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The first results from the JUNO reactor neutrino oscillation experiment improve our knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing parameters, especially the solar angle $\theta_s \equiv \theta_{12}$ and the solar mass squared difference $\Delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Shao-Feng Ge , Chui-Fan Kong , Manfred Lindner , João Paulo Pinheiro

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

Spectroscopic studies of two beta-rays from 100Mo are shown to be of potential interest for investigating both the Majorana neutrino mass by neutrinoless double beta-decay and low energy solar neutrino's by inverse beta-decay. With a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ejiri , J. Engel , R. Hazama , P. Krastev , N. Kudomi , R. G. H. Robertson

If the electron neutrino has an effective nonzero Majorana mass, then neutrinoless double beta decay will occur. However, the latter is possible also with a negligible neutrino mass. We show how this may happen in a simple model of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Biswajoy Brahmachari , Ernest Ma

We consider the possibility to gain information on the lepton mixing matrix element |U_{e3}| from an improved experimental limit on the effective neutrino mass governing neutrino-less double beta decay. We show that typically a lower limit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-17 Alexander Merle , Werner Rodejohann

The mechanism of beta decay in nature is not understood yet. Mirrored energy spectra of electron and antineutrino can clarify the situation. A special experiment is needed to measure antineutrino spectrum from known beta-decaying isotope to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-26 S. V. Silaeva , V. V. Sinev

We discuss the potential of neutrinoless double beta decay for testing Lorentz invariance and the weak equivalence principle as well as contributions from dilaton exchange gravity in the neutrino sector. While neutrino oscillation bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , H. Päs , U. Sarkar

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

Half-life estimates for neutrinoless double beta decay depend on particle physics models for lepton flavor violation, as well as on nuclear physics models for the structure and transitions of candidate nuclei. Different models considered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. M. Rotunno

Recent considerations by these authors pointed out the attractive features which a search for the exchange of heavy Majorana neutrinos could have for solving the mass and the lepton number puzzles for all neutrinos, in TeV-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Clemens A. Heusch , Peter Minkowski

We study the general phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay in seesaw models. In particular, we focus on the dependence of the neutrinoless double beta decay rate on the mass of the extra states introduced to account for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Mattias Blennow , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon , Javier Menendez

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

Nearly 70 years since the neutrino was discovered, and 25 years since discovery of neutrino oscillations established its non-zero mass, the absolute neutrino-mass scale remains unknown. Due to its unique characteristics, determining this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-14 Larisa A. Thorne

The current experimental status of neutrino physics is reviewed. It contains the evidences for a non-vanishing neutrino rest mass from neutrino oscillation searches. In addition an outlook is given on determining the various mixing matrix…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Zuber

In short-baseline experiments such as LSND and MiniBooNE, an excess of electron neutrinos has been observed, originating from a muon neutrino beam. To address this anomaly, in the line of many works, we investigate various neutrino mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Priya , Simran Arora , B. C. Chauhan

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

We make a comparative study of the neutrinoless double beta decay constraints on heavy sterile neutrinos versus other direct and indirect constraints from both lepton number conserving and violating processes, as a sensitive probe of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-02 Patrick D. Bolton , Frank F. Deppisch , P. S. Bhupal Dev

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay is a hypothesised nuclear process in which two neutrons simultaneously decay into protons with no neutrino emission. The prized observation of this decay would point to the existence of a process that violates…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-12-19 L. Cardani

The latest cosmological constraints on the sum of neutrino masses, in combination with the latest laboratory measurements on oscillations, provide ``decisive" Bayesian evidence for the normal neutrino mass hierarchy. We show that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay , Kathleen Short , Fergus Simpson , Licia Verde