Long-Range Forces from Neutrino-Pair Exchange

1968/02/25 by G. Feinberg, J. Sucher · 1 voice · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · doi:10.1103/physrev.166.1638

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Abstract

The long-range forces arising from neutrino-pair exchange between elementary systems are studied with the use of dispersion-theoretic techniques previously applied to the study of multiphoton exchange. It is shown that the potential decreases as r^\ensuremath-5 for large separation r, independently of the particles or systems under consideration. The weak lepton-lepton force does not seem to be observable at present in laboratory experiments. The long-range forces on neutrinos are also studied. For the case of two neutral molecules, a numerical comparison is made of the three types of long-range forces: gravitational, electromagnetic, and weak.

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Discussions

• To a large extent this depends on what one means by "force", which is really only a clear notion in classical physics. In quantum field theories, one has lots of interactions, and what people often me [stackexchange, 0 points]