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Neutral particles in light of the Majorana-Ahluwalia ideas

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The first part of this article presents an overview of the theory and phenomenology of truly neutral particles based on the papers of Majorana, Racah, Furry, McLennan, and Case. The recent development of the construct undertaken by Ahluwalia could be relevant for the explanation of the present experimental situation in neutrino physics and astrophysics. Then the new fundamental wave equations for self-/anti-self-conjugate type II spinors proposed by Ahluwalia are recast into covariant form. The connection with Foldy-Nigam-Bargmann-Wightman-Wigner (FNBWW)-type quantum field theory is found. Possible applications to the problem of neutrino oscillations are discussed.

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Dvoeglazov, V.V. Neutral particles in light of the Majorana-Ahluwalia ideas. Int J Theor Phys 34, 2467–2490 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670779

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