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At least one neutrino has a mass of about 50 meV or larger. However, the absolute mass scale for the neutrino remains unknown. Furthermore, the critical question: Is the neutrino its own antiparticle? is unanswered. Studies of double beta…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-04-20 Steven R. Elliott

Thanks to oscillation experiments it is now an established fact that neutrinos are massive particles. Yet, the assessment of neutrinos absolute mass scale is still an outstanding challenge in particle physics and cosmology as oscillation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andrea Giachero

Within the standard three-neutrino framework, the absolute neutrino masses and their ordering (either normal, NO, or inverted, IO) are currently unknown. However, the combination of current data coming from oscillation experiments,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 Francesco Capozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Eligio Lisi , Antonio Marrone , Alessandro Melchiorri , Antonio Palazzo

Neutrino oscillation and tritium beta decay experiments taken simultaneously into account are able to access the so far imperceptible absolute neutrino masses at the electronvolt level. The neutrino mass spectrum derived in this way is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-21 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , J. Studnik , M. Zralek

The possibility to access the absolute neutrino mass scale through the measurement of the wrong helicity contribution of charged leptons is investigated in pion decay. Through this method, one may have access to the same effective mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-16 C. C. Nishi

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

It has been shown that neutrino masses can be determined under the particle ansatz. In this paper, we give the general formulas of neutrino masses related to the neutrino oscillation parameters which show that there is a mass hierarchy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-01 Wen-Jie Wu , Xiang Zhou

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

With the compelling evidence for massive neutrinos from recent neutrino oscillation experiments, one of the most fundamental tasks of particle physics over the next years will be the determination of the absolute mass scale of neutrinos,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Weinheimer

Most of what is known about neutrino masses and mixings results from studies of oscillation phenomena. We focus on those neutrino properties that are not amenable to such studies: $\Sigma $, the sum of the absolute values of the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Sheldon L. Glashow

The paper reviews recent experiments on tritium beta spectroscopy searching for the absolute value of the electron neutrino mass $m(\nu_e)$. By use of dedicated electrostatic filters with high acceptance and resolution, the uncertainty on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-05-24 E. W. Otten , C. Weinheimer

After a short review of the current status of three-neutrino mixing, the implications for the values of neutrino masses are discussed. The bounds on the absolute scale of neutrino masses from Tritium beta-decay and cosmological data are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlo Giunti

In the light of recent neutrino oscillation and non-oscillation data, we revisit the phenomenological constraints applicable to three observables sensitive to absolute neutrino masses: The effective neutrino mass in single beta decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. Marrone , A. Melchiorri , A. Palazzo , P. Serra , J. Silk , A. Slosar

We present a determination of the neutrino mass matrix which holds for values of the neutrinoless double beta decay effective mass m_{ee} larger than the neutrino mass differences. We find eight possible solutions and discuss for each one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-12 Thomas Hambye

The turn of the 21st century witnessed a sudden shift in our fundamental understanding of particle physics. While the minimal Standard Model predicts that neutrino masses are exactly zero, the discovery of neutrino oscillations proved the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-05-21 Joseph A. Formaggio , André Luiz C. de Gouvêa , R. G. Hamish Robertson

Study of the neutrinoless double beta decay and searches for the manifestation of the neutrino mass in ordinary beta decay are the main sources of information about the absolute neutrino mass scale, and the only practical source of…

At least one neutrino has a mass of about 50 meV or larger. However, the absolute mass scale for the neutrino remains unknown. Studies of double beta decay offer hope for determining the absolute mass scale. Furthermore, the critical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-03-23 Steven R. Elliott

We investigate the way how the total mass sum of neutrinos can be constrained from the neutrinoless double beta decay and cosmological probes with cosmic microwave background (WMAP 3-year results), large scale structures including 2dFGRS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Yong-Yeon Keum , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Taka Kajino

The neutrino oscillations probabilities depend on mass squared differences; in the case of 3-neutrino mixing, there are two independent differences, which have been measured experimentally. In order to calculate the absolute masses of…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic

We present a concise formula to relate the effective mass term of the neutrinoless double beta decay to a single neutrino mass, two Majorana CP-violating phases and four observables of neutrino oscillations for a generic neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhi-zhong Xing