Majorana Neutrinos and the Production of the Right-handed Charged Gauge Boson

Feb, 1983
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 50 (1983) 1427
Report number:
  • BNL-32872

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Abstract: (APS)
A possibility of a very clean signature for the production of WR± is pointed out. If the right-handed neutrino is lighter than WR±, left-right symmetric gauge theory predicts the decay WR+→μ+μ++2 hadronic jets, with the branching ratio ∼3%. The lack of neutrinos in the final state and the absence of a sizable background make WR± rather easy to detect (if it exists). Detailed predictions regarding the production and decay rates of WR+ are presented.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2) X SU(2) X U(1)
  • NEUTRINO: MAJORANA
  • POSTULATED PARTICLE: W+
  • INTERMEDIATE BOSON: RIGHT-HANDED
  • INTERMEDIATE BOSON: SEMILEPTONIC DECAY
  • SEMILEPTONIC DECAY: INTERMEDIATE BOSON
  • INTERMEDIATE BOSON: DECAY WIDTH
  • DECAY WIDTH: INTERMEDIATE BOSON
  • INTERMEDIATE BOSON: HADROPRODUCTION
  • HADROPRODUCTION: INTERMEDIATE BOSON