NEUTRINO-LESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
By W. Rodejohann. 2011
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We review the particle physics aspects of neutrino-less double beta decay. This process can be mediated by light massive Majorana neutrinos (standard interpretation) or by something else (non-standard interpretations). The physics potential of both interpretations is summarized and the consequences of future measurements or improved limits on the half-life of neutrino-less double beta decay are discussed. We try to cover all proposed alternative realizations of the decay, including light sterile neutrinos, supersymmetric or left-right symmetric theories, Majorons, and other exotic possibilities. Ways to distinguish the mechanisms from one another are discussed. Experimental and nuclear physics aspects are also briefly touched, alternative processes to double beta decay are discussed, and an extensive list of references is provided.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation
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- Value of the Axial-Vector Coupling Strength in β and ββ Decays: A Review (2017, methodology): “Accurate knowledge of the NMEs is required in order that the data will be optimally used to obtain information about the fundamental nature and mass of the neutrino [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].”
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- The Phenomenology of Right Handed Neutrinos (2013, background): “3 Neutrinoless double β-decay If neutrinos are Majorana particles, neutrinoless double-β decays (0νββ) are possible [57] (see [125, 126] for recent reviews).”
- Neutrino Mass Ordering from Oscillations and Beyond: 2018 Status and Future Prospects (2018, background): “…in Astronomy and Space Sciences | www.frontiersin.org 3 October 2018 | Volume 5 | Article 36 indirectly, from cosmological bounds on the sum of the neutrino masses, is neutrinoless double β decay (Rodejohann, 2011; Gomez-Cadenas et al., 2012; Vergados et al., 2012; Dell’Oro et al., 2016).”
- Lepton Number Violation: Seesaw Models and Their Collider Tests (2017, background): “For complementary reviews, we refer readers to Gluza [61], Barger et al. [62], Mohapatra and Smirnov [63], Rodejohann [64], Chen and Huang [65], Atre et al. [66], Deppisch et al. [67] and references therein.”
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