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This is the first paper of our systematic efforts on lepton number violating (LNV) hadronic decays in the effective field theory approach. These decays provide information complementary to popular nuclear neutrinoless double-$\beta$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Hao-Lin Wang

We analyze neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) within the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. Apart from the dimension-five Weinberg operator, the first contributions appear at dimension seven. We classify…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-29 V. Cirigliano , W. Dekens , J. de Vries , M. L. Graesser , E. Mereghetti

We compute the leading-logarithmic correction to the neutrino mass matrix in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) to dimension seven. In the limit of negligible lepton and down-type quark Yukawa couplings, it receives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-06 Mikael Chala , Arsenii Titov

We investigate contributions to the anomalous magnetic moments of charged leptons in the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory ($\nu$SMEFT). We discuss how $\nu$SMEFT operators can contribute to a lepton's magnetic moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-24 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Kaori Fuyuto , Emanuele Mereghetti , Richard Ruiz

We analyze the sensitivity of next-generation tonne-scale neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) experiments and searches for same-sign di-electrons plus jets at the Large Hadron Collider to TeV scale lepton number violating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-11 Tao Peng , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Peter Winslow

The conservation of lepton flavor is a prediction of the Standard Model and is still an excellent approximate symmetry despite our observation of neutrino oscillations. Lepton flavor violation by one or two units have been discussed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili , Anil Thapa

In the context of TeV-scale lepton number violating (LNV) interactions, we illustrate the interplay between leptogenesis, neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay, and LNV searches at proton-proton colliders. Using a concrete model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Julia Harz , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tianyang Shen , Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga

Baryon number is an accidental symmetry of the Standard Model at the Lagrangian level. Its violation is arguably one of the most compelling phenomena predicted by physics beyond the Standard Model. Furthermore, there is a large experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Arnau Bas i Beneito , John Gargalionis , Juan Herrero-Garcia , Arcadi Santamaria , Michael A. Schmidt

We investigate constraints on couplings of Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) operators contributing to $Wtb$ effective vertex at tree level. We study the one-loop level impact of these couplings on the low-energy flavour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Subhajit Kala , Lipika Kolay , Lopamudra Mukherjee , Soumitra Nandi

We show that lepton number violating muon decays, \mu^+ -> e^+ + \nu_e-bar + \nu_i-bar (i=e, \mu or \tau), can consistently explain the neutrino anomaly reported by the LSND experiment. Two effective operators in the Standard Model are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Babu , Sandip Pakvasa

