Induced Charge of Neutrinos in a Medium

Abstract

Neutrinos can polarize a medium due to their weak interaction. This can manifest itself as an effective induced charge of the neutrino. We show how it is related to the Debye screening length in a plasma, first using the results of the 1-loop calculation of the neutrino electromagnetic vertex and then in general to all orders in $e$ and to leading order in the Fermi coupling. We also discuss how the results are modified if the neutrinos have mass -- either Dirac or Majorana type.

11 pages (LATEX), including figures drawn by LATEX, preprint number DOE-ER\,40757-012, CPP-93-12, LTP-038-UPR [One reference added; minor stylistic changes in the text. This version will appear in Phys Rev D]

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