Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4314 - 4317 (1997)

Neutrino-Modulino Mixing

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Karim Benakli1 and Alexei Yu. Smirnov2
1Physics Department, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242
2International Center for Theoretical Physics, 34100 Trieste, Italy

Received 7 July 1997

We suggest an existence of light singlet fermion, S, which interacts with observable matter only via Planck mass suppressed interaction: ∼m3/2/MP, where m3/2 is the supergravity gravitino mass. If the mass of the singlet equals ∼m3/22/MP, then νeS resonance conversion solves the solar neutrino problem or leads to observable effects. The νS mixing changes supernova neutrino fluxes and has an impact on the primordial nucleosynthesis. The singlet S can originate as the supersymmetric partner of the moduli fields in supergravity or low energy effective theory stemming from superstrings. The νS mixing may be accompanied by observable R-parity breaking effects.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/p4314
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4314
PACS: 14.60.Pq, 04.65.+e, 12.60.Jv, 26.65.+t

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