Charge Conjugation and Lense-Thirring Effect:
Abstract
This essay presents a new asymmetry that arises from the interplay of charge conjugation and Lense-Thirring effect. When applied to Majorana neutrinos, the effects predicts ν e ⇌ bar {ν }e oscillations in gravitational environments with rotating sources. Parameters associated with astrophysical environments indicate that the presented effect is presently unobservable for solar neutrinos. But, it will play an important role in supernova explosions, and carries relevance for the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Pub Date:
- 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0218271804006668
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0405112
- Bibcode:
- 2004IJMPD..13.2361A
- Keywords:
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- Lense-Thirring effects;
- spinors;
- cosmology;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Third Prize Gravity Research Foundation Essay (2004)