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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

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

We have studied the constraints imposed by the results of neutrino oscillation experiments on the effective Majorana mass |<m>| that characterizes the contribution of Majorana neutrino masses to the matrix element of neutrinoless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti , C. W. Kim , M. Monteno

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

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 MSW or vacuum oscillation solution of the solar neutrino problem can be reconciled with possible existence of the $(\beta\beta)_{0\nu}$ decay with a half-life corresponding to an effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 S. T. Petcov , A. Yu. Smirnov

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay is important in determining the Majorana nature of the neutrino, and also in establishing if lepton number is violated. In this work, we combine the published data from five independent…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-05-01 Pawel Guzowski

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

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 certain patterns in the diagonal basis of charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Naoyuki Haba , Tomoharu Suzuki

We assume that neutrinoless double beta decay is caused by the exchange of three light Majorana neutrinos. Under this assumption, we obtain, by the method of perturbation, the equation representing the isocontour of effective Majorana mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-29 Shinji Maedan

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 determine the possible values of the effective Majorana neutrino mass $|< m > |= |\sum_j U_{ej}^2 m_j|$ in the different phenomenologically viable three and four-neutrino scenarios. The quantities $U_{\alpha j}$ ($\alpha =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. M. Bilenky , C. Giunti , W. Grimus , B. Kayser , S. T. Petcov

Neutrinoless double beta ($\znbb$) decay violates lepton number; its absence stringently constrains the parameters of theories beyond the standard model in which the neutrino has a Majorana mass. R-parity violating weak-scale supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Hirsch

A brief overview is given of theoretical analyses with neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Theoretical bounds on the ``observable'', <m>_betabeta, are presented. By using experimental bounds on <m>_betabeta, allowed regions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroaki Sugiyama

The recent neutrino oscillation experimental results indicate that at least one neutrino has a mass greater than 50 meV. The next generation of double-beta decay experiments will very likely have a sensitivity to an effective Majorana…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Steven R. Elliott

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

The Neutrinoless double beta Decay allows to determine the effectice Majorana electron neutrino mass. For this the following conditions have to be satisfied: (i) The neutrino must be a Majorana particle, i. e. identical to the antiparticle.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-19 Amand Faessler

We treat 0+ -> 2+ neutrinoless double beta decays taking into account recoil corrections to the nuclear currents. The decay probability can be written as a quadratic form of the effective coupling constants of the right-handed leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Tomoda

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is one of the most sensitive approaches to test particle physics beyond the standard model. During the last years, besides the most restrictive limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Päs

We perform a study of neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay mediated by the lightest neutralino of arbitrary mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) under the presence of R-parity violating trilinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Patrick D. Bolton , Frank F. Deppisch , P. S. Bhupal Dev