Wednesday Colloquia

Nature of the Neutrino: Dirac or Majorana?

by Prof. MVN Murthy (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-66 and via ZOOM webinar ( Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97963259354?pwd=ZFZsa2xqWGJSZW5pUjZPNkNqeGlEZz09 )
Meeting ID: 979 6325 9354 Pass code: 04072020
Description
It has been close to 90 years since Majorana proposed the possibility of the neutrino being its own anti-particle, the only fermion that has this possibility. While this is ruled out  within the framework of the Standard Model of particle physics,  the question remains open after the latest results from neutrino oscillation experiments showing that the neutrinos have non-zero mass. We will review and discuss some old and new proposals to determine the nature of the neutrino. 

Reference:

1) C S Kim, MVNM, D Sahoo, Phys Rev D105, 113006 (2022)