Published June 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Majorana neutrino and the vacuum of Bogoliubov quasiparticle

  • 1. Quantum Hadron Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako 351-0198 (Japan)

Description

The Lagrangian of the seesaw mechanism is C violating but the same Lagrangian when re-written in terms of Majorana neutrinos is manifestly C invariant. To resolve this puzzling feature, a relativistic analogue of Bogoliubov transformation, which preserves CP but explicitly breaks C and P separately, was introduced together with the notions of a Bogoliubov quasiparticle and an analogue of the energy gap in BCS theory. The idea of Majorana neutrino as Bogoliubov quasiparticle was then suggested. In this paper, we study the vacuum structure of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle which becomes heavy by absorbing the C-breaking. By treating an infinitesimally small C violating term as an analogue of the chiral symmetry breaking nucleon mass in the model of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio, we construct an explicit form of the vacuum of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle which defines Majorana neutrinos in seesaw mechanism. The vacuum of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle thus constructed has an analogous condensate structure as the vacuum of the quasiparticle (nucleon) in the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.004

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DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.004;
arXiv
arXiv:1801.06960v2;
PII
S0370269318302880;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
781
Journal Page Range
p. 295-301
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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