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Intrinsic flavor violation for massive neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-12 v3

Abstract

It is shown that intrinsic neutrino flavor violation invariably occurs when neutrinos are created within the SM augmented by the known massive neutrinos, with mixing and nondegenerate masses. The effects are very small but much greater than the naive estimate Δm2/Eν2\Delta m^2/E_\nu^2 or the branching ratio of indirect flavor violating processes such as μeγ\mu\to e\gamma within the SM. We specifically calculate the probability (branching ratio) of pion decay processes with flavor violation, such as πμνˉe\pi\to \mu\bar{\nu}_e, showing nonzero results.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2812,
  title  = {Intrinsic flavor violation for massive neutrinos},
  author = {C. C. Nishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2812},
  year   = {2009}
}

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v3: published version