Probing the Nature of Neutrinos with a New Force

Abstract

We discuss the possibility to distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos in the context of the minimal gauge theory for neutrino masses, the B-L gauge extension of the Standard Model. We revisit the possibility to observe lepton number violation at the Large Hadron Collider and point out the importance of the decays of the new gauge boson to discriminate between the existence of Dirac or Majorana neutrinos.

Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures. v2: Typos fixed. Accepted for publication in PRD