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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

We have examined the importance of momentum dependent induced nucleon currents such as weak-magnetism and pseudoscalar couplings to the amplitude of neutrinoless double beta decay in the mechanisms of light and heavy Majorana neutrino as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Simkovic , G. Pantis , J. D. Vergados , A. Faessler

The neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is studied in the framework of left-right symmetric model. The coexistence of left and right handed currents induces rather complicated interactions in the mixing of lepton and hadrons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-30 Takeshi Fukuyama , Toru Sato

Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments constrain one combination of neutrino parameters, while cosmic surveys constrain another. This complementarity opens up an exciting range of possibilities. If neutrinos are Majorana particles, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 Scott Dodelson , Joseph Lykken

We study neutrinoless double-beta decay in extensions of the Standard Model that include $n$ right-handed neutrino singlets, with masses $m_s$ below the GeV scale. Generalizing recently developed matching methods, we determine the $m_s$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Wouter Dekens , Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga

The neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay is reviewed. Model independent evidence in favor of neutrino masses and mixing is briefly summarized. The data of the recent experiments on the search for $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay are presented and some…

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

We investigate neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in the presence of sterile neutrinos with Majorana mass terms. These gauge-singlet fields are allowed to interact with Standard-Model (SM) fields via renormalizable Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Kaori Fuyuto , Emanuele Mereghetti , Guanghui Zhou

The $\lambda$ mechanism ($W_L$-$W_R$ exchange) of the neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$-decay), which has origin in left-right symmetric model with right-handed gauge boson at TeV scale, is investigated. The revisited…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-13 Fedor Šimkovic , Dušan Štefánik , Rastislav Dvornický , Amand Faessler

Neutrinoless double beta decay belongs to the most sensitive tools for the search of new physics beyond the standard model. The recent half life limit of the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment implies restrictive bounds on the absolute mass scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , H. Päs

The study of neutrinoless double-beta decay plays a fundamental role in the understanding of neutrino physics. Its observation would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles and that lepton number is not conserved. Experimental searches…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-12 Sergio Di Domizio

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a very important process both from the particle and nuclear physics point of view. Its observation will severely constrain the existing models and signal that the neutrinos are massive Majorana particles.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 J. D. Vergados

We perform a comprehensive study of the $3+3$ Type-I seesaw model for a broad range of right-handed mass scales (from keV to 10 TeV). We take into account and, in some cases, update the constraints from a large number of high- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Wouter Dekens , Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga

We explore the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu \beta\beta$) decay induced by an ultralight dark matter field coupled to neutrinos. The effect on $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay is significant if the coupling violates the lepton number, for which the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-17 Guo-yuan Huang , Newton Nath

Cosmology is making impressive progress and it is producing stringent bounds on the sum of the neutrino masses {\Sigma}, a parameter of great importance for the current laboratory experiments. In this letter, we exploit the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-15 Stefano Dell'Oro , Simone Marcocci , Matteo Viel , Francesco Vissani

A brief overview is given of theoretical analyses with neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Theoretical bounds on the ``observable'', <m>_betabeta, are presented. By using experimental bounds on <m>_betabeta, allowed regions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroaki Sugiyama

Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge on both the strong and weak interactions in the nuclear medium and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-16 J. M. Yao , J. Meng , Y. F. Niu , P. Ring

We perform a comprehensive analysis of neutrinoless double beta decay and its interplay with low-energy flavor observables in a radiative neutrino mass model with scalar leptoquarks $S_1(\bar{3},1,1/3)$ and $\widetilde{R}_2(3,2,1/6)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Srubabati Goswami , Chayan Majumdar , Debashis Pachhar

As experimental searches for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay are entering a new generation, with hopes to completely probe the inverted mass hierarchy, the need for reliable nuclear matrix elements, which govern the rate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 A. Belley , T. Miyagi , S. R. Stroberg , J. D. Holt

Neutrinoless double beta decay has been the subject of intensive theoretical work as it represents the only practical approach to discovering whether neutrinos are Majorana particles or not, and whether lepton number is a conserved quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 R. G. H. Robertson

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