Majorana Neutrinos and the Production of the Right-Handed Charged Gauge Boson
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- May 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1427
- Bibcode:
- 1983PhRvL..50.1427K
- Keywords:
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- 14.80.Er;
- 12.10.Ck;
- 13.85.Qk;
- 14.60.Gh;
- Inclusive production with identified leptons photons or other nonhadronic particles