Neutrino spin oscillations in a magnetized Polish doughnut

M Dvornikov - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
M Dvornikov
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023iopscience.iop.org
We study the gravitational scattering of ultrarelativistic neutrinos off a rotating supermassive
black hole (BH) surrounded by a thick magnetized accretion disk. Neutrinos interact
electroweakly with background matter and with the magnetic field in the disk since neutrinos
are supposed to possess nonzero magnetic moments. The interaction with external fields
results in neutrino spin oscillations. We find that the toroidal magnetic field, inherent in the
magnetized Polish doughnut, does not cause a significant spin-flip for any reasonable …
Abstract
We study the gravitational scattering of ultrarelativistic neutrinos off a rotating supermassive black hole (BH) surrounded by a thick magnetized accretion disk. Neutrinos interact electroweakly with background matter and with the magnetic field in the disk since neutrinos are supposed to possess nonzero magnetic moments. The interaction with external fields results in neutrino spin oscillations. We find that the toroidal magnetic field, inherent in the magnetized Polish doughnut, does not cause a significant spin-flip for any reasonable strengths of the toroidal component. The reduction of the observed neutrino flux, owing to neutrino spin oscillations, is predicted. A poloidal component of the magnetic field gives the main contribution to the modification of the observed flux. The neutrino interaction with matter, rotating with relativistic velocities, also changes the flux of neutrinos. We briefly discuss the idea of the neutrino tomography of magnetic field distributions in accretion disks near BHs.
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