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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sudhanwa Patra, S. T. Petcov, Prativa Pritimita, Purushottam Sahu
Summary: We discuss a left-right (L-R) symmetric model with the double seesaw mechanism at the TeV scale generating Majorana masses for the active left-handed (LH) flavor neutrinos vaL and the heavy right-handed (RH) neutrinos NfiR; a; fi = e; mu; z, which in turn mediate lepton number violating processes, including neutrinoless double beta decay. The results show that the contributions to the 0vfff decay amplitude and half-life in this model are strongly enhanced and dominant at relatively small values of the lightest neutrino mass m1(3) similar to (10-4-10-2) eV over the light Majorana neutrino exchange contribution. The model's predictions for the 0vfff decay generalized effective Majorana mass and half-life are within the sensitivity range of the planned next generation of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Gang Li, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Juan Carlos Vasquez
Summary: The study indicates that LR mixing has a significant impact on the 0 nu beta beta decay rate, possibly dominating the decay process, with the long-range pion exchange contribution being more significant than the short-range contribution.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gang Li, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Juan Carlos Vasquez
Summary: In the context of the minimal left-right symmetric model, this study investigates the interplay between neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, long-lived particle searches at the LHC, and the proposed far detector MATHUSLA. It shows that searching for long-lived particles at the LHC can extend the reach of detecting heavy bosons and that the sensitivities of these searches are competitive with future decay searches.
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Takeshi Fukuyama, Toru Sato
Summary: The neutrinoless double beta decay is investigated in the left-right symmetric model, where the coexistence of left and right handed currents leads to complex interactions between the lepton and hadron sectors. The <lambda> mechanism and <eta> mechanism, in addition to the conventional effective neutrino mass mechanism, are studied in this study. The magnification of <eta> mechanism and the relative vanishing of <lambda> mechanism are analyzed, along with the importance of surveying 0 nu beta beta decay of different nuclei to determine new physics beyond the Standard Model.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Physics, Nuclear
Bichitra Bijay Boruah, Mrinal Kumar Das
Summary: In this work, we studied neutrinoless double beta decay and charged lepton flavor violation in a generic left-right symmetric model. We used a discrete flavor symmetry to realize the model and considered different contributions to the decay process. We also analyzed the relationship between charged lepton flavor violation and neutrino mass.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone III, A. S. Barabash, C. J. Barton, P. J. Barton, K. H. Bhimani, E. Blalock, B. Bos, M. Busch, M. Buuck, T. S. Caldwell, Y-d. Chan, C. D. Christofferson, P. -h. Chu, M. L. Clark, C. Cuesta, J. A. Detwiler, Yu. Efremenko, H. Ejiri, S. R. Elliott, G. K. Giovanetti, M. P. Green, J. Gruszko, I. S. Guinn, V. E. Guiseppe, C. R. Haufe, R. Henning, D. Hervas Aguilar, E. W. Hoppe, A. Hostiuc, M. F. Kidd, I. Kim, R. T. Kouzes, A. Li, A. M. Lopez, J. M. Lopez-Castano, E. L. Martin, R. D. Martin, R. Massarczyk, S. J. Meijer, S. Mertens, T. K. Oli, G. Othman, L. S. Paudel, W. Pettus, A. W. P. Poon, D. C. Radford, A. L. Reine, K. Rielage, N. W. Ruof, D. C. Schaper, D. Tedeschi, R. L. Varner, S. Vasilyev, J. F. Wilkerson, C. Wiseman, W. Xu, C. -h. Yu, B. X. Zhu
Summary: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR conducted a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 nu beta beta) in 76Ge using modular arrays of high-purity Ge detectors operated in vacuum cryostats within a low-background shield. The arrays consisted of up to 40.4 kg of detectors, with 27.2 kg enriched to approximately 88% in 76Ge. Through these measurements, the DEMONSTRATOR achieved an accumulated active exposure of 64.5 kg yr. By achieving a world-leading energy resolution of 2.52 keV FWHM at the 2039 keV Q beta beta (0.12%), we established a half-life limit for 0 nu beta beta in 76Ge at T1/2 > 8.3 x 1025 yr (90% C.L.). This result provides upper limits on m beta beta ranging from (113-269) meV (90% C.L.), depending on the choice of nuclear matrix elements.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Steven D. Biller
Summary: The combined bounds on the Majorana neutrino mass for light and heavy neutrino exchange mechanisms are derived from current neutrinoless double beta decay (0v beta beta) search results, showing stronger limits with less model-to-model variation. Projections indicate that future experiments can probe well into the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy region. Additionally, a method to visually represent experimental results is suggested for more transparent comparison across different isotopes and to track model dependencies.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
A. Belley, C. G. Payne, S. R. Stroberg, T. Miyagi, J. D. Holt
