Majorana neutrino as Bogoliubov quasiparticle

We suggest that the Majorana neutrino should be regarded as a Bogoliubov quasiparticle that is consistently understood only by use of a relativistic analogue of the Bogoliubov transformation. The unitary charge conjugation condition CψC†=ψ is not maintained in the definition of a quantum Majorana fe...

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Main Authors: Kazuo Fujikawa, Anca Tureanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-11-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317307633