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Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-10-16 v2

Abstract

The νMSM\nu_M{\rm SM} 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 meem_{ee}, is probed by neutrinoless double beta decays (0νββ0\nu\beta\beta). We explore what information may be obtained beyond 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta, and how it depends on the lightest neutrino mass. We point out that with current central values of the mixing parameters, ΔLe=2\Delta L_e=2 and ΔLe=ΔLμ=1\Delta L_e=\Delta L_\mu = 1 (or ΔLe=2\Delta L_e=2 and ΔLμ=2\Delta L_\mu = 2) processes cannot simultaneously vanish, providing a no-lose theorem, in principle, for excluding the νMSM\nu_M{\rm SM}, even in the case of normal mass ordering.

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@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}
}
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