Determining Amino Acid Chirality in the Supernova Neutrino Processing Model

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA;E-Mail: katrina.koehler@gmail.com* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: michael.famiano@gmail.com;Tel.: +1-608-425-0767.External Editor: Victor BorovkovReceived: 19 July 2014; in revised form: 14 October 2014 / Accepted: 27 October 2014 /Published: 3 November 2014Abstract: 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.Keywords: amino acids; chirality; neutrinos; weak interaction

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