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Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in LRSM with Natural Type-II seesaw Dominance

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-23 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We present a detailed discussion on neutrinoless double beta decay within a class of left-right symmetric models where neutrino mass originates by natural type-II seesaw dominance. The spontaneous symmetry breaking is implemented with doublets, triplets and bidoublet scalars. The fermion sector is extended with an extra sterile neutrino per generation that helps in implementing the seesaw mechanism. The presence of extra particles in the model exactly cancels type-I seesaw and allows large value for Dirac neutrino mass matrix MDM_D. The key feature of this work is that all the physical masses and mixing are expressed in terms of neutrino oscillation parameters and lightest neutrino mass thereby facilitating to constrain light neutrino masses from 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay. With this large value of MDM_D new contributions arise due to; i) purely left-handed current via exchange of heavy right-handed neutrinos as well as sterile neutrinos, ii) the so called λ\lambda and η\eta diagrams. New physics contributions also arise from right-handed currents with right-handed gauge boson WRW_R mass around 33~TeV. From the numerical study, we find that the new contributions to 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay not only saturate the current experimental bound but also give lower limit on absolute scale of lightest neutrino mass and favor NH pattern of light neutrino mass hierarchy.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07655,
  title  = {Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in LRSM with Natural Type-II seesaw Dominance},
  author = {Prativa Pritimita and Nitali Dash and Sudhanwa Patra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07655},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

40 pages, Discussion added on NMEs uncertainty, Version accepted in JHEP