Probing Majorana Neutrinos and their CP Violation in Decays of Charged Scalar Mesons π, K, D, Ds, B, Bc

Symmetry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 726-773

  Cvetič, Gorazd ^a   Dib, Claudio O ^a,b   Kim, Choong Sun ^c   Zamora Saá, Jilberto ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María   (Chile)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CP violation; Lepton number violating meson decays; Majorana neutrino

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934784369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20738994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/sym7020726     Document Type: Article

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