Neutrino mass from bremsstrahlung endpoint in coherent scattering on nuclei
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-01-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We calculate the coherent bremsstrahlung process off a nucleus with the aim of revealing the neutrino mass via the photon endpoint spectrum. Unfortunately, the large required power of a monochromatic neutrino source and/or large detector mass make it difficult to compete with traditional electron-spectrum endpoint measurements in nuclear decay. Our neutral-current process distinguishes between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos, but the change of the photon spectrum is of the order of and thus very small, despite the final-state neutrino coming to rest at the photon endpoint. So the "Dirac-Majorana confusion theorem" remains intact even if applies only for the initial state.
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@article{arxiv.1810.06584,
title = {Neutrino mass from bremsstrahlung endpoint in coherent scattering on nuclei},
author = {Alexander Millar and Georg Raffelt and Leo Stodolsky and Edoardo Vitagliano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06584},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. v2: matches published version