ANOMALOUS VECTOR-BOSON COUPLINGS IN MAJORANA NEUTRINO MODELS

被引:5
作者
BURGESS, CP
PILAFTSIS, A
机构
[1] RUTHERFORD APPLETON LAB,DIDCOT OX11 0QX,OXON,ENGLAND
[2] MCGILL UNIV,DEPT PHYS,MONTREAL H3A 2T8,QUEBEC,CANADA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(94)90163-5
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We examine the contributions of Majorana neutrinos to CP-violating WWZ and ZZZ self-couplings, using a model in which sterile neutrinos couple to the W and Z by mixing with a fourth-generation heavy lepton. We find that the induced form factors can be as large as 0.5%. The model satisfies all phenomenological bounds in a natural way, including those due to the strong limits on the neutron and electron electric dipole moments. Anomalous CP-odd couplings of this size are unlikely to be observed at LEP200, but might be detectable at NLC.
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页码:427 / 433
页数:7
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