scholarly journals Neutrinoless double beta decay and lepton number violation at the LHC

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Helo ◽  
S. G. Kovalenko ◽  
M. Hirsch ◽  
H. Päs
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (09) ◽  
pp. 1469-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
GORAN SENJANOVIĆ

I argue that LHC may shed light on the nature of neutrino mass through the probe of the seesaw mechanism. The smoking gun signature is lepton number violation through the production of same sign lepton pairs, a collider analogy of the neutrinoless double beta decay. I discuss this in the context of left–right symmetric theories, which led originally to neutrino mass and the seesaw mechanism. A WR gauge boson with a mass in a few TeV region could easily dominate neutrinoless double beta decay, and its discovery at LHC would have spectacular signatures of parity restoration and lepton number violation. Moreover, LHC can measure the masses of the right-handed neutrinos and the right-handed leptonic mixing matrix, which could in turn be used to predict the rates for neutrinoless double decay and lepton flavor violating violating processes. The LR scale at the LHC energies offers great hope of observing these low energy processes in the present and upcoming experiments.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 2221-2228 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. V. KLAPDOR-KLEINGROTHAUS ◽  
ERNEST MA ◽  
UTPAL SARKAR

We consider all possible scalar bilinears, which couple to two fermions of the standard model. The various baryon and lepton number violating couplings allowed by these exotic scalars are studied. We then discuss which are constrained by limits on proton decay (to a lepton and a meson as well as to three leptons), neutron–antineutron oscillations, and neutrinoless double beta decay.


2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (A) ◽  
pp. 786-789
Author(s):  
Paolo Zavarise

The GERDA experiment is searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. An observation of the neutrinoless double beta decay will not only prove lepton number violation by two units, but also that the neutrino is its own anti-particle, thus of Majorana type. The status of the experiment will be presented.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (32) ◽  
pp. 2243-2254 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus ◽  
U. Sarkar

Observation of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) has established that there is lepton number violation in nature and the neutrino masses are Majorana in nature. It also gives the absolute mass of the neutrinos and discriminates between different models of neutrino masses. The allowed amount of lepton number violation puts severe constraints on some possible new physics beyond the standard model. The recent results from WMAP are consistent with the consequences of the neutrinoless double beta decay. They improve some of these constraints very marginally, which we shall summarize here. We mention the new physics which is not affected by WMAP, and which could make the limits from the neutrinoless double beta decay even consistent with much tighter future cosmological limits.


1985 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Tomoda ◽  
Amand Faessler ◽  
K.W. Schmid ◽  
F. Grümmer

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (17) ◽  
pp. 1530045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Harz ◽  
Wei-Chih Huang ◽  
Heinrich Päs

Neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton number violating collider processes and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) are intimately related. In particular, lepton number violating processes at low energies in combination with sphaleron transitions will typically erase any preexisting BAU. In this contribution, we briefly review the tight connection between neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton number violating processes at the LHC and constraints from successful baryogenesis. We argue that far-reaching conclusions can be drawn unless the baryon asymmetry is stabilized via some newly introduced mechanism.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (19) ◽  
pp. 1950102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheal S. Berger ◽  
Maria Dawid

Superheavy neutrinos can, via the seesaw model, provide a mechanism for lepton number violation. If they are combined with flavor violation as characterized by the Froggatt–Nielsen mechanism, then the phenomenology for the neutrinos in oscillation experiments, neutrinoless double beta decay, and other experiments can be described by a relatively few number of parameters. We describe the low-energy neutrino mass matrix and show that the results are consistent with currently available data.


Author(s):  
Mattia Beretta ◽  
Lorenzo Pagnanini

Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay is a top priority in particle and astroparticle physics, being the most sensitive test of lepton number violation and the only suitable process to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. In order to increase the experimental sensitivity for this particular search, ton-scale detectors operated at nearly zero-background conditions with a few keV energy resolution are required. In this scenario, cryogenic detectors have proven effective in addressing many of these issues simultaneously. After long technical developments, the CUORE experiment established the possibility to operate large scale detectors based on this technology. Parallel studies pointed out that scintillating cryogenic detectors represent a suitable upgrade for the CUORE design, directed towards higher sensitivities. In this work, we review the recent development of cryogenic detectors, starting from the status of the art and outlying the path toward next-generation experiments.


1998 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 224-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hirsch ◽  
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus ◽  
S.G. Kovalenko

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