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Qing-Hong Cao1,2, Kun Cheng1,3, Yandong Liu4,5
1Peking University, School of Physics, Beijing 100871, China.
Physical Review Letters
|February 6, 2025
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We propose to identify whether a sterile neutrino is Dirac-type or Majorana-type by counting the peak of the rapidity distribution at lepton colliders. Our method requires only one charged-lepton tagging, and the nature of sterile neutrinos can be pinned down once they are confirmed.
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