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Majoron
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In particle physics, majorons (named after Ettore

Majorana) are a hypothetical type of Goldstone boson
that are theorized to mediate the neutrino mass violation
of lepton number or B L in certain high energy
collisions such as

e +e W +W +J
Where two electrons collide to form two W bosons and
the majoron J. The U(1)BL symmetry is assumed to be

Majoron
Composition

Elementary particle

Statistics

Bosonic

Status

Hypothetical

Symbol

Theorized

Y. Chikashige, R. N. Mohapatra,
and R. D. Peccei

Mass

unknown

global so that the majoron isn't "eaten up" by the gauge

Electric charge 0
boson and spontaneously broken. Majorons were
originally formulated in four dimensions by Y.
Spin
0[1]
Chikashige, R. N. Mohapatra and R. D. Peccei to
understand neutrino masses by the seesaw mechanism
and are being searched for in the neutrino-less double beta decay process. There are theoretical extensions
of this idea into supersymmetric theories and theories involving extra compactified dimensions. By
propagating through the extra spatial dimensions the detectable number of majoron creation events vary
accordingly. Mathematically, majorons may be modeled by allowing them to propagate through a material
while all other Standard Model forces are fixed to an orbifold point.

References
1. ^ Lattanzi, M. (2008). "Decaying Majoron Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses". AIP Conference Proceedings 966
(1): 163169. arXiv:0802.3155 (https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3155). doi:10.1063/1.2836988
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1063%2F1.2836988).

Further reading
Balysh, A.; et al. (1996). "Bounds on new Majoron models from the Heidelberg-Moscow
experiment". Physical Review D 54 (5): 36413644. arXiv:nucl-ex/9511001
(https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/9511001). Bibcode:1996PhRvD..54.3641G
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996PhRvD..54.3641G). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.54.3641
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevD.54.3641).
Mohapatra, R. N.; Prez-Lorenzana, A.; de S. Pires, C. A. (2000). "Neutrino mass, bulk majoron and
neutrinoless double beta decay". Physics Letters B 491 (12): 143147. arXiv:hep-ph/0008158
(https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0008158). Bibcode:2000PhLB..491..143M
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000PhLB..491..143M). doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01031-5
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2FS0370-2693%2800%2901031-5).
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Carone, C. D.; Conroy, J. M.; Kwee, H. J. (2002). "Bulk majorons at colliders". Physics Letters B 538
(12): 115120. arXiv:hep-ph/0204045 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204045).
Bibcode:2002PhLB..538..115C (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002PhLB..538..115C).
doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01943-3 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2FS0370-2693%2802%29019433).
Frampton, P. H.; Oh, M. C.; Yoshikawa, T. (2002). "Majoron mass zeros from Higgs triplet vacuum
expectation values without a Majoron problem". Physical Review D 66 (3): 033007. arXiv:hepph/0204273 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0204273). Bibcode:2002PhRvD..66c3007F
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002PhRvD..66c3007F). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.033007
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevD.66.033007).
Grossman, Y.; Haber, H. E. (2003). "The would-be Majoron in R-parity-violating supersymmetry".
Physical Review D 67 (3): 036002. arXiv:hep-ph/0210273 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0210273).
Bibcode:2003PhRvD..67c6002G (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003PhRvD..67c6002G).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.036002 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevD.67.036002).
de S. Pires, C. A.; Rodrigues da Silva, P. S. (2004). "Spontaneous breaking of the lepton number and
invisible majoron in a 3-3-1 model". European Physical Journal C 36: 397403. arXiv:hepph/0307253 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307253). Bibcode:2004EPJC...36..397D
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004EPJC...36..397D). doi:10.1140/epjc/s2004-01949-3
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs2004-01949-3).

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