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Observation of neutrinoless double beta decay, a lepton number violating process that has been proposed to clarify the nature of neutrino masses, has spawned an enormous world-wide experimental effort. Relating nuclear decay rates to…

We compare the discovery potential of the LHC for lepton number violating (LNV) signals with the sensitivity of current and future double beta decay experiments, assuming 0\nu\beta\beta decay is dominated by heavy particle exchange. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-09 J. C. Helo , M. Hirsch , S. G. Kovalenko , H. Pas

Neutrinoless double beta decay occurs through the magnetic coupling of dimension five, $\lambda_W/m_{\nu*}$, among the excited electron neutrino $\nu^*$, electron and $W$ boson if $\nu^*$ is a massive Majorana neutrino. (\lambda_W m_W /…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Eiichi Takasugi

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay would offer proof of lepton number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also helping us understand why there is more matter than…

We perform the calculation of nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double beta decays under a Left-Right symmetric model mediated by light neutrino, and we adopt the spherical quasi-particle random-phase approximation (QRPA)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Ri-Guang Huang , You-Cai Chen , Dong-Liang Fang

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($\znbb$) induced by superparticle exchange is investigated. Such a supersymmetric (SUSY) mechanism of $\znbb$ decay arises within SUSY theories with R-parity non-conservation (\rp). We consider the minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 M. Hirsch , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , S. G. Kovalenko

The predicted neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the crucial phenomenon to prove the existence of the Majorana neutrino, which gives a foundation to leptogenesis to explain the matter prevalence of the universe. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Jun Terasaki

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 decompose the neutrinoless double-beta decay matrix elements into sums of products over the intermediate nucleus with two less nucleons. We find that the sum is dominated by the J^pi=0^+ ground state of this intermediate nucleus for both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 B. A. Brown , M. Horoi , R. A. Sen'kov

Background: Direct determination of the neutrino mass through double-$\beta$ decay is at the present time one of the most important areas of experimental and theoretical research in nuclear and particle physics. Purpose: We calculate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-18 J. Barea , J. Kotila , F. Iachello

Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a predicted beyond Standard Model process that could clarify some of the not yet known neutrino properties, such as the mass scale, the mass hierarchy, and its nature as a Dirac or Majorana fermion. Should…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 Andrei Neacsu , Mihai Horoi

We discuss a mechanism of neutrinoless double beta decay, where neutrinos of different flavours come into play. This is realized by effective flavour-violating scalar interactions. As one consequence, we find that within the normal mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-15 Lukas Graf , Sudip Jana , Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann , Xun-Jie Xu

The study of the neutrinoless double beta ($0 \beta\beta$) decay mode can provide us with important information on the neutrino properties, particularly on the electron neutrino absolute mass. In this work we revise the present constraints…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-25 Sabin Stoica , Andrei Neacsu

We analyze neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay ($\nbb$-decay) mediated by heavy particles from the standpoint of effective field theory. We show how symmetries of the $\nbb$-decay quark operators arising in a given particle physics model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 Gary Prézeau , M. Ramsey-Musolf , Petr Vogel

The $(\beta ^{-}\beta ^{-})_{0\nu}$ decay of $^{94,96}$Zr, $^{98,100}$Mo, $^{104}$Ru, $^{110}$Pd, $^{128,130}$Te and $^{150}$Nd isotopes for the $0^{+}\to 0^{+}$ transition is studied in the Projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov framework. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Chaturvedi , R. Chandra , P. K. Rath , P. K. Raina , J. G. Hirsch

Double-beta processes play a key role in the exploration of neutrino and weak interaction properties, and in the searches for effects beyond the Standard Model. During the last half century many attempts were undertaken to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 K. Blaum , S. Eliseev , F. A. Danevich , V. I. Tretyak , Sergey Kovalenko , M. I. Krivoruchenko , Yu. N. Novikov , J. Suhonen

A simple and precise method is presented to compare contributions to neutrinoless double-beta decay ($\nbb$-decay) from heavy particle exchange and light Majorana neutrino exchange. This procedure makes no assumptions about the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 Gary Prézeau

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a sensitive probe of the patterns of neutrino masses and mixings if the neutrinos are Majorana particles as well as other new physics scenarios beyond the standard model. In this talk, the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. N. Mohapatra

Neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the most promising way to determine whether neutrinos are Majorana particles. There are many experiments based on different isotopes searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay. Combining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-18 Shao-Long Chen , Yu-Qi Xiao

We start from a Left-Right Symmetric Model and we analyze the beta decay of the free neutron $n\to p+e^{-}+\bar{\nu}_{e}$. We applied this model to incorporate the right currents, whereby we propose an amplitude whose leptonic part contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez , M. A. Hernández-Ruíz , C. López-González , M. Maya