Addressing the Majorana vs. Dirac Question Using Neutrino Decays
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-05-22 v1
Abstract
We explain why it is so hard to determine whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles as long as the only neutrinos we study are ultra-relativistic. We then show how non-relativistic neutrinos could help, and focus on the angular distributions in the decays of an as-yet-to-be-discovered heavy neutrino . We find that these angular distributions could very well tell us whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles.
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@article{arxiv.1805.07523,
title = {Addressing the Majorana vs. Dirac Question Using Neutrino Decays},
author = {Boris Kayser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07523},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
4 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of the 53rd Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak session of March 2018