A new strategy for probing the Majorana neutrino CP violating phases and masses[sup 1]

Autor: David Delepine, Vannia González Macias, Shaaban Khalil, Gabriel López Castro, Alejandro Ayala, Guillermo Contreras, Ildefonso Leon, Pedro Podesta
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings.
ISSN: 0094-243X
DOI: 10.1063/1.3622737
Popis: We propose a new strategy for detecting the CP-violating phases and the effective mass of muon Majorana neutrinos by measuring observables associated with neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays. Within the generic framework of quantum field theory, we compute the non-factorizable probability for producing a pair of same-charged muons in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays as a distinctive signature of $\nu_{\mu}-\bar{\nu_{\mu}}$ oscillations. We show that an intense neutrino beam through a long baseline experiment is favored for probing the Majorana phases. Using the neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability reported by MINOS collaboration, a new stringent bound on the effective muon-neutrino mass is derived.
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