Abstract
Core collapse supernovae are dominated by weakly interacting neutrinos. This provides a unique opportunity for macroscopic parity violation. We speculate that parity violation in a strong magnetic field can lead to an asymmetry in the explosion and a recoil of the newly formed neutron star. We estimate the size of this asymmetry from neutrino polarized-neutron elastic scattering, polarized electron capture and neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering in a (partially) polarized electron gas.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 281-289 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nuclear Physics A |
| Volume | 640 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 14 Sep 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the DOE under grant numbers DE-FG02-87ER40365,
Funding
This work was supported by the DOE under grant numbers DE-FG02-87ER40365,
| Funders | Funder number |
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| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-FG02-87ER40365 |