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Neutron Beta Decay in a Left-Right Symmetric Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-16 v1

Abstract

We start from a Left-Right Symmetric Model and we analyze the beta decay of the free neutron np+e+νˉen\to p+e^{-}+\bar{\nu}_{e}. We applied this model to incorporate the right currents, whereby we propose an amplitude whose leptonic part contains the parameter λ\lambda defined as left-right asymmetry parameter which measures the parity violation. The analysis consists of seeing how the spectrum of energy of the electrons, the total rate of decay, and the lifetime τ\tau of the neutron are affected by the left-right asymmetry parameter, besides taking into account corrections of mass, that is, me0m_{e}\neq 0, mpmnm_{p}\neq m_{n}, and the recoil of the proton.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112111,
  title  = {Neutron Beta Decay in a Left-Right Symmetric Model},
  author = {A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and M. A. Hernández-Ruíz and C. López-González and M. Maya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112111},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures

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