Parity violation and the masslessness of the neutrino

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6506305· OSTI ID:6506305

Mannheim, P D

It is proposed that the weak interaction be obtained by gauging the strong interaction chiral flavor group. The neutrinos are then four-component spinors. Pairs of right-handed neutrinos are allowed to condense into the vacuum. This produces maximal parity violation in both the quark and lepton sectors of the weak interaction, keeps the neutrinos massless, and also leads to the conventional Weinberg mixing pattern. The approach also in principle provides a way of calculating the Cabibbo angle. 11 references.

• Research Organization: Oregon Univ., Eugene (USA). Inst. of Theoretical Science; Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-S-06-2230-004
• OSTI ID: 6506305
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/70004-225; RLO-2250/T4-225; TRN: 79-006086
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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