Title
Uncovering the Majorana nature through a precision measurement of the CP phase
Date Issued
01 February 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
Journal
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We show the possibility to discover the neutrino nature by measuring the Majorana CP phase at the DUNE experiment. This phase is turned on by a decoherence environment, possibly originated by physics at the Planck scale. A sizable distortion in the measurement of the Dirac CP violation phase δCP is observed at DUNE when compared with T2HK measurement due to decoherence and the non-null Majorana phase. Being that, when the measurement of the Majorana phase is performed at DUNE, it reaches a precision of 23(21)% for a decoherence parameter Γ=4.5(5.5)×10-24 GeV and a Majorana phase equal to 1.5π. The latter precision is similar to the one obtained at the T2K experiment at its current Dirac CP violation phase measurement.
Volume
105
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85125417010
Source
Physical Review D
ISSN of the container
24700010
Sponsor(s)
A. M. G. acknowledges funding by the Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación at PUCP, through grants No. DGI-2017-3-0019 and No. DGI 2019-3-0044. F. N. D. acknowledges CONCYTEC for the graduate fellowship under Grant No. 236-2015-FONDECYT. The authors also want to thank F. de Zela, J. Jones-Pérez, J. L. Bazo, C. A. Argüelles, and Mario A. Acero for useful suggestions and reading the manuscript.
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