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1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
A Lagrangian formalism for self-consistent collective neutrino-plasma interactions is presented in which each neutrino species is described as a classical ideal fluid. The neutrino-plasma fluid equations are derived from a covariant relativistic variational principle in which finite-temperature effects are retained. This formalism is then used to investigate the generation of magnetic fields and the production of magnetic helicity as a result of collective neutrino-plasma interactions.
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