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The tree level diagonalization of a neutrino mass matrix with both Majorana and Dirac masses is discussed in a general context. Flavor changing neutral currents in such models are inevitable. Rephasing invariant quantities characterizing CP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Dan-Di Wu

We evaluate the Majorana phases for a general $3\times3$ complex symmetric neutrino mass matrix on the basis of Mohapatra-Rodejohann's phase convention using the three rephasing invariant quantities $I_{12}$, $I_{13}$ and $I_{23}$ proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Rome Samanta , Mainak Chakraborty , Ambar Ghosal

At the availability of a nonzero mass, the same neutrino regardless of whether it refers to Dirac or Majorana fermions, must possess simultaneously each of the anapole and electric dipole moments. Their interaction with the field of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Rasulkhozha S. Sharafiddinov

The present work is devoted to the characterization of the Leggett-Garg inequality for three-flavoured neutrino oscillations in presence of both matter and Charge-Conjugation and Parity violating (CP) effects. This study complements and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-08 Javid Naikoo , Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Subhashish Banerjee , S. Uma Sankar

We discuss the possibility to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in the context of the minimal gauge theory for neutrino masses, the B-L gauge extension of the Standard Model. We revisit the possibility to observe lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Alexis D. Plascencia

We present a classification of possible parametrizations of the 3x3 lepton flavor mixing matrix in terms of the rotation and phase angles. A particular parametrization, which is most convenient to describe the observables of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Harald Fritzsch , Zhi-zhong Xing

(abridged) The physical mechanisms that make a neutrino with standard-model (SM) weak interactions a "lepton-number conservation (LNC) violating" neutrino such as the Majorana neutrino are analysed in a basis of two Majorana states that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-17 R. Plaga

If the massive neutrinos are identified to be the Majorana particles via a convincing measurement of the neutrinoless double beta (0\nu\beta\beta) decay, how to determine the Majorana CP-violating phases in the 3 x 3 lepton flavor mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 Zhi-zhong Xing , Ye-Ling Zhou

The ``Practical Dirac-Majorana Confusion Theorem'' (PDMCT) asserts that phenomenological differences between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos are suppressed by $(m_\nu/E)^2$ in lepton-number-conserving processes, such that at high energy, it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 David Delepine , A. Yebra

The compelling experimental evidences for oscillations of solar, reactor, atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos imply the existence of 3-neutrino mixing in the weak charged lepton current. The current data on the 3-neutrino mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-26 S. T. Petcov

Given the Dirac neutrino mass term, we explore the constraint conditions which allow the corresponding mass matrix to be invariant under the \mu-\tau reflection transformation, leading us to the phenomenologically favored predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Zhi-zhong Xing , Di Zhang , Jing-yu Zhu

Recently, there has been a growing interest in extensions of the Standard Model in which naturally small Dirac neutrino masses arise due to existence of a symmetry which protects neutrino's Diracness. Motivated by this, we consider an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-11 S. S. Correia , R. G. Felipe , F. R. Joaquim

We propose a $U(1)_L$ model with $A_4$ symmetry in light of the linear seesaw for majorana neutrino that capable of generating the current lepton and quark mass and mixing patterns. The smallness of Majorana neutrino mass is reproduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-09 V. V. Vien

In the inverse seesaw extension of the standard model, supersymmetric or non-supersymmetric, while the light left-handed neutrinos are Majorana, the heavy right-handed neutrinos are pseudo-Dirac fermions. We show how one of these latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-22 Ram Lal Awasthi , M. K. Parida , Sudhanwa Patra

We study the minimal seesaw model, where two right-handed Majorana neutrinos are introduced, focusing on the CP violating phase. In addition, we take the trimaximal mixing pattern for the neutrino flavor where the charged lepton mass matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Yusuke Shimizu , Kenta Takagi , Morimitsu Tanimoto

The neutrino oscillation experiments provide definitive evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), and the neutrino mass-squared differences and flavor mixing have been precisely measured. This study examines the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 Jin-Lei Yang , Jie Li

In the presence of independent generations of leptons, I show that the same type of ambiguity in the mass spectrum arises as was discussed in ref.[1] for neutral kaons. It results from the freedom to add to their Majorana mass matrix,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Machet

In view of recent measurements of the mixing angle \theta_{13} a possibility to determine the difference of two CP Majorana phases of the neutrino mixing matrix from the study of neutrinoless double-beta decay is investigated. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Simkovic , S. M. Bilenky , Amand Faessler , Th. Gutsche

In the first part of the note, we consider a neutrino texture, where the Dirac and righthanded Majorana masses are proportional. If the former are approximately proportional also to the charged lepton masses, then taking $\Delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Krolikowski

We present an analysis of normal and inverted hierarchical neutrino mass models within the framework of tri-bi-maximal (TBM) mixing. Considering the neutrinos to be quasi-degenerate (QDN), we study two different neutrino mass models with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Mrinal Kumar Das , Debasish Borah , Rinku Mishra