TY - JOUR
T1 - Lepton-number violation and massless nonorthogonal neutrinos
AU - Langacker, Paul
AU - London, David
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Mixing between light and heavy neutrinos can induce lepton-flavor and total-lepton-number violation in the light sector, even if the light neutrino masses are zero or extremely small, because the states actually produced in weak processes are generally nonorthogonal. We develop the formalism for describing such nonorthogonal neutrinos and explore the phenomenological implications for neutrino oscillation experiments, the solar-neutrino problem, constraints from universality and other charged- and neutral-current experiments, e, and L=2 effects in muon decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay.
AB - Mixing between light and heavy neutrinos can induce lepton-flavor and total-lepton-number violation in the light sector, even if the light neutrino masses are zero or extremely small, because the states actually produced in weak processes are generally nonorthogonal. We develop the formalism for describing such nonorthogonal neutrinos and explore the phenomenological implications for neutrino oscillation experiments, the solar-neutrino problem, constraints from universality and other charged- and neutral-current experiments, e, and L=2 effects in muon decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.38.907
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.38.907
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:26144460756
VL - 38
SP - 907
EP - 916
JO - Physical review D: Particles and fields
JF - Physical review D: Particles and fields
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 3
ER -