PULSAR VELOCITIES WITHOUT NEUTRINO MASS

Authors
GRASSO D NUNOKAWA H VALLE JWF
Citation
D. Grasso et al., PULSAR VELOCITIES WITHOUT NEUTRINO MASS, Physical review letters, 81(12), 1998, pp. 2412-2415
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
12
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2412 - 2415
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:12<2412:PVWNM>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We show that pulsar velocities may arise from anisotropic neutrino emi ssion induced by resonant conversions of massless neutrinos in the pre sence of a strong magnetic field. The main ingredient is a small weak universality violation and neither neutrino masses nor magnetic moment s are required. [S0031-9007(98)07137-3].