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NEUTRINO CURRENT IN A GRAVITATIONAL PLANE WAVE COLLISION BACKGROUND

DONATO BINI

Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone", C.N.R., I-00161 Roma, Italy

ICRA International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Rome, I-00185, Italy

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CHRISTIAN CHERUBINI

Department of Physics "E.R. Caianiello", University of Salerno, I-84081, Italy

Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 2EG, UK

ICRA International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Rome, I-00185, Italy

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GIANLUCA CRUCIANI

Department of Physics, University of Perugia, I-06100, Italy

ICRA International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Rome, I-00185, Italy

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ANDREA LUNARI

Department of Physics, University of Como, I-22100, Italy

ICRA International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Rome, I-00185, Italy

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Abstract

The behaviour of a massless Dirac field on a general spacetime background representing two colliding gravitational plane waves is discussed in the Newman–Penrose formalism. The geometrical properties of the neutrino current are analysed and explicit results are given for the special Ferrari–Ibañez solution.

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