Dirac-Majorana neutrinos distinction in four-body decays
Abstract
A novel method to differentiate the effects of Dirac and Majorana (D-M) neutrinos in four-body decays has been discussed in arXiv:2106.11785. There, it is concluded that the back-to-back kinematic scenario seems to avoid the constraint imposed by the "practical Dirac-Majorana confusion theorem", as one does not need to fully integrate over neutrino and antineutrino momenta. In this paper, we propose to analyse radiative leptonic lepton-decays (), as an independent alternative process to study the possible Majorana nature of neutrinos. Our approach demonstrates that, in the back-to-back kinematic configuration (for the and systems, respectively), the distinction between Dirac and Majorana cases disappears when the inaccessible neutrino angle is integrated out, which might appear unexpected considering the claims in arXiv:2106.11785. Our results apply in absence of non-standard interactions, which can enhance generally the sensitivity to the neutrino nature.
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@article{arxiv.2305.14140,
title = {Dirac-Majorana neutrinos distinction in four-body decays},
author = {Juan Manuel Márquez and Diego Portillo-Sánchez and Pablo Roig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14140},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
30 pages, 7 figures. To match with published version. It replies all points raised in the comments arXiv:2308.08464