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Finding out if neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles is known to be extremely difficult due to the smallness of neutrino mass and the fact that in the limit $m_\nu=0$ both Dirac and Majorana neutrinos become Weyl particles, i.e. are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-04 Evgeny Akhmedov , Andreas Trautner

Neutrinos are the only known elementary fermions that can exhibit Majorana nature. As per the "practical Dirac-Majorana confusion theorem" it is impossible to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via any kinematic tests when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 C. S. Kim , Dibyakrupa Sahoo

The nature of a neutrino, whether it is a Dirac type or Majorana type, may be comprehensively probed using their quantum statistical properties. If the neutrino is a Majorana fermion, then by definition it is identical and indistinguishable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-05 C. S. Kim , M. V. N. Murthy , Dibyakrupa Sahoo

Recently, there has been interest in the applicability of quantum statistics to distinguish Dirac from Majorana neutrinos in multi-neutrino final states. In particular, debate has arisen over the validity of the Dirac-Majorana confusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Innes Bigaran , Stephen J. Parke , Pedro Pasquini

Using the well established principles of Lorentz invariance, CP and CPT symmetry, and quantum statistics we do a model-independent study of effects of possible non-standard couplings of (Dirac and Majorana) neutrinos. The study is sensitive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-28 C. S. Kim , Janusz Rosiek , Dibyakrupa Sahoo

We inspect the model-independent study of practical Dirac Majorana confusion theorem (pDMCT) -- a wide spread belief that the difference between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via any kinematical observable would be practically impossible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-27 C. S. Kim

Finding out if neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles is known to be extremely difficult. This is generally believed to be due to the smallness of the neutrino mass compared to typical neutrino energies, and to the fact that in the limit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Evgeny Akhmedov

In arXiv:2305.14140 [hep-ph] the authors analyze the radiative leptonic decay $\ell^- \to \nu_\ell \, \overline{\nu}_{\ell'} \, \ell^{\prime -} \, \gamma$ to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana nature of neutrinos. They utilize the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-26 C. S. Kim , M. V. N. Murthy , Dibyakrupa Sahoo

We explain why it is so hard to determine whether neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac particles as long as the only neutrinos we study are ultra-relativistic. We then show how non-relativistic neutrinos could help, and focus on the angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-22 Boris Kayser

We conduct a model-independent analysis of the distinct signatures of various generic new physics possibilities in the decay $B \to K \, \nu \, \overline{\nu}$ by analyzing the branching ratio as well as the missing mass-square…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 C. S. Kim , Dibyakrupa Sahoo , K. N. Vishnudath

Neutrinos may acquire small Dirac or Majorana masses by new low-energy physics in terms of the chiral gravitational anomaly, as proposed by Dvali and Funcke (2016). This model predicts fast neutrino decays, $\nu_i\to\nu_j+\phi$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-05 Lena Funcke , Georg Raffelt , Edoardo Vitagliano

We revisit the possibility of distinguishing between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos via neutrino-electron elastic scattering in the presence of all possible Lorentz-invariant interactions. Defining proper observables, certain regions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu , Carlos E. Yaguna

Two-particle interferometry, a second-order interference effect, is explored as another possible tool to distinguish between massive Dirac and Majorana neutrinos. A simple theoretical framework is discussed in the context of several…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas D. Gutierrez

A novel method to differentiate the effects of Dirac and Majorana (D-M) neutrinos in four-body decays has been discussed in arXiv:2106.11785. There, it is concluded that the back-to-back kinematic scenario seems to avoid the constraint…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Juan Manuel Márquez , Diego Portillo-Sánchez , Pablo Roig

Are neutrinos with definite masses Majorana or Dirac particles? This is one of the most fundamental problem of the modern neutrino physics. The solution of this problem could be crucial for understanding of the origin of small neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-06 S. Bilenky

The Majorana versus Dirac nature of neutrinos remains an open question. This is due, in part, to the fact that virtually all the experimentally accessible neutrinos are ultra-relativistic. Noting that Majorana neutrinos can behave quite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-09 A. Baha Balantekin , André de Gouvêa , Boris Kayser

We analyse the possibility of distinguishing Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in future neutrino factory experiments in which neutrinos are produced in muon decay when, in addition to a vector type as in the SM, there are also scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert Szafron , Marek Zralek

Neutrinos may be pseudo-Dirac states, such that each generation is actually composed of two maximally-mixed Majorana neutrinos separated by a tiny mass difference. The usual active neutrino oscillation phenomenology would be unaltered if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Dan Hooper , John G. Learned , Sandip Pakvasa , Thomas J. Weiler

We investigate purely leptonic decays of leptons $\l^{\prime-}\to l^-\bar{\nu}_l\nu_{l^{\prime}}$ to distinguish Dirac or Majorana neutrinos. We derive the differences of the decay width (and associated quantities) between the two neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-24 Yao Yu , Bai-Cian Ke

(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
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