Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2024-10-16 v2
Abstract
The is defined as the SM extended to include dimension-5 operators. In this model neutrino masses violate lepton number, and two parameters of the lepton mixing matrix, the Majorana phases, are yet to be constrained. One combination of these phases and the neutrino masses, often denoted by , is probed by neutrinoless double beta decays (). We explore what information may be obtained beyond , and how it depends on the lightest neutrino mass. We point out that with current central values of the mixing parameters, and (or and ) processes cannot simultaneously vanish, providing a no-lose theorem, in principle, for excluding the , even in the case of normal mass ordering.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.18647,
title = {Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay},
author = {Avital Dery and Stefania Gori and Yuval Grossman and Zoltan Ligeti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18647},
year = {2024}
}