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We study the contribution of massive dominantly sterile neutrinos, $N$, to the Lepton Number and Lepton Flavor Violating semileptonic decays of $\tau$ and $B, D, K$-mesons. We focus on special domains of sterile neutrino masses $m_{N}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-27 Juan Carlos Helo , Sergey Kovalenko , Ivan Schmidt

We consider the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy. We shown that, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlo Giunti

The possibility to probe new physics scenarios of light Majorana neutrino exchange and right-handed currents at the planned next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiment SuperNEMO is discussed. Its ability to study different…

We have studied the constraints imposed by the results of neutrino oscillation experiments on the effective Majorana mass |<m>| that characterizes the contribution of Majorana neutrino masses to the matrix element of neutrinoless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , M. Monteno

We present a proof-of-concept extension to the Standard Model that can generate a non-vanishing neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) signal without the existence of Majorana neutrinos or lepton number violation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Lukáš Gráf , Sudip Jana , Oliver Scholer , Nele Volmer

The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of nuclei is one of the major research subjects of neutrino physics nowadays because of its influence on particle physics and astrophysics. The predicted nuclear matrix elements…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 J. Terasaki , O. Civitarese

Neutrino mass explanations of the solar and atmospheric neutrino deficits and a hot dark matter component require one of three patterns of those masses, as already pointed out by us. Recently there have been indications of a non-vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David O. Caldwell , Rabindra N. Mohapatra

Neutrino masses can be generated radiatively. In such scenarios their masses are calculated by evaluating a self-energy diagram with vanishing external momentum, i.e. taking only the leading order term in a momentum expansion. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

Neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decays of spin-1/2 hyperons are investigated in a covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory framework, extended by a $\Delta L=2$ operator proportional to the Majorana neutrino mass, where $L$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Zi-Ying Zhao , Ze-Rui Liang , Feng-Kun Guo , Li-Ping He , De-Liang Yao

A possible model independent test of the theoretically calculated nuclear matrix elements of $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay is proposed. The test can be accomplished if $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay of three (or more) nuclei is observed. The selection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky , S. T. Petcov

Assuming 3-$\nu$ mixing, massive Majorana neutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta (\betabeta-) decay generated only by the (V-A) charged current weak interaction via the exchange of the three Majorana neutrinos, we briefly review the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Pascoli , S. T. Petcov , T. Schwetz

We obtain predictions for the neutrino masses, the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double beta decay and for the rates of the lepton flavor violating processes $\mu\rightarrow e + \gamma$, $\tau \rightarrow e + \gamma$ and $ \tau…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-06 Mu-Chun Chen , Kalyana T. Mahanthappa , Aurora Meroni , S. T. Petcov

The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear decay, which can be used for determining the neutrino-mass scale. The scheme to use this decay for determining the neutrino-mass scale is one of few limited methods…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 J. Terasaki

There are three observables related to neutrino mass, namely the kinematic mass in direct searches, the effective mass in neutrino-less double beta decay, and the sum of neutrino masses in cosmology. In the limit of exactly degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Werner Rodejohann

In the introductory part we briefly consider basics of neutrino oscillations and convenient phenomenology of neutrino oscillations in vacuum. Main part of this report is dedicated to a discussion of a plausible BSM scenarios of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-13 S. M. Bilenky

The motivation, present status, and future plans of the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay are reviewed. It is argued that, motivated by the recent observations of neutrino oscillations, there is a reasonable hope that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Steven R. Elliott , Petr Vogel

The compelling experimental evidences for oscillations of solar, reactor, atmospheric and accelerator neutrinos imply the existence of 3-neutrino mixing in the weak charged lepton current. The current data on the 3-neutrino mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-26 S. T. Petcov

Neutrinoless double beta decay pops up almost in any extension of the standard model. It is perhaps the only process, which can unambiguously determine whether the massive neutrinos are Majorana or Dirac type particles. In addition from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Vergados

We study the general phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay in seesaw models. In particular, we focus on the dependence of the neutrinoless double beta decay rate on the mass of the extra states introduced to account for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon , Javier Menendez

A generalisation of the neutrinoless double beta decay process is presented. Neutrinoless double beta decay measures only one out of nine possible effective Majorana neutrino masses in case of three flavours. Limits obtained for all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Zuber