Cherenkov radiation by massless neutrinos
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Due to their weak interactions, neutrinos can polarize a medium and acquire an induced charge. We consider the Cherenkov radiation emitted by neutrinos due to their effective electromagnetic interactions as they pass through a polarizable medium. The effect exists even for massless, chiral neutrinos, where no physics beyond the standard model needs to be assumed. The study of the electromagnetic properties of neutrinos, in vacuum as well as in a medium, has been a subject of great interest over the years because of its intrinsic interest and also because of its potentially important
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تاریخ انتشار 1995