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The neutrino force results from the exchange of a pair of neutrinos. A neutrino background can significantly influence this force. In this work, we present a comprehensive calculation of the neutrino force in various neutrino backgrounds with spin dependence taken into account. In particular, we calculate the spin-independent and spin-dependent parity-conserving neutrino forces, in addition to the spin-dependent parity-violating neutrino forces with and without the presence of a neutrino background for both isotropic and anisotropic backgrounds. Compared with the vacuum case, the neutrino background can effectively violate Lorentz invariance and lead to additional parity-violating terms that are not suppressed by the velocity of external particles. We estimate the magnitude of the effect of atomic parity-violation experiments, and it turns out to be well below the current experimental sensitivity.
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The work of MG is supported in part by the US Department of Energy grant DE-SC0010102. YG is supported in part by the NSF grant PHY-2014071. WT is supported by the NSF Grant No. PHY-2310224. BY is supported by the Samsung Science Technology Foundation under Project Number SSTF-BA2201-06. XJX is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 12141501 and also by the CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research (YSBR-099).
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Ghosh, M., Grossman, Y., Tangarife, W. et al. The neutrino force in neutrino backgrounds: Spin dependence and parity-violating effects. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 107 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)107
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