Abstract
We study the CP violation in lepton-number-violating meson decays M±→1±2±M′, where M and M′ are pseudoscalar mesons, M=K,D,Ds,B,Bc and M′=π,K,D,Ds, and the charged leptons are 1,2=e,μ. It turns out that the CP-violating difference S-(M) ≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] can become appreciable when two intermediate on-shell Majorana neutrinos Nj (j=1,2) participate in these decays. Our calculations show that the asymmetry becomes largest when the masses of N1 and N2 are almost degenerate, i.e., when the mass difference ΔMN becomes comparable with the (small) decay widths ΓN of these neutrinos: ΔMNΓN. We show that in such a case, the CP ratio ACP(M)≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)]/ [Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)+Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] becomes a quantity ∼1. The observation of CP violation in these decays would be consistent with the existence of the well-motivated νMSM model with two almost degenerate heavy neutrinos in the mass range MN∼0.1-101GeV.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 093012 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 May 13 |
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- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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CP violation in lepton number violating semihadronic decays of K,D,Ds,B,Bc. / Cvetič, Gorazd; Kim, C. S.; Zamora-Saá, Jilberto.
In: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 89, No. 9, 093012, 13.05.2014.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - CP violation in lepton number violating semihadronic decays of K,D,Ds,B,Bc
AU - Cvetič, Gorazd
AU - Kim, C. S.
AU - Zamora-Saá, Jilberto
PY - 2014/5/13
Y1 - 2014/5/13
N2 - We study the CP violation in lepton-number-violating meson decays M±→1±2±M′, where M and M′ are pseudoscalar mesons, M=K,D,Ds,B,Bc and M′=π,K,D,Ds, and the charged leptons are 1,2=e,μ. It turns out that the CP-violating difference S-(M) ≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] can become appreciable when two intermediate on-shell Majorana neutrinos Nj (j=1,2) participate in these decays. Our calculations show that the asymmetry becomes largest when the masses of N1 and N2 are almost degenerate, i.e., when the mass difference ΔMN becomes comparable with the (small) decay widths ΓN of these neutrinos: ΔMNΓN. We show that in such a case, the CP ratio ACP(M)≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)]/ [Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)+Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] becomes a quantity ∼1. The observation of CP violation in these decays would be consistent with the existence of the well-motivated νMSM model with two almost degenerate heavy neutrinos in the mass range MN∼0.1-101GeV.
AB - We study the CP violation in lepton-number-violating meson decays M±→1±2±M′, where M and M′ are pseudoscalar mesons, M=K,D,Ds,B,Bc and M′=π,K,D,Ds, and the charged leptons are 1,2=e,μ. It turns out that the CP-violating difference S-(M) ≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] can become appreciable when two intermediate on-shell Majorana neutrinos Nj (j=1,2) participate in these decays. Our calculations show that the asymmetry becomes largest when the masses of N1 and N2 are almost degenerate, i.e., when the mass difference ΔMN becomes comparable with the (small) decay widths ΓN of these neutrinos: ΔMNΓN. We show that in such a case, the CP ratio ACP(M)≡[Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)-Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)]/ [Γ(M-→1-2-M′+)+Γ(M+→1+2+M′-)] becomes a quantity ∼1. The observation of CP violation in these decays would be consistent with the existence of the well-motivated νMSM model with two almost degenerate heavy neutrinos in the mass range MN∼0.1-101GeV.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.093012
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.093012
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AN - SCOPUS:84900851597
VL - 89
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 9
M1 - 093012
ER -