Distinguishing Dirac from Majorana Heavy Neutrino at Future Lepton Colliders

IF 8.1 1区物理与天体物理 Q1 PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Physical review letters Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.134.021801

Qing-Hong Cao, Kun Cheng, Yandong Liu

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Abstract

We propose to identify whether a sterile neutrino is Dirac-type or Majorana-type by counting the peak of the rapidity distribution at lepton colliders. Our method requires only one charged-lepton tagging, and the nature of sterile neutrinos can be pinned down once they are confirmed.

Published by the American Physical Society

2025

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Physical review letters 物理-物理：综合

CiteScore

16.50

自引率

7.00%

发文量

2673

审稿时长

2.2 months

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