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arxiv: 1709.04706 · v2 · pith:3NPZSPX6new · submitted 2017-09-14 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-th

Majorana neutrinos in seesaw mechanism and Bogoliubov quasiparticles

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keywords bogoliubovmechanismseesawchargeconjugationmajorananeutrinosterm
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The idea that the Majorana neutrino should be identified as a Bogoliubov quasiparticle is applied to the seesaw mechanism for the three generations of neutrinos in the Standard Model. A relativistic analogue of the Bogoliubov transformation in the present context is a CP-preserving canonical transformation but modifies charge conjugation properties in such a way that the C-noninvariant fermion number violating term (condensate) is converted to a Dirac mass term. Puzzling aspects associated with the charge conjugation of chiral Weyl fermions are clarified. By invoking the Coleman--Weinberg mechanism in the framework of dimensional regularization, it is also noted that seesaw models become unnatural in some parameter regions which induce the hierarchy problems in the bosonic sector.

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