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Dissecting Lepton Number Violating Interactions in the Left-Right Symmetric Model: $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, M{\o}ller scattering, and collider searches

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-01 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In the context of the left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay of neutrinoless double beta (0νββ0\nu\beta\beta) decay, parity-violating M{\o}ller scattering, and high-energy colliders, resulting from the Yukawa interaction of the right-handed doubly-charged scalar to electrons, which could evade the severe constraints from charged lepton flavor violation. The 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay amplitude receives additional contributions from right-handed sterile neutrinos. The half-life, calculated in the effective field theory (EFT) framework, allows for an improved description of the contributions involving non-zero mixing between left- and right-handed WW bosons and those arising from exchanging a light right-handed neutrino. We find that the relative sensitivities between the low-energy (or high-precision) and high-energy experiments are affected by the left-right mixing. On the other hand, our results show how the interplay of collider and low-energy searches provides a manner to explore regions that are inaccessible to 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2408.06306,
  title  = {Dissecting Lepton Number Violating Interactions in the Left-Right Symmetric Model: $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, M{\o}ller scattering, and collider searches},
  author = {Gang Li and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf and Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga and Juan Carlos Vasquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06306},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures. Modifications according to the referee's comments. Matches the accepted version in PLB