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Absolute neutrino mass and the Dirac/Majorana distinction from the weak interaction of aggregate matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-05-20 v1

Abstract

The 2ν\nu-mediated force has a range of microns, well beyond the atomic scale. The effective potential is built from the t-channel absorptive part of the scattering amplitude and depends on neutrino properties on-shell. We demonstrate that neutral aggregate matter has a weak charge and calculate the matrix of six coherent charges for its interaction with definite-mass neutrinos. Near the range of the potential the neutrino pair is non-relativistic, leading to observable absolute mass and Dirac/Majorana distinction via different r-dependence and violation of the weak equivalence principle.

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@article{arxiv.2001.05900,
  title  = {Absolute neutrino mass and the Dirac/Majorana distinction from the weak interaction of aggregate matter},
  author = {Alejandro Segarra and Jose Bernabeu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05900},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table