DECAY OF SPIN-1/2 FIELD AROUND REISSNER–NORDSTROM BLACK HOLE

To find what influence the charge of the black hole Q will bring to the evolution of the quasinormal modes, we calculate the quasinormal frequencies of the neutrino field (charge e=0) perturbations and those of the massless Dirac field (e≠0) perturbations in the RN metric. The influences of Q, e, the momentum quantum number l, and the mode number n are discussed. Among the conclusions, the most important one is that, at the stage of quasinormal ringing, when the black hole and the field have the same kind of charge (eQ>0), the quasinormal modes of the massless charged Dirac field decay faster than those of the neutral ones, and when eQ<0, the massless charged Dirac field decays slower, which may be helpful in the astronomical observation. In addition, we compare the influence from the charge of the black hole to the spin 1/2 field and scalar field perturbations including the extremal limit (M=Q) and find a turning point of Q exists in both cases. The explanation of this fact is unclear with some suggestions that may be helpful are given.

ON PARITY CONSERVATION AND THE QUESTION OF THE 'MISSING' (RIGHT-HANDED) NEUTRINO

The neutrino problem is set anew in the light of a reformulation of the Dirac field theory that provides a natural account for the effect commonly interpreted as 'P-violation', and restores P-mirror symmetry. A two-component (left-handed) neutrino field is automatically derived, whose P-mirror image does not correspond to a 'missing' particle but is the (right-handed) antineutrino field.

MIXING EFFECTS IN SUPERNOVA PROCESSES WITH RIGHT-HANDED NEUTRINOS

The right-handed chiral component of the Dirac neutrino field in a dense medium is derived for two generation mixing. As an application, the modification factor on the luminosity of a supernova core is given for ν+ emission by neutrino-magnetic-moment and neutrino-charge-radius interactions.