1996/12/16 by Sarira Sahu
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.56.1688
published as Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 1688-1691 · 11 pages, 2 figures available on request
arxiv created 1996/12/16 · openalex publication_date 1997/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In a relativistic plasma, neutrinos can emit plasmons by the Cherenkov process which is kinematically allowed for a range of frequencies for which the refractive index is greater than one. We calculate the rate of energy emission by this process. We compute the energy deposited in a stalled supernova shock wave by the Cherenkov process and find that it is much smaller than the Bethe-Wilson mechanism.