Yuber Perez Gonzalez yuber.f.perez-gonzalez@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
From Dirac to Majorana: The cosmic neutrino background capture rate in the minimally extended Standard Model
Perez-Gonzalez, Yuber F.; Sen, Manibrata
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Manibrata Sen
Abstract
We investigate the capture rate of the cosmic neutrino background on tritium within the Standard Model, extended to incorporate three right-handed singlet neutrinos with explicit lepton-number violation. We consider a scenario where the 6 × 6 neutrino mixing matrix factorizes into three independent 2 × 2 pairs and analyze the states produced from weak interactions just before neutrino decoupling. Taking into account the unrestricted Majorana mass scale associated with lepton number violation, spanning from the grand unification scale to Planck-suppressed values, we observe a gradual transition in the capture rate from a purely Majorana neutrino to a purely (pseudo) Dirac neutrino. We demonstrate that the capture rate is modified if the lightest active neutrino is relativistic, and this can be used to constrain the tiniest value of mass-squared difference ∼10−35 eV2, between the active-sterile pair, probed so far. Consequently, the
cosmic neutrino capture rate could become a promising probe for discerning the underlying mechanism responsible for generating neutrino masses.
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Perez-Gonzalez, Y. F., & Sen, M. (2024). From Dirac to Majorana: The cosmic neutrino background capture rate in the minimally extended Standard Model. Physical Review D, 109(2), Article 023022. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.109.023022
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 3, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 18, 2024 |
Publication Date | Jan 15, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Mar 20, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 20, 2024 |
Journal | Physical Review D |
Print ISSN | 2470-0010 |
Electronic ISSN | 2470-0029 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 109 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | 023022 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.109.023022 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2334085 |
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