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Constraints on NJL four-fermion effective interactions from neutrinoless double beta decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-11-13 v4

Abstract

We study the contribution of a heavy right-handed Majorana neutrino to neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ0\nu\beta\beta) 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 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta from the KamLAND-Zen experiment, we then constrain the effective right-handed coupling between the sterile neutrino and the WW boson: GRW\mathcal{G}^{W}_{R}. 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