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Matter effects on Majorana neutrino phases

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider the effect of ambient matter on the Majorana phase of neutrinos. We find that this can lead to an observable signal if a neutrino oscillation experiment could be performed where the source and the detector are at appropriately different matter densities. We illustrate the situation using a beta beam neutrino source as an example and show that a 5 sigma signal for the matter modification of the Majorana phase could be possible in a 5-year run.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503010,
  title  = {Matter effects on Majorana neutrino phases},
  author = {Amitava Raychaudhuri and Shashank M. Shalgar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503010},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure, Latex