ANOMALOUS VECTOR-BOSON COUPLINGS IN MAJORANA NEUTRINO MODELS

Citation
Cp. Burgess et A. Pilaftsis, ANOMALOUS VECTOR-BOSON COUPLINGS IN MAJORANA NEUTRINO MODELS, Physics letters. Section B, 333(3-4), 1994, pp. 427-433
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
333
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
427 - 433
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1994)333:3-4<427:AVCIMN>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We examine the contributions of Majorana neutrinos to CP-violating WWZ and ZZZ self-couplings, using a model in which sterile neutrinos coup le to the W and Z by mixing with a fourth-generation heavy lepton. We find that the induced form factors can be as large as 0.5%. The model satisfies all phenomenological bounds in a natural way, including thos e due to the strong limits on the neutron and electron electric dipole moments. Anomalous CP-odd couplings of this size are unlikely to be o bserved at LEP200, but might be detectable at NLC.