Heavy Sterile Neutrinos and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Abstract
We investigate the possibility of producing neutrinoless double beta decay without having an electron neutrino with a mass in the vicinity of 1 eV. We do so by having a much lighter electron neutrino mix with a much heavier (m > 1 GeV) sterile neutrino. We study the constraints on the masses and mixings of such heavy sterile neutrinos from existing laboratory, astrophysical and cosmological information, and discuss the properties it would require in order to produce a detectable signal in current searches for neutrinoless double beta decay.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9408367,
title = {Heavy Sterile Neutrinos and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay},
author = {P. Bamert and C. P. Burgess and R. N. Mohapatra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9408367},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
(We have revised somewhat our discussion of nucleosynthesis and laboratory bounds, and have modified figure 3 accordingly. Our conclusions remain unchanged.) plain TeX, 17 pages plus 4 figures attached, McGill-94/37, NEIP-94-007, UMD-PP-95-11