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In addition to their broad physics reach enabled by their high energies and precision, future multi-TeV muon colliders will also be the world's most intense sources of neutrinos. This offers the opportunity to search for new non-standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Felix Kling , Yang Ma , Krzysztof Mękała , Jürgen Reuter , Zahra Tabrizi

Efficient oscillations between ordinary (active) and sterile neutrinos can occur only if Dirac and Majorana mass terms exist which are both small and comparable. It is shown that this can occur naturally in a class of string models, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Langacker

We study the most general Fierz identities for a pair of non-contracted Dirac matrices both in the standard basis and for chiral spinors. These identities are useful in building independent effective operators of fermions that involve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-25 Yi Liao , Ji-Yuan Liu

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

Non-standard scenarios described by effective contactlike interactions can be revealed only by searching for deviations of the measured observables from the Standard Model (SM) predictions. If deviations were indeed observed within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-16 A. A. Pankov , N. Paver , A. V. Tsytrinov

We find an intriguing relation between neutrino and charged fermion masses, $|m_{\nu_3^{}}^2- m_{\nu_1^{}}^2| : (m_{\nu_2^{}}^2- m_{\nu_1^{}}^2):: V_{tb}^4 m_\tau^2 m_b^2/m_t^2 : V_{cs}^4 m_\mu^2 m_s^2/m_c^2$. We further indicate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Pei-Hong Gu

In the simple model of neutrino texture presented in this paper, the Majorana left-handed mass matrix is zero, the Majorana righthanded mass matrix - diagonal and degenerate, and the Dirac mass matrix has a hierarchical structure, deformed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wojciech Krolikowski

The possibility of direct detection of light fermionic dark matter in neutrino detectors is explored from a model-independent standpoint. We consider all operators of dimension six or lower which can contribute to the interaction $\bar{f} p…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-07 Jennifer Kile , Amarjit Soni

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 discuss ways to explore non-standard interactions (NSI) which neutrinos may possess by expressing them as effective four Fermi operators with coefficient of the order of (M_{W} / M_{NP})^2 ~0.01 (0.0001) for energy scales of new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-19 Hisakazu Minakata

A Neutrino Factory where neutrinos of all species are produced in equal quantities by muon decay is described as a facility at the intensity frontier for exquisite precision providing ideal conditions for ultimate neutrino studies and the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 J-P. Delahaye , C. M. Ankenbrandt , S. A. Bogacz , P. Huber , H. G. Kirk , D. Neuffer , M. A. Palmer , R. Ryne , P. V. Snopok

Measurements of neutral current processes off the $Z$-peak are sensitive probes of new interactions, which may be induced by the exchange of new particles such as leptoquarks or extra $Z$'s. This talk reviews the phenomenology of extra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dieter Zeppenfeld , Kingman Cheung

We study massive Majorana neutrinos in background matter. Representing these particles in terms of Weyl spinors, we carry out their quantization. The propagators of these fields are also constructed. Then, we apply the Hamilton dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Maxim Dvornikov

In this II, a probability to detect the neutrino produced in a high-energy pion decay is shown to receive the large finite-size correction. The neutrino interacts extremely weakly with matters and is described with a many-body wave function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-26 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

For Majorana or Dirac neutrinos, using Fritzsch-like texture 4 zero mass matrices with parallel texture structures for the charged leptons and the Dirac neutrino mass matrix (M_{\nu D}), detailed predictions for cases pertaining to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gulsheen Ahuja , Sanjeev Kumar , Monika Randhawa , Manmohan Gupta , S. Dev

We point out that the minimal seesaw model can provide a natural framework to accommodate tiny neutrino masses, while its experimental testability and notable predictiveness are still maintained. This possibility is based on the observation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 He Zhang , Shun Zhou

We study the effects of four-fermion interaction and impurity on the low-energy states of two-dimensional semi-Dirac materials by virtue of the unbiased renormalization group approach. The coupled flow equations that govern the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-18 Jing Wang

We discuss the sensitivity reach of a neutrino factory measurement to non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI), which may exist as a low-energy manifestation of physics beyond the Standard Model. We use the muon appearance mode \nu_e -->…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 N. Cipriano Ribeiro , H. Minakata , H. Nunokawa , S. Uchinami , R. Zukanovich Funchal

We confront measurable neutrino degrees of freedom $N_{\rm eff}$ and summed neutrino mass in the early universe to particle physics at the energy scale beyond the standard model (BSM), in particular including the issue of neutrino mass type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-27 N. Sasao , M. Yoshimura , M. Tanaka

We study the LHC discovery potential for heavy Majorana neutrino singlets in the process pp -> W+ -> l+ N -> l+ l+ jj (l=e,mu) plus its charge conjugate. With a fast detector simulation we show that backgrounds involving two like-sign…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. del Aguila , J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , R. Pittau