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It is still unknown whether the mass terms for neutrinos are of Majorana type or of Dirac type. An interesting possibility, known as pseudo-Dirac scheme combines these two with a dominant Dirac mass term and a subdominant Majorana one. As a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 S. Ansarifard , Y. Farzan

A Majorana mass term for the $\tau$ neutrino would induce neutrino - antineutrino mixing and thereby a process which violates fermion number by two units. We study the possibility of distinguishing between a massive Majorana and a Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Carena , B. Lampe , C. E. M. Wagner

We introduce the Majorana spinors in the momentum representation. They obey the Dirac-like equation with eight components, which has been first introduced by Markov. Thus, the Fock space for corresponding quantum fields is doubled (as shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Valeriy V. Dvoeglazov

In [Phys. Lett. B 780, 216 (2018)], Capolupo et al. calculate the noncyclic geometric phases associated with neutrino flavor transitions in the two-neutrino scenario, and claim that the results depend on the choice of representations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 Jianlong Lu

We examine the origin of neutrino masses and oscillations in the context of the six-dimensional standard model. The space-time symmetries of this model explain proton stability and forbid Majorana neutrino masses. The consistency of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Appelquist , Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Eduardo Ponton , Ho-Ung Yee

We discuss the problem of how Majorana mass terms can be generated in low-energy systems. We show that, while these terms imply the Majorana condition, the opposite is not always true when more than one flavour is involved. This is an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-03 L. Lepori , A. Celi , A. Trombettoni , M. Mannarelli

We present a model where Majorana neutrino mass terms are forbidden by the flavor symmetry group Delta(27). Neutrinos are Dirac fermions and their masses arise in the same way as that of the charged fermions, due to very small Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-17 Alfredo Aranda , Cesar Bonilla , S. Morisi , E. Peinado , J. W. F. Valle

It is shown that various versions of the neutrino mixing hypothesis are in a contradiction with generally accepted facts and principles.There is also presented the possible alternative formulation of the neutrino oscillation theory and it…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-03 Viliam Pazma , Julius Vanko

The Majorana paper ``Symmetrical theory of the electron and positron'' is briefly reviewed. The present status of Majorana neutrinos is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky

A computation of nucleosynthesis bounds on the masses of long-lived Dirac and Majorana neutrinos is reviewed. In particular an explicit treatment of the ``differential heating'' of the $\nue$ and $\bnue$ ensembles due to the residual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimmo Kainulainen

Whether there exist elementary particles having Majorana nature is one the fundamental open question that has persisted since the 1930s. The only practical experiments to test the Majorana nature of neutrinos is the search for neutrinoless…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-10 Itaru Shimizu

We suggest that the Majorana neutrino should be regarded as a Bogoliubov quasiparticle that is consistently understood only by use of a relativistic analogue of the Bogoliubov transformation. The unitary charge conjugation condition ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-15 Kazuo Fujikawa , Anca Tureanu

We consider the non-radiative two body decay of a neutrino to a daughter neutrino with degraded energy and a very light particle (Majoron). Ultrahigh energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source like a Gamma Ray Burst undergoing this decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nayantara Gupta , H. S. Mani

We consider the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy. We shown that, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlo Giunti

We present simple and predictive realizations of neutrino masses in theories based on the $SU(6)$ grand unifying group. At the level of the lowest-dimension operators, this class of models predicts a skew-symmetric flavor structure for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Zackaria Chacko , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Anil Thapa

It is shown that neutrino oscillation and Majorana type neutrino are not compatible with Special Theory of Relativity. Instead of the Majorana type neutrino, traditional neutrino(no rest mass) is considered with additional assumptions that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyoung Kim

A brief sketch is given of the present observational status and future prospects of the physics of neutrino mass, including a survey of the various theoretical schemes of neutrino mass generation. Emphasis is given to those which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose W. F. Valle

Some of the outstanding questions of particle physics today concern the neutrino sector, in particular whether there are more neutrinos than those already known and whether they are Dirac or Majorana particles.There are different ways to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gorazd Cvetic , Claudio Dib , C. S. Kim , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

Author proposes the idea of direct, affordable in the foreseeable future experiment that could determine whether the neutrino are Dirac or Majorana particles.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-16 Raul Nakhmanson-Kulish

The observation of neutrino oscillations has proven that neutrinos have mass. This is direct evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. This discovery has renewed interest in neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-20 R. Benton Pahlka