Leptonic {CP} Violation and Mirror Leptons

Oct, 1985
10 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 269 (1986) 109-118
  • Published: 1986
Report number:
  • BI-TP 85/24

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We study leptonic CP -violation within a single fermion generation in an extended electro-weak model where new right-handed leptons, so-called mirror leptons, exist and mix with standard left-handed leptons. Essential differences are pointed out between the mixing of a left-handed neutrino with a mirror neutrino in such a model and the ordinary mixing of two left-handed neutrinos in the standard model. E.g. in the mirror case CP -violation may occur even if neutrinos are Dirac particles. The number of physical CP -violation phases is determined for different mixing schemes and parameterizations of the leptonic weak currents in terms of these phases are presented.
  • CP: violation
  • LEPTON: MIRROR PARTICLE
  • LEPTON: INTERFERENCE
  • NEUTRINO: DIRAC
  • NEUTRINO: MAJORANA
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2) X U(1)
  • CHARGED CURRENT
  • NEUTRAL CURRENT