Effects of physics beyond the standard model on the neutrino charge radius: an effective Lagrangian approach

dc.creatoranchez, H. Novales--S\'
dc.creatorRosado, A.
dc.creatoran, V. Santiago--Ol\'
dc.creatorToscano, J. J.
dc.date2008-05-27
dc.date2008-10-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:14:35Z
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dc.descriptionIn this work, we look for possible new physics effects on the electromagnetic charge and anapole form factors, $f_Q(q^2)$ and $f_A(q^2)$, for a massless Dirac neutrino, when these quantities are calculated in the context of an effective electroweak Yang-Mills theory, which induces the most general $SU_L(2)$--invariant Lorentz tensor structure of nonrenormalizable type for the $WWγ$ vertex. It is found that in this context, besides the standard model contribution, the additional contribution to $f_{Q}(q^2)$ and $f_{A}(q^2)$ ($f_{Q}^{O_W}(q^2)$ and $f_{A}^{O_W}(q^2)$, respectively) are gauge independent and finite functions of $q^2$ after adopting a renormalization scheme. These form factors, $f_{Q}^{O_W}(q^2)$ and $f_{A}^{O_W}(q^2)$, get contribution at the one loop level only from the proper neutrino electromagnetic vertex. Besides, the relation $f_{Q}^{eff}(q^2)=q^2f_{A}^{eff}(q^2)$ ($f_{Q}^{eff}(q^2)=f_{Q}^{SM}(q^2)+f_{Q}^{O_W}(q^2)$, $f_{A}^{eff}(q^2)=f_{A}^{SM}(q^2)+f_{A}^{O_W}(q^2)$) is still fulfilled and hence the relation $a_ν^{eff} = < r^2_ν > ^{eff} /6$ ($a_ν^{eff} = a_ν^{SM}+ a_ν^{O_W}$, $<r^2_ν > ^{eff} = < r^2_ν > ^{SM}+< r^2_ν > ^{O_W}$)is gotten, just as in the SM. Using the experimental constraint on the anomalous $WWγ$ vertex, a value for the additional contribution to the charge radius of $|< r^2_ν >^{O_W}| \lsim 10^{-34} cm^2$ is obtained, which is one order of magnitude lower than the SM value.
dc.description9 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4177
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4177
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D78:073014,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.073014
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/211244
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleEffects of physics beyond the standard model on the neutrino charge radius: an effective Lagrangian approach
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