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Quantum states of the neutrino in a nonuniformly moving medium

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The modified Dirac equation for the neutrino in a material medium and its solution for a nonuniform motion of the medium with a velocity gradient along a certain direction are examined in the present paper. This formulation of the problem is analogous to the problem of electron motion in a constant uniform magnetic field. This is manifested through a similar character of particle wave functions that in both cases describe the states with circular orbits. A new mechanism of confinement of low-energy neutrinos in fast-rotating dense astrophysical objects is predicted based on this property of the wave functions. As an example of their application, a process of spin light ( SLv) of neutrino is examined in this configuration of matter.

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  1. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

    A. V. Grigoriev, A. M. Savochkin & A. I. Studenikin

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 8, pp. 90–96, August, 2007.

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Grigoriev, A.V., Savochkin, A.M. & Studenikin, A.I. Quantum states of the neutrino in a nonuniformly moving medium. Russ Phys J 50, 845–852 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-007-0127-z

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