The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge in a low-background liquid argon environment. Building on key technological…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-01 H. Acharya , N. Ackermann , M. Agostini , A. Alexander , C. Andreoiu , G. R. Araujo , F. T. Avignone , M. Babicz , W. Bae , A. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , A. S. Barabash , P. S. Barbeau , C. J. Barton , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bernieri , L. Bezrukov , K. H. Bhimani , V. Biancacci , E. Blalock , S. J. Borden , G. Borghi , F. Borra , B. Bos , A. Boston , V. Bothe , R. Bouabid , R. Brugnera , N. Burlac , M. Busch , S. Calgaro , L. Canonica , S. Capra , M. Carminati , R. M. D. Carney , C. Cattadori , R. Cesarano , Y. -D. Chan , J. R. Chapman , A. Chernogorov , P. -J. Chiu , C. D. Christofferson , M. L. Clark , A. I. Colon-Rivera , T. Comellato , V. D'Andrea , R. Deckert , J. A. Detwiler , A. Di Giacinto , N. Di Marco , T. Dixon , K. -M. Dong , A. Drobizhev , G. Duran , Yu. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , C. H. J. Emmanuel , E. Engelhardt , E. Esch , M. T. Febbraro , F. Ferella , D. E. Fields , C. Fiorini , M. Fomina , N. Fuad , R. Gala , A. Galindo-Uribarri , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , S. Gazzana , A. Geraci , L. Gessler , C. Ghiano , A. Gieb , S. Giri , M. Gold , C. Gooch , G. Grünauer , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , V. Gurentsov , Y. Gurov , K. Gusev , B. Hackett , F. Hagemann , M. Haranczyk , F. Henkes , R. Henning , J. Herrera , D. Hervas Aguilar , J. Hinton , R. Hodák , H. F. R. Hoffmann , M. A. Howe , M. Huber , M. Hult , A. Ianni , K. Jędrzejczak , J. Jochum , R. W. L. Jones , D. S. Judson , M. Junker , J. Kaizer , V. Kazalov , M. F. Kidd , T. Kihm , K. Kilgus , A. Klimenko , K. T. Knöpfle , I. Kochanek , O. Kochetov , I. Kontul , L. L. Kormos , V. N. Kornoukhov , P. Krause , H. Krishnamoorthy , V. V. Kuzminov , K. Lang , M. Laubenstein , N. N. P. N. Lay , E. León , A. Leder , B. Lehnert , A. Leonhardt , N. Levashko , L. Y. Li , A. Li , Y. -R. Lin , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Love , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , N. Lusardi , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , F. Mamedov , L. Manzanillas , G. G. Marshall , R. D. Martin , E. L. Martin , R. Massarczyk , A. Mazumdar , G. McDowell , D. -M. Mei , S. P. Meireles , M. Menzel , S. Mertens , E. Miller , I. Mirza , M. Misiaszek , M. Morella , B. Morgan , T. Mroz , D. Muenstermann , C. J. Nave , I. Nemchenok , M. Neuberger , N. O'Briant , F. Paissan , L. Papp , L. S. Paudel , K. Pelczar , L. Pertoldi , W. Pettus , F. Piastra , M. Pichotta , P. Piseri , A. W. P. Poon , P. P. Povinec , M. Pruckner , A. Pullia , W. S. Quinn , D. C. Radford , Y. A. Ramachers , A. Razeto , M. Redchuk , A. L. Reine , S. Riboldi , K. Rielage , C. Romo-Luque , N. Rossi , S. Rozov , T. J. Ruland , N. Rumyantseva , J. Runge , R. Saakyan , S. Sailer , G. Salamanna , F. Salamida , G. Saleh , V. Sandukovsky , C. Savarese , S. Schönert , A. -K. Schütz , D. C. Schaper , L. Schlüter , S. J. Schleich , O. Schulz , M. Schwarz , B. Schwingenheuer , C. Seibt , O. Selivanenko , G. Senatore , A. Serafini , K. Shakhov , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , Y. Shitov , H. Simgen , F. Šimkovic , S. Simonaitis-Boyd , M. Skorokhvatov , M. Slavíčková , A. Smolnikov , J. A. Solomon , G. Song , A. C. Sousa , A. R. Sreekala , L. Steinhart , I. Štekl , T. Sterr , M. Stommel , S. A. Sullivan , R. R. Sumathi , K. Szczepaniec , L. Taffarello , D. Tagnani , D. J. Tedeschi , T. N. Thorpe , V. Tretyak , M. Turqueti , E. E. Van Nieuwenhuizen , L. J. Varriano , S. Vasilyev , A. Veresnikova , C. Vignoli , C. Vogl , K. von Sturm , A. Warren , D. Waters , S. L. Watkins , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , M. Willers , C. Wiseman , M. Wojcik , D. Xu , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , T. Ye , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov , D. Zinatulina , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

We investigate lepton number violation (LNV) induced by $\Delta L = 2$ dimension-seven Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) operators in the context of same-sign muon colliders. Specifically, we study $\mu^+ \mu^+ \rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Soumyajit Datta , Abhik Sarkar

The scotogenic neutrino seesaw model is a minimal extension of the standard model with three $\mathbb{Z}_2$-odd right-handed singlet fermions $N$ and one $\mathbb{Z}_2$-odd Higgs doublet $\eta$ that can accommodate the tiny neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a robust framework for probing deviations in the couplings of Standard Model particles from their theoretical predictions. This framework relies on an expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-22 Nilabhra Adhikary , Tisa Biswas , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Michael Spannowsky

Understanding the origin of lepton number violation is one of the fundamental questions in particle physics today. Neutrinoless double beta decay provides a way in which this violation can be tested. In this article, we derive the form of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-19 Jenni Kotila , Jacopo Ferretti , Francesco Iachello

In this work we study the short-range contributions that induce effective lepton number violating (LNV) interactions. We obtain a full set of constraints on the effective short-range couplings from a large variety of low-energy $|\Delta L|=…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-07 Nestor Quintero

We present $\nu$DoBe, a Python tool for the computation of neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) rates in terms of lepton-number-violating operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). The tool can be used for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Oliver Scholer , Jordy de Vries , Lukáš Gráf

For a large set of flavor symmetries, the lowest-dimensional baryon- or lepton-number violating operators in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) with flavor symmetry are of mass dimension 9. As a consequence, baryon- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 Andreas Helset , Andrew Kobach

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic framework to probe indirect effects of heavy new physics via precision measurements. While SMEFT constraints have been extensively studied using purely leptonic $Z$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Zijian Wang , Tianyi Yang , Tianyu Mu , Andrew Levin , Qiang Li

We study the Standard Model effective field theory ($\nu$SMEFT) extended with operators involving right-handed neutrinos, focussing on the regime where the right-handed neutrinos decay promptly on collider scales to a photon and a Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Anke Biekötter , Mikael Chala , Michael Spannowsky