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Neutrino physics: New flavors or charm, then color, excitation

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev., D; (United States)

Investigation of charm, then color, excitation through right-handed, color-octet currents is suggested as a more economical way than adding new flavors for avoiding the conflict of the Weinberg-Salam model with present ..nu.. and nu-bar data. The effects from simply adding to the Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani current a new right-handed color-octet weak current (the analog of the usual Cabibbo current) are calculated and compared with available charged-current and neutral-current data. A color-octet piece in the weak currents, in general, does not change the lowest-order predictions for the Weinberg-Salam model for (i) elastic and quasi-elastic ..nu..- or nu-bar-nucleon scattering, (ii) neutral-current-induced parity-violating transitions in atomic physics, and (iii) coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering.

Research Organization:
Department of Physics, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13901
OSTI ID:
7047723
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev., D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., D; (United States) Vol. 18:3; ISSN PRVDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English