Bounds on Neutrino Transition Magnetic Moments in Random Magnetic Fields

Abstract

We consider the conversions of active to sterile Majorana neutrinos ${\nu }_a$ and ${\nu }_s$, due to neutrino transition magnetic moments in the presence of random magnetic fields (r.m.f.) generated at the electroweak phase transition. From a simple Schrödinger-type evolution equation, we derive a stringent constraint on the corresponding transition magnetic moments and display it as a function of the domain size and field geometry. For typical parameter choices one gets limits much stronger than usually derived from stellar energy loss considerations. These bounds are consistent with the hypothesis of seeding of galactic magnetic fields by primordial fields surviving past the re-combination epoch. We also obtain a bound on active-sterile neutrino transition magnetic moments from supernova energy loss arguments. For r.m.f. strengths in the range $10^7$ to $10^{12}$ Gauss we obtain limits varying from $μ_{as}^ν \lsim 10^{-13}μ_B$ to $μ_{as}^ν \lsim 10^{-18}μ_B$, again much stronger than in the case without magnetic fields.

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