Starting from a Dirac equation for massless neutrino in a 5D Ricci-flat background metric, we obtain the effective 4D equation for massive neutrino in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) background metric from an extended SdS 5D Ricci-flat metric. We use the fact that the spin connection is defined to an accuracy of a vector, so that the covariant derivative of the spinor field is strongly dependent of the background geometry. We show that the mass of the neutrino can be induced from the extra space-like dimension.
The study of wave scattering in black hole spacetimes is crucial to the understanding of the signals expected to be received by the new generation of gravitational-wave detectors in the near future [1]. Since the linear perturbations of black holes are represented by fields of integral spins, the study of the scattering of wave fields are concentrated on these cases while that of the Dirac fields are thus less common, especially for the massive ones [2]. The neutrino does not respond directly to electric or magnetic fields. Therefore, if one wishes to influence its orbit by forces subject to simple analysis, one has to make use of gravitational fields. In other words, one has to consider the physics of a neutrino in a curved metric.
There are both numerical and analytical methods in solving the various wave equations in black hole scattering [3]. Other approximated solutions can be obtained using the semianalytic WKB approximation [4], which has been proven to be very useful and accurate in many cases like, for example, the evaluation of the quasi normal mode frequencies [5]. Quasi normal modes frequencies has been obtained using approximated analytical solutions with SUSY for massless neutrinos [7].
On the other hand, the extension of 4D spacetime to N(≥ 5)D manifolds is the preferred route to a unification of the interactions of particle physics with gravity. The two approaches to 5D relativity of most current interest are brane theory and induced matter theory, which are mathematically equivalent [6]. The former commonly uses the warp metric in 5D, and in general leads to an extra force on a massive particle in 4D [8], where however the particle can travel on a null path in 5D [9]. Similar results were found previously for induced-matter theory, which commonly uses the canonical metric in 5D to isolate the fifth force [10] and examine null geodesics in 5D [11]. These investigations are classical in nature, but clearly invite an examination of the corresponding picture in quantum theory. In a more recent work was examined the 4D Klein-Gordon and Dirac equation from 5D null paths [12].
In this letter we shall study the 4D Dirac equation for neutral 1/2-spin fermions with mass (neutrinos) which are close to a non-rotating SdS black hole, but using a extended SdS, which describes a 5D vacuum on a 5D Ricci-flat metric. We shall consider that the space-like extra coordinate is noncompact.
We shall consider the 5D Ricci-flat (R AB = 0 and then the Ricci scalar R = 0) metric g AB , given by the line element [13]
where f (r) = 1 -(2Gζψ 0 /(rc 2 ))[1 + c 2 r 3 /(2Gζψ 3 0 )] is a dimensionless function, {t, r, θ, φ} are the usual local spacetime spherical coordinates employed in general relativity and ψ is the noncompact space-like extra dimension. Furthermore, ψ and r have length units, θ and φ are angular coordinates, t is a time-like coordinate, c denotes the speed of light, ψ 0 is an arbitrary constant with length units and the constant parameter ζ has units of (mass)(length) -1 .
We are concerned with a 5D spacetime as a main bundle and U(1) its structural group.
Einstein’s 4D spacetime is the usual base of this bundle, so, physical fields will not depend on the extra coordinate.
To define a 5D vacuum we shall consider a Lagrangian for a massless 5D spinor field minimally coupled to gravity
where K = 8πG c 4 and γ A are the Dirac matrices which satisfy
such that the covariant derivative of the spinor Ψ on (1) is defined in the following form:
and the spin connection is given by Minskowsky spacetime in cartesian coordinates), which we introduce in order to generalize the well known 4D vierbein [18], but to relate the extended Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric
(1) with the 5D Minkowsky spacetime written in cartesian coordinates:
The Dirac matrices γ a are represented in an Euclidean space instead in a Lorentzian space, and are described by the algebra [19,20]:
such that γ 4 = iγ 0 γ 1 γ 2 γ 3 , and the σ i
are the Pauli matrices.
The stress tensor for free massless neutrinos is
For a Ricci-flat metric, like (1), the expectation value of this tensor would be zero: T a b = 0. Therefore, in a Ricci-flat metric the following condition must be hold
Finally, using the fact that γ A = e A a γ a , we obtain that the Dirac equation on the metric (1), when we use 3D spherical cordinates (r, θ, φ), is
where γ r is defined as
and the ordinary angular momentum operators are
so that
We consider the 5D Dirac equation (11). We can make the ansatz: Ψ(t, r, θφ, ψ) = Ψ(t, r, θ, φ) Υ(ψ), such that the equation for Υ(ψ) is
m = m 0 /ψ 0 being a separation constant.
The solution for the equation ( 15) is
where Υ 0 is a constant of integration. On the other hand, for m 0 < 2 the function Υ(ψ) tends to 0 for ψ → ±∞, but is divergent for ψ → 0. In order to the function Υ(ψ) to be real, we must ask m 0 take integer unbounded values: m 0 = …, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2, …. It appears to be a form of quantization. In the figu
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