Published March 19, 1992
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Journal article
Revealing the Majorana nature of heavy neutrinos via a heavy Higgs boson
Creators
- 1. Dept. of Physics, Jadavpur Univ., Calcutta (India)
- 2. Inst. fuer Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Univ., Mainz (Germany)
Description
Analyzing several recently proposed models, based on simple extensions of the standard model (SM), with heavy Majorana neutrinos, it is shown that the change of detecting lepton number violation through their production and subsequent decays may be significantly enhanced, if a heavy Higgs boson with mass within a reasonably broad range is present. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 278
- Journal Issue
- 1/2
- Series
- Phys. Lett., Sect. B.
- Journal Page Range
- 162-166
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23073102
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS; INTEGRAL CROSS SECTIONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; LEPTON NUMBER; MAJORANA THEORY; MASS FORMULAE; MATRICES; NEUTRINOS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; QUARK-ANTIQUARK INTERACTIONS; REST MASS; SPINOR FIELDS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TEV RANGE 10-100; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; CROSS SECTIONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; POSTULATED PARTICLES; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; TEV RANGE; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS