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The neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay and the neutrino mass hierarchy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

Recently the evidence of the neutrinoless double β\beta (0νββ0\nu \beta\beta) decay has been announced. This means that neutrinos are Majorana particles and their mass hierarchy is forced to certain patterns in the diagonal basis of charged lepton mass matrix. We estimate the magnitude of 0νββ0\nu \beta\beta decay in the classification of the neutrino mass hierarchy patterns as Type A, m1,2m3m_{1,2} \ll m_{3}, Type B, m1m2m3m_1 \sim m_2 \gg m_3, and Type C, m1m2m3m_1 \sim m_2 \sim m_3, where mim_{i} is the ii-th generation neutrino absolute mass. The data of 0νββ0\nu \beta\beta decay experiment suggests the neutrino mass hierarchy pattern should be Type B or C. Type B predicts a small magnitude of 0νββ0\nu \beta\beta decay which is just edge of the allowed region of experimental value in 9595% \mathrm{c.l.}, where Majorana CP phases should be in a certain parameter region. Type C can induce the suitably large amount of 0νββ0\nu \beta\beta decay which is consistent with the experimental data, where overall scale of degenerate neutrino mass plays a crucial role, and its large value can induce the large 0νββ0\nu \beta\beta decay in any parameter regions of Majorana CP phases.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0202143,
  title  = {The neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay and the neutrino mass hierarchy},
  author = {Naoyuki Haba and Tomoharu Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0202143},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX