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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.013008
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- U.S. Department of Energy [de-sc0010108]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1315155]
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We show that the discovery of baryon number violation in two processes, with at least one obeying the selection rule Delta (B - L) = +/- 2, can determine the Majorana character of neutrinos. Thus, observing p -> e(+) pi(0) and n -> e(-) pi(+) decays, or p -> e(-) pi(0) and n - (n) over bar oscillations, or n -> e(-) pi(+) and n -> (n) over bar oscillations would establish that neutrinos are Majorana particles. We discuss this in a model-independent effective operator approach.
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