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Prospects for observing chiral symmetry breaking in lepton colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-17 v1

Abstract

Weak interactions in neutron β\beta-decay exhibit parity violation through the preferential emission of right-handed antineutrinos. We identify this symmetry breaking with a reduction of phase space due to the small neutrino mass. During a brief interval of momentum exchange, a small mass neutrino puts the emission process close to the bifurcation horizon of Rindler space, doubly covered by Minkowski space M{\cal M} as dictated by the Equivalence Principle of general relativity. In the limit of arbitrarily small mass, this two-sheet covering effectively collapses into a single sheet, reducing the dimension of Dirac spinors from four to two, leaving neutrinos single-handed. This predicts a similar reduction to single-handed particle states in electrons created at TeV energies, which may be tested with the planned linear leptonic colliders. If confirmed, right-handed small mass neutrinos are expected to exist at sufficiently low energies.

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@article{arxiv.2502.09855,
  title  = {Prospects for observing chiral symmetry breaking in lepton colliders},
  author = {Maurice H. P. M. van Putten and Maryam A. Abchouyeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.09855},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures