Constraints on NJL four-fermion effective interactions from neutrinoless double beta decay
Abstract
We study the contribution of a heavy right-handed Majorana neutrino to neutrinoless double beta decay () via four-fermion effective interactions of Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type. In this physical scenario, the sterile neutrino contributes to the nuclear transition through gauge, contact, and mixed interactions. Using the lower limit on the half-life of from the KamLAND-Zen experiment, we then constrain the effective right-handed coupling between the sterile neutrino and the boson: . Eventually, we show that the obtained bounds are compatible with those found in the literature, which highlights the complementarity of this type of phenomenological study with high-energy experiments.
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@article{arxiv.2304.08042,
title = {Constraints on NJL four-fermion effective interactions from neutrinoless double beta decay},
author = {Luca Pacioselli and Orlando Panella and Matteo Presilla and She-Sheng Xue},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08042},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
19 pages, 6 figures. Version published by JHEP; typos corrected, minor style changes, 3 repeated references removed, Acknowledgments section added