Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay

Abstract The ν M SM is defined as the SM extended to include dimension-5 operators. In this model neutrino masses violate lepton number, and two parameters of the lepton mixing matrix, the Majorana phases, are yet to be constrained. One combination of these phases and the neutrino masses, often deno...

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Main Authors: Avital Dery, Stefania Gori, Yuval Grossman, Zoltan Ligeti
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Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-10-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)100
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author Avital Dery
Stefania Gori
Yuval Grossman
Zoltan Ligeti
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description Abstract The ν M SM is defined as the SM extended to include dimension-5 operators. In this model neutrino masses violate lepton number, and two parameters of the lepton mixing matrix, the Majorana phases, are yet to be constrained. One combination of these phases and the neutrino masses, often denoted by m ee , is probed by neutrinoless double beta decays (0νββ). We explore what information may be obtained beyond 0νββ, and how it depends on the lightest neutrino mass. We point out that with current central values of the mixing parameters, ∆L e = 2 and ∆L e = ∆L μ = 1 (or ∆L e = 2 and ∆L μ = 2) processes cannot simultaneously vanish, providing a no-lose theorem, in principle, for excluding the ν M SM, even in the case of normal mass ordering.
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spelling doaj-art-f51f165079e749ad87496a4f3ad6ebc52024-12-08T12:13:27ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-10-0120241011610.1007/JHEP10(2024)100Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decayAvital Dery0Stefania Gori1Yuval Grossman2Zoltan Ligeti3Department of Physics, LEPP, Cornell UniversityDepartment of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa CruzDepartment of Physics, LEPP, Cornell UniversityErnest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of CaliforniaAbstract The ν M SM is defined as the SM extended to include dimension-5 operators. In this model neutrino masses violate lepton number, and two parameters of the lepton mixing matrix, the Majorana phases, are yet to be constrained. One combination of these phases and the neutrino masses, often denoted by m ee , is probed by neutrinoless double beta decays (0νββ). We explore what information may be obtained beyond 0νββ, and how it depends on the lightest neutrino mass. We point out that with current central values of the mixing parameters, ∆L e = 2 and ∆L e = ∆L μ = 1 (or ∆L e = 2 and ∆L μ = 2) processes cannot simultaneously vanish, providing a no-lose theorem, in principle, for excluding the ν M SM, even in the case of normal mass ordering.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)100Baryon/Lepton Number ViolationNeutrino InteractionsNeutrino Mixing
spellingShingle Avital Dery
Stefania Gori
Yuval Grossman
Zoltan Ligeti
Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
Journal of High Energy Physics
Baryon/Lepton Number Violation
Neutrino Interactions
Neutrino Mixing
title Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
title_full Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
title_fullStr Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
title_full_unstemmed Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
title_short Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
title_sort majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay
topic Baryon/Lepton Number Violation
Neutrino Interactions
Neutrino Mixing
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)100
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