Determining Amino Acid Chirality in the Supernova Neutrino Processing Model

Michael Famiano; Richard Boyd; Toshitaka Kajino; Takashi Onaka; Katrina Koehler; Sarah Hulbert

doi:10.3390/sym6040909

Symmetry (Nov 2014)

Determining Amino Acid Chirality in the Supernova Neutrino Processing Model

Michael Famiano,
Richard Boyd,
Toshitaka Kajino,
Takashi Onaka,
Katrina Koehler,
Sarah Hulbert

Affiliations

Michael Famiano: Physics Department, Western Michigan University, 1900 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo,MI 49008, USA
Richard Boyd: Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Toshitaka Kajino: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
Takashi Onaka: Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Katrina Koehler: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Sarah Hulbert: Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/sym6040909
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 4
pp. 909 – 925

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A model is described that can be used to estimate the bulk polarization of largerotating meteoroids in the magnetic field of a neutron star. The results of this model areapplicable to the Supernova Neutrino Amino Acid Processing model, which describes onepossible way in which the amino acids, known in nearly all cases to exhibit supramolecularchirality, could have become enantiomeric.

Published in Symmetry

ISSN: 2073-8994 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Mathematics
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/

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