Is Geodetic Precession of Massive Neutrinos the solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem?
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✦ hep-ph
gr-qc
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geodeticprecessionmassivemilburnneutrinoneutrinosproblemsolar
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We examine a recent suggestion by Milburn that slightly massive electron neutrinos, produced left-handed at the core of the sun, suffer geodetic precession adequate to render them right-handed (and therefore sterile) in sufficient numbers to solve the solar neutrino problem. In that light, we perform a complete, general-relativistic calculation of the geodetic spin precession of an ultrarelativistic particle in the Schwartzschild metric. We conclude that the effect is negligible, in disagreement with Milburn's analysis.
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