Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles?

Details Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles? Are Neutrinos Their Own Antiparticles?

2009-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/0903.0899v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.173:012013,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, pdf

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/173/1/012013

We explain the relationship between Majorana neutrinos, which are their own antiparticles, and Majorana neutrino masses. We point out that Majorana masses would make the neutrinos very distinctive particles, and explain why many theorists strongly suspect that neutrinos do have Majorana masses. The promising approach to confirming this suspicion is to seek neutrinoless double beta decay. We introduce a toy model that illustrates why this decay requires nonzero neutrino masses, even when there are both right-handed and left-handed weak currents.

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