Electromagnetic catalysis of the radiative transitions of $ν_i \rightarrow ν_j γ$ type in the field of an intense monochromatic wave

Abstract

The radiative decay of the massive neutrino $ν_i \rightarrow ν_j γ$ in a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is investigated within the Standard theory with lepton mixing. The decay probability in the wave field does not contain a threshold factor $\sim ( 1 - m_i / m_j )$ as opposed to the decay probability in a vacuum or in a constant uniform external field. The phenomenon of the gigantic enhancement ( $\sim 10^{33}$ ) of the neutrino decay probability in external wave field is discovered. The probability of the photon splitting into the neutrino pair is obtained. (Published in Phys.Lett.B 321 (1994) 108).