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Docta Complutense
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Dobado González, Antonio
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Bargueño, P.
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Gonzalo Fonrodona, Isabel
2023-06-20T10:35:04Z
2023-06-20T10:35:04Z
2008-04
0295-5075
10.1209/0295-5075/82/13002
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50654
http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/82/1/13002
http://iopscience.iop.orghttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2164
We examine the effect of cold dark matter on the discrimination between the two enantiomers of a chiral molecule. We estimate the energy difference between the two enantiomers due to the interaction between fermionic WIMPs (weak interacting massive particles) and molecular electrons on the basis that electrons have opposite helicities in opposite enantiomers. It is found that this energy difference is completely negligible. Dark matter could then be discarded as an inductor of chiroselection between enantiomers and then of biological homochirality. However, the effect of cosmological neutrinos, revisited with the currently accepted neutrino density, would reach, in the most favorable case, an upper bound of the same order of magnitude as the energy difference obtained from the well-known electroweak electron-nucleus interaction in some molecules.
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Could dark matter or neutrinos discriminate between the enantiomers of a chiral molecule?
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