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Signatures for Majorana neutrinos in $e^- \gamma$ collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study the possibilities to detect Majorana neutrinos in eγe^- \gamma colliders for different center of mass energies. We study the WWlj+(lj+e+,μ+,τ+)W^- W^- l_j^{+}(l_j^+\equiv e^+ ,\mu^+ ,\tau^+) final state which are, due to leptonic number violation, a clear signature for intermediate Majorana neutrino contribution. Such a signal (final lepton have the opposite charge of the initial lepton) is not possible if the heavy neutrinos are Dirac particles. In our calculation we use the helicity formalism to obtain analytic expressions for the amplitude and we have considered that the intermediate neutrinos can be either on shell or off shell. Finally we present our results for the total cross-section and for the angular distribution of the final lepton. We also include a discussion on the expected events number as a function of the input parameters.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0105162,
  title  = {Signatures for Majorana neutrinos in $e^- \gamma$ collider},
  author = {J. Peressutti and O. A. Sampayo and Jorge Isidro Aranda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0105162},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex file with 12 pages and 6 figures. Submited to Phys. Rev. D