Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields - art. no. 055003

Citation
L. Bento et Z. Berezhiani, Classical Nambu-Goldstone fields - art. no. 055003, PHYS REV D, 6205(5), 2000, pp. 5003
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6205
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000901)6205:5<5003:CNF-AN>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
It is shown that a Nambu-Goldstone (NG) field may be coherently produced by a large number of particles in spite of the fact that the NG bosuns do not couple to flavor conserving scalar densities such as <(psi)over bar>psi. I f a flavor oscillation process takes place, the phases of the pseudoscalar or flavor-violating densities of different particles do not necessarily can cel each other. The NG boson gets a macroscopic source whenever the total ( spontaneously broken) quantum number carried by the source particles suffer s a net increase or decrease in time. If the lepton numbers are spontaneous ly broken such classical NG (Majoron) fields may significantly change the n eutrino oscillation processes in stars, pushing the observational capabilit ies of neutrino-Majoron couplings down to m(nu)/300 GeV.