TY - JOUR
T1 - Low-energy neutrino Majorana phases and charged-lepton electric dipole moments
AU - De Gouvêa, André
AU - Gopalakrishna, Shrihari
PY - 2005/11/1
Y1 - 2005/11/1
N2 - If the neutrinos are Majorana fermions, there are at least three new, potentially observable CP-odd phases that parametrize 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.
AB - If the neutrinos are Majorana fermions, there are at least three new, potentially observable CP-odd phases that parametrize 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.093008
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.093008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:29744465658
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 72
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 9
M1 - 093008
ER -