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New bounds on neutrino magnetic moment and re-examination of plasma effect in neutrino spin light
Recent discussion on the possibility to obtain more stringent bounds on
neutrino magnetic moment has stimulated new interest to possible effects
induced by neutrino magnetic moment. In particular, in this note after a short
review on neutrino magnetic moment we re-examine the effect of plasmon mass on
neutrino spin light radiation in dense matter. We track the entry of the
plasmon mass quantity in process characteristics and found out that the most
substantial role it plays is the formation of the process threshold. It is
shown that far from this point the plasmon mass can be omitted in all the
corresponding physical quantities and one can rely on the results of massless
photon spin light radiation theory in matter.Comment: to appear in Nuovo Cimento 35 C, No. 1, 2012 (based on the talk
presented at the 25th Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste on "Results
and Perspectives in Particle Physics", La Thuile, February 27 - March 5, 201
Quantum treatment of neutrino in background matter
Motivated by the need of elaboration of the quantum theory of the spin light
of neutrino in matter (), we have studied in more detail the exact
solutions of the Dirac equation for neutrinos moving in the background matter.
These exact neutrino wavefunctions form a basis for a rather powerful method of
investigation of different neutrino processes in matter, which is similar to
the Furry representation of quantum electrodynamics in external fields. Within
this method we also derive the corresponding Dirac equation for an electron
moving in matter and consider the electromagnetic radiation ("spin light of
electron in matter", ) that can be emitted by the electron in this case.Comment: 10 pages, in: Proceedings of QFEXT'05 (The Seventh Workshop on
Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, IEEC, CSIC
and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 5-9 September
2005.), ed. by Emilio Elizalde and Sergei Odintsov; published in Journal of
Physics
Detection of parent molecules in the IR spectrum of P/Halley with the IKS-Vega spectrometer
The two spectroscopic channels of the IKS experiment on board the Vega probes were designed for the detection of emission bands of parent molecules and/or cometary dust, in the 2.5 to 5 micrometer range and the 6 to 12 micron range respectively. On Vega 1, the experiment worked successfully, and cometary spectra were recorded at distances from the comet nucleus ranging from about 250,000 to 40,000 km. The field of view was 1 deg and the spectral resolving power was about 50. On Vega 2, no result could be obtained due to a failure of the cryogenic system. The emission spectra obtained are briefly analyzed
Magnon Bose condensation in symmetry breaking magnetic field
Magnon Bose condensation (BC)in the symmetry breaking magnetic field is a
result of unusual form of the Zeeman energy, which has terms linear in the
spin-wave operators and terms mixing excitations differ in the Wave-vector of
the magnetic structure. The following examples are considered: simple
easy-plane tetragonal antiferromagnets (AF), frustrated AF family
where etc. and cubic magnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya
interaction ( etc.). In all cases the BC becomes important when the
magnetic field becomes comparable with the spin-wave gap. The theory is
illustrated by existing experimental results.Comment: Submitted to J. of Phys. Condens. Matter (Proceedings of
International Conference "Highly Frustrated Magnets", Osaka (Japan), August
2006). 8 pages, 5 figure
Chiral criticality in doped MnFeSi compounds
The critical spin fluctuations in doped compounds MnFeSi have
been studied by means of ac-susceptibility measurements, polarized neutron
small angle scattering and spin echo spectroscopy. It is shown that these
compounds undergo the transition from the paramagnetic to helimagnetic phase
through continuous, yet well distinguishable crossovers: (i) from paramagnetic
to partially chiral, (ii) from partially chiral to highly chiral fluctuating
state. The crossover points are identified on the basis of combined analysis of
the temperature dependence of ac-susceptibility and polarized SANS data. The
whole transition is marked by two inflection point of the temperature
dependence of ac-susceptibility: the upper one corresponds to the crossover to
partially chiral state at , where the inverse correlation length , the lower one corresponds to the transition to the spin helix
structure. The intermediate crossover to the highly chiral phase is observed at
the inflection point of the first derivative of ac-susceptibility, where
. The temperature crossovers to the highly chiral fluctuating
state is associated with the enhancing influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moria
interaction close to .Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 13 cite
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