CP violation in neutral lepton transition dipole moment

Abstract

The CP violation in the neutrino transition electromagnetic dipole moment is discussed in the context of the Standard Model with an arbitrary number of right-handed singlet neutrinos. A full one-loop calculation of the neutrino electromagnetic form factors is performed in the Feynman gauge. A non-zero CP asymmetry is generated by a required threshold condition for the neutrino masses along with non-vanishing CP violating phases in the lepton flavour mixing matrix. We follow the paradiagm of CP violation in neutrino oscillations to parametrise the flavour mixing contribution into a series of Jarlskog-like parameters. This formalism is then applied to a minimal seesaw model with two heavy right-handed neutrinos denoted N1 and N2. We observe that the CP asymmetries for decays into light neutrinos N → νγ are extremely suppressed, maximally around 10−17. However the CP asymmetry for N2→ N1γ can reach of order unity. Even if the Dirac CP phase δ is the only source of CP violation, a large CP asymmetry around 10−5–10−3 is comfortably achieved.