https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715805005
Radiative decay of keV-mass sterile neutrino in magnetized electron plasma
1 P. G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Sovietskaya 14, 150003 Yaroslavl, Russia
2 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, 80805 München, Germany
* e-mail: dobrynina@uniyar.ac.ru
Published online: 24 October 2017
The radiative decay of sterile neutrinos with typical masses of 10 keV is investigated in the presence of an external magnetic field and degenerate electron plasma. Full account is taken of the modified photon dispersion relation relative to vacuum. The limiting cases of relativistic and nonrelativistic plasma are analyzed. The decay rate calculated in a strongly magnetized plasma, as a function of the electron number density, is compared with the unmagnetized plasma limit. It is found that the presence of the strong magnetic field in the electron plasma suppresses the catalyzing influence of the plasma by itself on the sterile-neutrino decay rate.
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