Neutrinoless double beta decay in Left-Right symmetric model with double seesaw mechanism
Abstract
We discuss a left-right (L-R) symmetric model with the double seesaw mechanism at the TeV scale generating Majorana masses for the active left-handed (LH) flavour neutrinos and the heavy right-handed (RH) neutrinos , , which in turn mediate lepton number violating processes, including neutrinoless double beta decay. The Higgs sector is composed of two Higgs doublets , , and a bi-doublet . The fermion sector has the usual for the L-R symmetric models quarks and leptons, along with three singlet fermion . The choice of bare Majorana mass term for these sterile fermions induces large Majorana masses for the heavy RH neutrinos leading to two sets of heavy Majorana particles and , , with masses . Working with a specific version of the model in which the and the Dirac mass terms are diagonal, and assuming that GeV and TeV, , we study in detail the new ``non-standard'' contributions to the decay amplitude and half-life arising due to the exchange of virtual and . We find that in both cases of NO and IO light neutrino mass spectra, these contributions are strongly enhanced and are dominant at relatively small values of the lightest neutrino mass eV over the light Majorana neutrino exchange contribution. In large part of the parameter space, the predictions of the model for the decay generalised effective Majorana mass and half-life are within the sensitivity range of the planned next generation of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments LEGEND-200 (LEGEND-1000), nEXO, KamlAND-Zen-II, CUPID, NEXT-HD.
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@article{arxiv.2302.14538,
title = {Neutrinoless double beta decay in Left-Right symmetric model with double seesaw mechanism},
author = {Sudhanwa Patra and S. T. Petcov and Prativa Pritimita and Purushottam Sahu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14538},
year = {2023}
}
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48 pages, 4 figures