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Scale of Mass Generation for Majorana Neutrinos

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Scales of mass generation for Majorana neutrinos (as well as quarks and leptons) can be probed from high energy 2 --> n inelastic scattering involving a multiple longitudinal gauge boson final state. We demonstrate that the unitarity of 2 --> n scattering puts the strongest new upper limit on the scale of fermion mass generation, independent of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale v=(2GF)1/2v=(\sqrt{2}G_F)^{-1/2}. Strikingly, for Majorana neutrinos (quarks and leptons), we find that the strongest 2 --> n limits fall in a narrow range, 136-170 TeV (3-107 TeV) with n=20-24 (n=2-12), depending on the observed fermion masses. Physical implications are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411024,
  title  = {Scale of Mass Generation for Majorana Neutrinos},
  author = {Duane A. Dicus and Hong-Jian He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411024},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Presented at the Conference of the Division of Particles and Fields, American Physical Society (DPF-2004), held at University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, August 26-31, 2004