Plasma induced fermion spin-flip conversion $f_L \to f_R + \gamma$

Abstract

The fermion spin-flip conversion $f_L \to f_R + \gamma$ is considered, caused by the difference of the additional energies of the electroweak origin, acquired by left- and right-handed fermions (neutrino, electron) in medium. An accurate taking account of the fermion and photon dispersion in medium is shown to be important.