Magnetic Moments of Dirac Neutrinos
Abstract
The existence of a neutrino magnetic moment implies contributions to the neutrino mass via radiative corrections. We derive model-independent "naturalness" upper bounds on the magnetic moments of Dirac neutrinos, generated by physics above the electroweak scale. The neutrino mass receives a contribution from higher order operators, which are renormalized by operators responsible for the neutrino magnetic moment. This contribution can be calculated in a model independent way. In the absence of fine-tuning, we find that current neutrino mass limits imply that µv < 10^–14 Bohr magnetons. This bound is several orders of magnitude stronger than those obtained from solar and reactor neutrino data and astrophysical observations.
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© 2006 American Institute of Physics. This work was supported in part under U.S. DOE contracts DE-FG02-05ER41361 and DE-FG03-92ER40701, and NSF grant PHY-0071856.Attached Files
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- Eprint ID
- 8665
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- CaltechAUTHORS:BELaipcp06b
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-FG02-05ER41361
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-FG03-92ER40701
- NSF
- PHY-0071856
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2007-09-03Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2023-06-01Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 842