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Velocities of pulsars and neutrino oscillations

Alexander Kusenko, Gino Segre

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9606428

Abstract

Neutrino oscillations, biased by the magnetic field, alter the shape of the neutrinosphere in a cooling protoneutron star emerging from the supernova collapse. The resulting anisotropy in the momentum of outgoing neutrinos can be the origin of the observed proper motions of pulsars. The connection between the pulsars velocities and neutrino oscillations results in a prediction for the tau neutrino mass of order 100 eV.

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