Radiative neutrino decay in hot media
Abstract
We calculate the rate for the radiative neutrino decay in a thermal background of electrons and photons, taking into account the effect of the stimulated emission of photons in the thermal bath. We show that the rate is enhanced by a large factor relative to the rate for the corresponding process in the vacuum.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- July 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.365
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9702283
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhRvD..56..365N
- Keywords:
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- 13.35.Hb;
- 11.10.Wx;
- Decays of heavy neutrinos;
- Finite-temperature field theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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