Heavy-Majorana-neutrino production
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 40 (7) , 2172-2176
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.40.2172
Abstract
Heavy-Majorana-neutrino production and detection at colliders is examined. Majorana-neutrino decay is shown to be simply calculable from Dirac-neutrino results. Majorana-neutrino production is calculated and compared to Dirac-neutrino production. Near the threshold, the Dirac cross section rises much more quickly. Far above the threshold, the two types of neutrinos have the same spin-independent cross sections while the spin-dependent cross sections are very different. This difference could be observed in the correlations between the angle and energy dependence of the heavy-neutrino decay products.
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