Published July 1, 2005
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Journal article
Prospect of determining the Dirac/Majorana state of the neutrino by a Multi-OWL experiment
Creators
- 1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113 (India)
Description
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 process are found to produce different number of events in the detector depending on whether they are Majorana or Dirac particles. The next generation large-scale experiments like Multi-OWL is expected to provide us an accurate determination of the flux of neutrinos from astrophysical sources and this may enable us to distinguish between the Dirac and Majorana nature of neutrino
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/31/599/g5_7_006.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (ISSN 1361-6471) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0954-3899/31/599/g5_7_006.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0954-3899/31/7/006;
- PII
- S0954-3899(05)93785-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 31
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Journal Page Range
- p. 599-610
- ISSN
- 0954-3899
- CODEN
- JPGPED
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36109538
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; TWO-BODY PROBLEM
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATIONS