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A comment on lepton mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Since right-handed neutrinos, if added to the Standard Model, have no gauge interactions, their kinetic terms can be mixed. I examine the related rotations of the gauge eigenstates in order to derive the propagators for the kinetic and mass terms, and I comment on the resulting lepton mixing, on the possibility of not having well-defined mass eigenstates, and on the modifications to weak contributions and observables (anomalous magnetic moment, muon decay, neutrino oscillations).

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@article{arxiv.2109.09603,
  title  = {A comment on lepton mixing},
  author = {Dimitrios Metaxas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09603},
  year   = {2022}
}

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