vorticity; in the context of the Einstein theory of gravitation and for technical simplicity, we have considered the Gödel model as the cosmological background, whose matter content has a non-null vorticity. The presence of a vorticity field of matter generates, via gravitation, microscopic asymmetries in neutrino physics. At the microscopic level, currents are asymmetric along the direction determined by the vorticity field: Neutrino (antineutrino) currents are larger along the direction antiparallel (parallel) to the vorticity field. In the case of production of pairs under violation, a net number asymmetry is generated between neutrinos and antineutrinos.
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