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We have examined the importance of momentum dependent induced nucleon currents such as weak-magnetism and pseudoscalar couplings to the amplitude of neutrinoless double beta decay in the mechanisms of light and heavy Majorana neutrino as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Simkovic , G. Pantis , J. D. Vergados , A. Faessler

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

Lepton number violation plays an essential role in many scenarios of neutrino mass generation and also provides new clues to search new physics beyond the standard model. We consider the neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model ($\nu$-2HDM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-04 Weijian Wang , Zhi-Long Han

Neutrinoless double beta decay violates lepton number by two units, a positive observation therefore necessarily implies physics beyond the standard model. Here, three possible contributions to neutrinoless double beta decay are briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hirsch

We present detailed arguments and calculations in support of our recent proposal to identify the axion arising in the solution of the strong CP problem with the Majoron, the (pseudo-)Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken lepton number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Adam Latosinski , Krzysztof A. Meissner , Hermann Nicolai

We consider the inverse Seesaw scenario for neutrino masses with the approximate Lepton number symmetry broken dynamically by a scalar with Lepton number two. We show that the Majoron associated to the spontaneous symmetry breaking can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Mathias Pierre , Emanuelle Pinsard , Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz

We propose an A_4 flavor-symmetric SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) seesaw model where lepton number is broken spontaneously. A consistent two-zero texture pattern of neutrino masses and mixing emerges from the interplay of type-I and type-II seesaw…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 J. N. Esteves , F. R. Joaquim , A. S. Joshipura , J. C. Romao , M. A. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

Recent experimental results suggest that the neutrinos of the Standard Model are massive, though light. Therefore they may mix with each other giving rise to lepton flavour or even lepton number violating processes, depending on whether…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose I. Illana , Tord Riemann

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

In models where the breaking of lepton number is spontaneous a massless Goldstone boson, the Majoron ($J$), appears. We calculate the theoretically allowed range for the branching ratios of Majoron emitting charged lepton decays, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Hirsch , J. Meyer , W. Porod , A. Vicente

We consider the contributions to the neutrinoless double beta decays in a $SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_N$ electroweak model. We show that for a range of the parameters in the model there are diagrams involving vector-vector-scalar and trilinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Montero , C. A. de S. Pires , V. Pleitez

There are three observables related to neutrino mass, namely the kinematic mass in direct searches, the effective mass in neutrino-less double beta decay, and the sum of neutrino masses in cosmology. In the limit of exactly degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 Werner Rodejohann

Spontaneous violation of R parity can induce rare single photon decays of the $Z^0$ involving the emission of (nearly) massless pseudoscalar Goldstone bosons, majorons, as well as massive CP even or CP odd spin zero bosons that arise in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 J. C. Romão , J. Rosiek , J. W. F. Valle

Neutrinoless double beta decay has been the subject of intensive theoretical work as it represents the only practical approach to discovering whether neutrinos are Majorana particles or not, and whether lepton number is a conserved quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 R. G. H. Robertson

The electron and muon number violating muonium-antimuonium oscillation process can proceed provided neutrinos have non-zero masses and mix among the various generations. Modifying the Standard Model only by the inclusion of singlet right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. E. Clark , S. T. Love

Recent work has proposed that the interaction between ordinary matter and a stochastic gravitational background can lead to the decoherence of large aggregates of ordinary matter. In this work we point out that these arguments can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-12 Douglas Singleton , Nader Inan , Raymond Y. Chiao

A new Majoron model is presented within the framework of the seesaw mechanism. Its Higgs sector consists of only doublet representations and the lepton-number violation takes place at the same scale of the electroweak symmetry breaking.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hisashi Kikuchi , Ernest Ma

We reconsider neutrino decay as an explanation for atmospheric neutrino observations. We show that if the mass-difference relevant to the two mixed states \nu_\mu and \nu_\tau is very small (< 10^{-4} eV^2), then a very good fit to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Barger , J. G. Learned , P. Lipari , M. Lusignoli , S. Pakvasa , T. J. Weiler

Scotogenic models constitute an appealing solution to the generation of neutrino masses and to the dark matter mystery. In this work we consider a version of the Scotogenic model that breaks lepton number spontaneously. At this scope, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-21 Valentina De Romeri , Jacopo Nava , Miguel Puerta , Avelino Vicente

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