Neutrino-photon reactions for energies above $m_e$

Abstract

We show that neutrino-photon reactions above $m_e$ are dominated by the reaction $\nu \gamma \to \nu e^{+}{e}^{-}$. We calculate its cross-section and see that it is larger by several orders of magnitude than the cross-sections of other neutrino-photon processes, for energies above $m_e$. We also discuss potential astrophysical and cosmological consequences.

7 pages, 2 figures

References in corpus (4)

• High energy photon-neutrino interactions
• gamma nu -> gamma gamma nu and crossed processes at energies below m_W
• Inelastic photon-neutrino interactions using an effective Lagrangian
• Direct computation of inelastic photon-neutrino processes in the Standard Model

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