Prospect of determining the Dirac/Majorana state of the neutrino by a Multi-OWL experiment

dc.contributor.author	Gupta, Nayantara
dc.contributor.author	Mani, H.S.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-08T04:45:11Z
dc.date.available	2012-05-08T04:45:11Z
dc.date.issued	2005-07
dc.description	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)	en
dc.description.abstract	We consider the non-radiative two-body decay of a neutrino to a daughter neutrino with degraded energy and a very light particle (Majoron). Ultrahigh-energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source like a gamma ray burst undergoing this decay process are found to produce different number of events in the detector depending on whether they are Majorana or Dirac particles. The next generation large-scale experiments like Multi-OWL is expected to provide us an accurate determination of the flux of neutrinos from astrophysical sources and this may enable us to distinguish between the Dirac and Majorana nature of neutrino.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Physics G, 2005, Vol.31, p599	en
dc.identifier.issn	0954-3899
dc.identifier.issn	1361-6471 (Online)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4465
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	IOP Publishing Ltd	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005JPhG...31..599G	en
dc.relation.uri	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404218	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/31/7/006	en
dc.rights	2005 IOP Publishing Ltd	en
dc.title	Prospect of determining the Dirac/Majorana state of the neutrino by a Multi-OWL experiment	en
dc.type	Article	en

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