Gravitational coupling of neutrinos in a medium

Abstract

In a medium that contains electrons but not the other charged leptons, such as normal matter, the gravitational interactions of neutrinos are not the same for all the neutrino flavors. We calculate the leading order matter-induced corrections to the neutrino gravitational interactions in such a medium and consider some of their physical implications.

21 pages, Latex, uses axodraw.sty (typos corrected; two references added. To appear in Phys. Rev. D)

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• Neutral current induced neutrino oscillations in a supernova
• Optical Activity of a Neutrino Gas
• Nucleon contribution to the neutrino electromagnetic vertex in matter
• Radiative neutrino decay in hot media

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