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Recently the evidence of the neutrinoless double $\beta$ ($0\nu \beta\beta$) decay has been announced. This means that neutrinos are Majorana particles and their mass hierarchy is forced to inverted mass hierarchy (Type B) or degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Naoyuki Haba , Noboru Nakamura , Tomoharu Suzuki

Searches for neutrino-less double-beta decay ($0\nu2\beta$) place an important constraint on models where light fields beyond the Standard Model participate in the neutrino mass mechanism. While $0\nu2\beta$ experimental collaborations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Kfir Blum , Yosef Nir , Michal Shavit

We present the possible influence on the half-life of neutrinoless double beta decay coming from the existence of $n$ extra spatial dimensions. The half-life in question depends on the mass of the electron neutrino. We base our analysis on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Marek Góźdź , W. A. Kamiński

While neutrino oscillation experiments have demonstrated that neutrinos have small, nonzero masses, much remains unknown about their properties and decay modes. One potential decay mode --- neutrinoless double beta decay ($0 \nu \beta…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-11-15 W. Detmold , D. J. Murphy

We investigate neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay within an extended Standard Model framework based on the $SU(3)_C\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes SU(3)_R \otimes U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, commonly referred to as the filliped…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 D. N. Dinh

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

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a promising test for lepton number violating physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. There is a deep connection between this decay and the phenomenon of neutrino masses. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-30 Michael Duerr

The subprocess $nn\to ppe^-e^-$ is a key ingredient in the interpretation of nuclear neutrinoless double-beta decay. Intermediate $\Delta$ resonances may provide additional enhancements to this transition. We take a first step toward a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Li-Ping He , Feng-Kun Guo , Ulf-G. Meißner , De-Liang Yao , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Zhen-Hua Zhang

We give a brief review of the existing bounds on effective couplings for excited states ($e^*, \nu^*, u^*, d^* $) of the ordinary quarks and leptons arising from a composite model scenario. We then explore the phenomenological implications…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Orlando Panella

Double beta decay is indispensable to solve the question of the neutrino mass matrix together with $\nu$ oscillation experiments. Recent analysis of the most sensitive experiment since nine years - the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most powerful tools to set the neutrino mass absolute scale and establish whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle. After a summary of the neutrinoless double beta decay phenomenology, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Nucciotti

The zero neutrino mode of the double beta decay in heavy deformed nuclei is investigated in the framework of the pseudo SU(3) model, which has provided an accurate description of collective nuclear structure and predicted half-lives for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jorge G. Hirsch , O. Castaños , P. O. Hess

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a very important process both from the particle and nuclear physics point of view. From the elementary particle point of view it pops up in almost every model. giving rise, among others, to the following…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

We revisit the impact of heavy neutrinos with masses in the MeV-GeV range on neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in view of updated results for the lifetime of this process. Working in a minimal realistic extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-21 J. de Vries , M. Drewes , Y. Georis , J. Klarić , V. Plakkot

In view of recent great progress achieved in the experimental study of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb-decay) of 134Xe we discuss theoretical aspects of this process. The light and heavy Majorana neutrino exchange as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fedor Simkovic , Pavol Domin , Amand Faessler

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

A general Lorentz--invariant parameterization for the long-range part of the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay rate is derived. Combined with the short range part this general parameterization in terms of effective $B-L$ violating couplings will allow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Päs , M. Hirsch , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , S. G. Kovalenko

We investigate the process of lepton-number-violating pion decay, which dominates the nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay induced by the short-range operator, within the type-\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral1} seesaw mechanism. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 You-Cai Chen , Tai-Xing Liu , Dong-Liang Fang

Neutrinoless double beta decay allows to constrain lepton number violating extensions of the standard model. If neutrinos are Majorana particles, the mass mechanism will always contribute to the decay rate, however, it is not a priori…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 J. C. Helo , M. Hirsch , T. Ota , F. A. Pereira dos Santos

After nearly 80 years since the first guess on its existence, neutrino still escapes our insight: the mass and the true nature (Majorana or Dirac) of this particle is still unknown. In the past ten years, neutrino oscillation experiments…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-12-17 O. Cremonesi , M. Pavan