Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-11 v1
Abstract
Neutrinoless double beta decay is the most powerful tool to probe not only for Majorana neutrino masses but for lepton number violating physics in general. We discuss relations between lepton number violation, double beta decay and neutrino mass, review a general Lorentz invariant parametrization of the double beta decay rate, highlight a number of different new physics models showing how different mechanisms can trigger double beta decay, and finally discuss possibilities to discriminate and test these models and mechanisms in complementary experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1208.0727,
title = {Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Physics Beyond the Standard Model},
author = {Frank F. Deppisch and Martin Hirsch and Heinrich Päs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0727},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
31 pages, 10 figures, contribution to focus issue on Double Beta Decay in J. Phys. G