Neutrino energy quantization in rotating medium

Abstract

Exact solution of the modified Dirac equation in rotating medium is found in polar coordinates in the limit of vanishing neutrino mass. The solution for the active left-handed particle exhibit properties similar to those peculiar for the charged particle moving in the presence of a constant magnetic field. Accordingly, the particle in the rotating matter has circle orbits with energy levels, analogous to the Landau levels in magnetic field. The relevant physical realization of the problem is motion of neutrino inside the rotating neutron star. The feature of such motion to form binding states leads to the prediction of the new mechanism for neutrino trapping. The solution found can be used for detailed description of relativistic and nearly massless neutrino dynamics in neutron stars. Results obtained further develop the "method of exact solutions" in application to particle interactions in presence of dense matter.Comment: 5 pages, in: "Particle Physics on the Eve of LHC" (Proc. of the 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, August 2007), ed. by A.Studenikin, p.176, World Scientific, Singapore, 200