DOI 10.1007/s100520000304
Charge and magnetic moment of the neutrino
in the background field method
and in the linear 
gauge
L.G. Cabral-Rosetti1 - J. Bernabéu1 - J. Vidal1 - A. Zepeda2
1 Departament de Física Teòrica, Universitat de València, 46100
Burjassot, València, Spain
2 Centro de Investigaciones y de Estudios Avanzados, del Instituto
Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-I.P.N.), Apartado Postal 14-740, 07000 México, D.F., México
Received: 6 July 1999 / Revised version: 27 October 1999 /
Published online: 27 January 2000 - © Springer-Verlag 2000 2000
Abstract
We present a computation of the charge and the magnetic moment of the
neutrino in the recently developed electro-weak Background Field Method and
in the linear
gauge. First, we deduce a formal Ward-Takahashi
identity which implies the immediate cancellation of the neutrino electric
charge. This Ward-Takahashi identity is as simple as that for QED. The
computation of the (proper and improper) one loop vertex diagrams contributing
to the neutrino electric charge is also presented in an arbitrary gauge,
checking in this way the Ward-Takahashi identity previously obtained. Finally,
the calculation of the magnetic moment of the neutrino, in the minimal
extension of the Standard Model with massive Dirac neutrinos, is presented,
showing its gauge parameter and gauge structure independence explicitly.
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