Non-unitary leptonic flavor mixing and CP violation in neutrino-antineutrino oscillations
If massive neutrinos are Majorana particles, then the lepton number should be violated in nature and neutrino-antineutrino oscillations να↔ν‾β (for α,β=e,μ,τ) will definitely take place. In the present paper, we study the properties of CP violation in neutrino-antineutrino oscillations with the non-...
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Elsevier
2022
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| Sumario: | If massive neutrinos are Majorana particles, then the lepton number should be violated in nature and neutrino-antineutrino oscillations να↔ν‾β (for α,β=e,μ,τ) will definitely take place. In the present paper, we study the properties of CP violation in neutrino-antineutrino oscillations with the non-unitary leptonic flavor mixing matrix, which is actually a natural prediction in the canonical seesaw model due to the mixing between light and heavy Majorana neutrinos. The oscillation probabilities P(να→ν‾β) and P(ν‾α→νβ) are derived, and the CP asymmetries Aαβ≡[P(να→ν‾β)−P(ν‾α→νβ)]/[P(να→ν‾β)+P(ν‾α→νβ)] are also calculated. Taking into account current experimental bounds on the leptonic unitarity violation, we show that the CP asymmetries induced by the non-unitary mixing parameters can significantly deviate from those in the limit of a unitary leptonic flavor mixing. |
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