Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-08-12
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 093008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.093008
If the neutrinos are Majorana fermions, there are at least three new, potentially observable CP-odd phases that parameterize CP-invariance violating phenomena. We currently have no information regarding any of them and know that two out of the three, the so-called Majorana phases, are very hard to access experimentally. Here, we discuss the effect of Majorana phases on charged-lepton electric dipole moments (EDM), and explicitly show that neutrino Majorana phases induce EDMs even in the absence of other sources of CP-invariance violation. We also argue that while the Majorana neutrino contribution to EDMs is tiny, there is one generic ultraviolet completion to the standard model plus massive Majorana neutrinos -- the standard model plus a triplet Higgs boson -- that leads to significantly enhanced contributions which are still proportional to the low-energy neutrino Majorana phases. If this particular scenario is realized in nature, it seems possible, at least in principle, to measure the Majorana phases by precisely measuring charged-lepton EDMs.
Gopalakrishna Shrihari
Gouvea Andre de
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