期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
卷 26, 期 9, 页码 1469-1491出版社
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X1105302X
关键词
Seesaw mechanism; left-right symmetry
资金
- EU [MRTN-CT-2006-035863]
I argue that LHC may shed light on the nature of neutrino mass through the probe of the seesaw mechanism. The smoking gun signature is lepton number violation through the production of same sign lepton pairs, a collider analogy of the neutrinoless double beta decay. I discuss this in the context of left right symmetric theories, which led originally to neutrino mass and the seesaw mechanism. A W-R gauge boson with a mass in a few TeV region could easily dominate neutrinoless double beta decay, and its discovery at LHC would have spectacular signatures of parity restoration and lepton number violation. Moreover, LHC can measure the masses of the right-handed neutrinos and the right-handed leptonic mixing matrix, which could in turn be used to predict the rates for neutrinoless double decay and lepton flavor violating violating processes. The LR scale at the LHC energies offers great hope of observing these low energy processes in the present and upcoming experiments.
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