Prospects for observing chiral symmetry breaking in lepton colliders
Abstract
Weak interactions in neutron -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 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