Hunting for T-violation and Majoranality of Neutrinos in Muon Decays
英文摘要：
We propose a new experiment to search for a time-reversal (T) symmetry breaking process in muon decay and the Majoranality of the neutrinos. In the presence of V+A interactions, the Majoranality appears as a T-violating term in the muon decay width as shown by Doi et al, while in the Standard Model such a T-violating term is negligibly small. The presences of V+A interactions and the corresponding heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos give us an important clue to solve two major issues in particle physics, the deficit of baryon asymmetry in the universe and the Majoranality of neutrinos. In the experiment, the polarization of positrons from muon decays is measured using a polarimeter consisting of a magnetized foil and a segmented calorimeter. According to our result of numerical calculation, a factor of ten improvement in sensitivity to the T-violating process is expected by a year of measurement at J-PARC Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility, compared to the most recent precursor experiment.
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