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A Nondiagonal Pair of Majorana Particles at $e^+e^-$ Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We perform a comprehensive and model-independent analysis for characterizing the spin and dynamical structure of the production of a non-diagonal pair of Majorana particles with different masses and arbitrary spins, ee+X2X1e^-e^+\to X_2 X_1, followed by a sequential two-body decay, X2ZX1X_2\to Z X_1, of the heavier particle X2X_2 into a ZZ gauge boson and the lighter particle X1X_1 escaping undetected at high-energy e+ee^+e^- colliders. Standard leptonic ZZ-boson decays, Z+Z\to \ell^-\ell^+ with =e\ell=e or μ\mu, are employed for precisely diagnosing the ZZ polarization influenced by the production and decay processes. Based on helicity formalism and Wick helicity rotation for describing the correlated production-decay amplitudes and distributions, we work out the implications on the amplitudes and distributions of discrete CP symmetry and the Majorana condition that two particles are their own anti-particles. For the sake of a concrete illustration, an example of this type in the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model is investigated in detail.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.14613,
  title  = {A Nondiagonal Pair of Majorana Particles at $e^+e^-$ Colliders},
  author = {Seong Youl Choi and Jae Hoon Jeong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14613},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 eps figures

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