Goran Senjanovic: Looking for Majorana at the LHC
Channel: Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC)
Date: 14/05/2015

Professor Goran Senjanovic (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila and International Center for Theoretical Physics ICTP) has given a colloquium about the physics behind majorana particles.

Abstract
According to Majorana, neutral particles such as neutrinos may be their own antiparticles which implies lepton number violation, the text-book example being a neutrinoless double beta decay. I argue that the LHC could provide a complementary high-energy test of this idea and discuss a deep connection between these two exciting processes in the context of the minimal Left-Right symmetric theory. This theory, which was introduced long ago in order to account for parity violation in weak interactions and which led originally to neutrino mass and the seesaw mechanism, is finally becoming accessible to experiment.

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