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EFT Approach for Right-Handed Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath

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The subject of this chapter is the dynamics of a heavy Majorana neutrino in a thermal bath of SM particles.

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Notes

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    A similar model but with neutrinos not heavier than the electroweak scale is in [6, 7].

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    The operator \(N^{\dagger }\,\gamma ^5\gamma ^i\,N\) can be also written as \(-2 N^{\dagger }\,S^i\,N\), where \(\mathbf {S}\) is the spin operator.

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Biondini, S. (2017). EFT Approach for Right-Handed Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath. In: Effective Field Theories for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in a Thermal Bath. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63901-7_6

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