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Measuring CP violation in rare $W$ decays at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-05 v1

Abstract

Heavy Majorana neutrinos beyond the standard model can simultaneously explain the origin of tiny neutrino masses and matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe. The existence of heavy Majorana neutrinos will also lead to lepton number violation and the rare lepton-number-violating WW decays are possible. With contributions from two different Majorana neutrinos, a nonzero CP asymmetry may be generated from the rate difference between WW decay and its CP-conjugate process. The aim of this paper is to investigate the prospects for measuring CP violation in rare WW decays via Majorana neutrinos at the LHC. Our calculations show that the induced CP asymmetry is independent of the Majorana neutrino mass for 10 GeV<mN<70 GeV10~ \rm GeV < m_N < 70 ~\rm GeV. Such a CP asymmetry if observed, would in turn provide unambiguous evidence of new physics beyond the standard model.

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@article{arxiv.2203.13454,
  title  = {Measuring CP violation in rare $W$ decays at the LHC},
  author = {Peng-Cheng Lu and Zong-Guo Si and Zhe Wang and Xing-Hua Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.13454},
  year   = {2022}
}

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