1998/07/18 by Ken Kiers, Michel H. G. Tytgat, Michel H.G. Tytgat
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00464-8
published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 77 (1999) 445-449 · 5 pages, 3 figures, Latex (uses espcrc2.sty); contribution to the proceedings of Neutrino 98, Takayama, Japan, 4-9 June, 1998
arxiv created 1998/07/18 · openalex publication_date 1999/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We address a recent claim that the stability of neutron stars implies a lower bound on the mass of the neutrino. We argue that the result obtained by some previous authors is due to an improper summation of an infrared-sensitive series and that a non-perturbative "resummation" of the series yields a finite and well-behaved result. The stability of neutron stars thus gives no lower bound on the mass of the neutrino.