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Status of Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The present experimental status in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay is reviewed, with emphasis on the first indication for neutrinoless double beta decay found in the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment, giving first evidence for lepton number violation and a Majorana nature of the neutrinos. Future perspectives of the field are briefly outlined.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0302248,
  title  = {Status of Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay},
  author = {H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and A. Dietz and I. V. Krivosheina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0302248},
  year   = {2008}
}

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37 pages, latex, 23 figures, Published in Found. Phys. 32 (2002) 1181-1223 and Presented at Fourth Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, DARK2002, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 - 9 February, 2002, eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Viollier, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, (2002) 367-403 see Home Page of Heidelberg Non-Accelerator Particle Physics Group: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc/buecher.html#DARK2002