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Lepton Number Violation: from $0\nu\beta\beta$ Decay to Long-Lived Particle Searches

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-06-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the complementary tests of lepton number violation in 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta-decay experiments, long-lived particle (LLP) searches at the LHC main detectors ATLAS/CMS, and a proposed far detector MATHUSLA. In the context of a simplified model with a scalar doublet SS and a Majorana fermion FF, we show that while the 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta-decay experiments can probe a larger portion of parameter space, the LLP searches can uniquely probe the region of smaller couplings and masses if SS is at TeV scale while FF is at or below the electroweak scale. We also investigate constraints on the parameter space from the existing searches that are insensitive to lepton number violation.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08172,
  title  = {Lepton Number Violation: from $0\nu\beta\beta$ Decay to Long-Lived Particle Searches},
  author = {Gang Li and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf and Shufang Su and Juan Carlos Vasquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08172},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures; v2: match the published version in PRD, minor changes