Cerenkov radiation of longitudinal photons by neutrinos
arXiv:hep-ph/9612375 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1688
Abstract
In a relativistic plasma neutrino can emit plasmons by the Cerenkov process which is kinematically allowed for a range of frequencies for which refractive index is greater than one. We have calculated the rate of energy emission by this process. We compute the energy deposited in a stalled supernova shock wave by the Cerenkov process and find that it is much smaller than the Bethe-Wilson mechanism.
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