How Magnetic is the Dirac Neutrino?
Abstract
We derive model-independent, “naturalness” upper bounds on the magnetic moments μν of Dirac neutrinos generated by physics above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. In the absence of fine-tuning of effective operator coefficients, we find that current information on neutrino mass implies that |μν|≲10-14 bohr magnetons. This bound is several orders of magnitude stronger than those obtained from analyses of solar and reactor neutrino data and astrophysical observations.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.151802
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0504134
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvL..95o1802B
- Keywords:
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- 13.15.+g;
- 13.40.Em;
- 14.60.Lm;
- Neutrino interactions;
- Electric and magnetic moments;
- Ordinary neutrinos (nuW bosons;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures, Majorana case discussion corrected. References updated