Majorana neutrino and the vacuum of Bogoliubov quasiparticle

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.04.004zbMATH Open1398.81318arXiv1801.06960OpenAlexW2784937610MaRDI QIDQ1800749FDOQ1800749

Authors: Kazuo Fujikawa 

Publication date: 24 October 2018

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Lagrangian of the seesaw mechanism is C violating but the same Lagrangian when re-written in terms of Majorana neutrinos is manifestly C invariant. To resolve this puzzling feature, a relativistic analogue of Bogoliubov transformation, which preserves CP but explicitly breaks C and P separately, was introduced together with the notions of a Bogoliubov quasiparticle and an analogue of the energy gap in BCS theory. The idea of Majorana neutrino as Bogoliubov quasiparticle was then suggested. In this paper, we study the vacuum structure of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle which becomes heavy by absorbing the C-breaking. By treating an infinitesimally small C violating term as an analogue of the chiral symmetry breaking nucleon mass in the model of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio, we construct an explicit form of the vacuum of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle which defines Majorana neutrinos in seesaw mechanism. The vacuum of the Bogoliubov quasiparticle thus constructed has an analogous condensate structure as the vacuum of the quasiparticle (nucleon) in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06960

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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