Summary
The Salam-Weinberg electroweak theory implies that the radiative corrections to the neutrino propagator will involve fields that are coupled to an external magnetic field. The resulting modification to the neutrino propagator implies that a neutrino entering a region with a constant external magnetic field will be partially refracted and partially reflected. This process is examined quantitatively in this paper and is found to be very small.
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La teoria elettrodebole di Weinberg-Salam implica che le correzioni radiative al propagatore neutrinico comprendano campi accoppiati a un campo magnetico esterno. La modificazione risultante dal propagatore neutrinico implica che un neutrino che entra in una regione con campo elettromagnetico esterno costante sia parzialmente rifratto e parzialmente riflesso. Si esamina quantitativamente questo processo e si trova che è molto piccolo.
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McKeon, G., Phillips, S. Deflection of a neutrino beam by an external magnetic field. Nuov Cim A 67, 356–360 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02902595
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02902595