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Neutrino oscillations and neutrinoless double-beta decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We consider the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy. We shown that, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses, the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay. We also discuss briefly neutrinoless double-beta decay in schemes with mixing of four neutrinos. We show that one of them is favored by the data.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912427,
  title  = {Neutrino oscillations and neutrinoless double-beta decay},
  author = {Carlo Giunti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912427},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages. Presented at TAUP'99, 6-10 September 1999, College de France, Paris, France