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The neutrino ground state in a neutron star

Ken Kiers, Michel H. G. Tytgat

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9807412

Abstract

We address a recent claim that the stability of neutron stars implies a lower bound on the mass of the neutrino. We argue that the result obtained by some previous authors is due to an improper summation of an infrared-sensitive series and that a non-perturbative "resummation" of the series yields a finite and well-behaved result. The stability of neutron stars thus gives no lower bound on the mass of the neutrino.

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