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Phys. Rev. D 23, 272–286 (1981)

Gravitational coupling of neutrinos to matter vorticity: Microscopic asymmetries

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I. Damião Soares
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas/CNPq, Av. Wenceslau Braz, 71-Rio de Janeiro, 22.290 RJ-Brasil

Received 28 April 1980; published in the issue dated 15 January 1981

We examine the gravitational coupling of neutrinos to matter vorticity; in the context of the Einstein theory of gravitation and for technical simplicity, we have considered the Gödel model as the cosmological background, whose matter content has a non-null vorticity. The presence of a vorticity field of matter generates, via gravitation, microscopic asymmetries in neutrino physics. At the microscopic level, currents are asymmetric along the direction determined by the vorticity field: Neutrino (antineutrino) currents are larger along the direction antiparallel (parallel) to the vorticity field. In the case of production of pairs under CP violation, a net number asymmetry is generated between neutrinos and antineutrinos.

© 1981 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.23.272
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10.1103/PhysRevD.23.272
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