Magnetic field instability in a neutron star driven by the electroweak electron-nucleon interaction

por Victor Semikoz (IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia)

martes 5 may. 2015 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Seminar Room 1.1.1 (IFIC)

We study the instability of magnetic fields in a neutron star core driven by the parity violating part of the electron-nucleon interaction in the Standard Model. We suggest a possible explanation of the origin of the strongest magnetic fields observed in astrophysics.