Radiative neutrino decay in a medium
- 5 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (10) , 1088-1090
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.1088
Abstract
We calculate the rate of decay of a heavy neutrino into a lighter neutrino and a photon in a background that contain electrons but no μ’s or τ’s. Unlike the same decay in the vacuum, the rate of this process is not suppressed by the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism. Some physical implications of the process are discussed.Keywords
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