Pulsar velocities without neutrino mass
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D. Grasso; H. Nunokawa; J.W.F. Valle
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We show that pulsar velocities may arise from anisotropic neutrino emission induced by resonant conversions of massless neutrinos in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The main ingredient is a small weak universality violation and neither neutrino masses nor magnetic moments are required.