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Considering the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, it is shown that the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Giunti

When three Majorana neutrinos describe the solar and atmospheric neutrino data via oscillations, a nonzero measurement of neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay can determine the sum of neutrino masses $\sum m_\nu$ if the solar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , K. Whisnant

The predictions for the effective Majorana mass |<m>| in neutrinoless double-beta decay in the case of 3-neutrino mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos are reviewed. The physics potential of the experiments, searching for neutrinoless…

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

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

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

Neutrinoless double beta decay (\( 0 \nu \beta \beta \)) is a hypothetical nuclear decay mode with important implications. In particular, observation of this decay would demonstrate that the neutrino is a Majorana particle and that lepton…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-04-17 W. Detmold , D. J. Murphy

The extension of Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of the neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) with the inclusion of right-handed leptonic and hadronic currents is revisited. While only the exchange of light neutrinos is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-11 Dusan Stefanik , Rastislav Dvornicky , Fedor Simkovic , Petr Vogel

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

Two most outstanding questions are puzzling the world of neutrino Physics: the possible Majorana nature of neutrinos and their absolute mass scale. Direct neutrino mass measurements and neutrinoless double beta decay (0nuDBD) are the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-02-09 Oliviero Cremonesi

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

Study of the neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Petr Vogel

The Majorana nature of massive neutrinos will be crucially probed in the next-generation experiments of the neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu 2\beta$) decay. The effective mass term of this process, $\langle m\rangle^{}_{ee}$, may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Zhi-zhong Xing , Zhen-hua Zhao , Ye-Ling Zhou

Combined bounds on the Majorana neutrino mass for light and heavy neutrino exchange mechanisms are derived from current neutrinoless double beta decay (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) search results for a variety of nuclear matrix element (NME)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-14 Steven D. Biller

A natural explanation for the smallness of the neutrino mass requires them to be Majorana particles violating lepton number by two units. Since lepton number violation can have several interesting consequences in particle physics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-12-18 Utpal Sarkar

Assuming that neutrinos are Majorana particles, in a three generation framework, current and future neutrino oscillation experiments can determine six out of the nine parameters which fully describe the structure of the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Nunokawa , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

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

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

Observing neutrinoless double beta decay would establish lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Within the standard 3-flavour paradigm, the rate of this process is controlled by the effective Majorana mass $|\langle m…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-10 J. T. Penedo , S. T. Petcov

Neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a rare hypothesised process that, if discovered, would establish that the neutrino is Majorana, that is, it is its own antiparticle. Interpretation of experimental results relies on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-29 Anthony V. Grebe

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a rich source for new physics. The observation of this decay will lead to understanding of the absolute mass scale of neutrinos, the Majorana nature of the neutrino (whether the neutrino is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-16 Lisa J. Kaufman