Summary: In this study, basis-space converged neutrinoless beta beta-decay nuclear matrix elements for the lightest candidates Ca-48, Ge-76, and Se-82 were calculated using ab initio methods. It was found that the tensor component is non-negligible in Ge-76 and Se-82, leading to nuclear matrix elements that are overall 25%-45% smaller than those obtained from the phenomenological shell model. While further developments are needed for a more accurate determination of final matrix elements with uncertainties, this work paves the way for a first-principles calculation of neutrinoless beta beta decay in all relevant nuclei for large-scale searches.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Srubabati Goswami, K. N. Vishnudath
Summary: In the context of the minimal left-right symmetric model, correlations among the three absolute neutrino mass observables were studied, with consideration given to two phenomenological cases and independent constraints from various sources. The study determined the combined allowed parameter space for future experiments and revealed constraints on heavy particle masses and neutrino mass observables. These constraints have the potential to rule out unexplored parameter space by collider experiments.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Manuel Ettengruber, Matteo Agostini, Allen Caldwell, Philipp Eller, Oliver Schulz
Summary: We evaluate the discovery probability of proposed neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments in a scenario with normal ordered neutrino masses. The probability strongly depends on the value of the lightest neutrino mass and can reach 80-90% for values just below the current constraints. The availability of data from different isotopes can partially compensate uncertainties in nuclear matrix element calculations.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jack Dunger, Edward J. Leming, Steven D. Biller
Summary: The potential of using slow-fluor liquid scintillators to study low energy solar neutrinos and neutrinoless double beta decay (0vfifi) is explored through simulations. The results indicate better directional reconstruction in large-scale detectors, allowing for improved identification of low energy solar neutrinos. Additionally, the studies suggest that a detector with even as little as -30% coverage using currently available photomultiplier tubes could measure the CNO solar neutrino flux with a precision of better than 10% and reject solar neutrino backgrounds with a potential factor of 10 for endpoint energies near 2.5 MeV.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jin-Lei Yang, Chao-Hsi Chang, Tai-Fu Feng
Summary: This paper studies the effects of nuclear neutrinoless double beta decays on the B-L supersymmetric standard model and TeV scale left-right symmetric model, and concludes that the left-right symmetric model has greater potential for future experimental observations.
COMMUNICATIONS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Yoritaka Iwata, Shahariar Sarkar
Summary: This study focuses on the lambda mechanism and light neutrino-exchange mechanism of neutrinoless double beta decay, with a particular emphasis on the calculation of nuclear matrix elements for Se-82. The interacting shell model framework is used, along with the closure approximation, to calculate these matrix elements. Inclusion of higher-order effects in some matrix elements results in larger Gamow-Teller matrix elements for the lambda mechanism, and bounds on Majorana neutrino mass and lepton number violating parameters are derived based on these calculations.
FRONTIERS IN ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
W. Dekens, L. Andreoli, J. de Vries, E. Mereghetti, F. Oosterhof
Summary: The study presents a global analysis of the low-energy phenomenology of the minimal left-right symmetric model (mLRSM) with parity symmetry, determining a lower bound on the mass of the right-handed W-R boson. In models where a Peccei-Quinn mechanism is present, a mass of M-WR greater than or similar to 5.5TeV at 95% C.L. is obtained, which can be improved with next-generation EDM experiments. However, in P-symmetric mLRSM without the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, a more stringent constraint of M-WR greater than or similar to 17TeV at 95% C.L. is found.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
W. H. Dai, H. Ma, Q. Yue, Z. She, K. J. Kang, Y. J. Li, M. Agartioglu, H. P. An, J. P. Chang, Y. H. Chen, J. P. Cheng, Z. Deng, C. H. Fang, X. P. Geng, H. Gong, Q. J. Guo, X. Y. Guo, L. He, S. M. He, J. W. Hu, H. X. Huang, T. C. Huang, H. T. Jia, X. Jiang, H. B. Li, J. M. Li, J. Li, Q. Y. Li, R. M. J. Li, X. Q. Li, Y. L. Li, Y. F. Liang, B. Liao, F. K. Lin, S. T. Lin, S. K. Liu, Y. D. Liu, Y. Liu, Y. Y. Liu, Z. Z. Liu, Y. C. Mao, Q. Y. Nie, J. H. Ning, H. Pan, N. C. Qi, J. Ren, X. C. Ruan, K. Saraswat, V Sharma, M. K. Singh, T. X. Sun, C. J. Tang, W. Y. Tang, Y. Tian, G. F. Wang, L. Wang, Q. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. X. Wang, H. T. Wong, S. Y. Wu, Y. C. Wu, H. Y. Xing, R. Xu, Y. Xu, T. Xue, Y. L. Yan, L. T. Yang, C. H. Yeh, N. Yi, C. X. Yu, H. J. Yu, J. F. Yue, M. Zeng, Z. Zeng, B. T. Zhang, F. S. Zhang, L. Zhang, Z. H. Zhang, Z. Y. Zhang, K. K. Zhao, M. G. Zhao, J. F. Zhou, Z. Y. Zhou, J. J. Zhu
Summary: A feasibility study of the next generation experiment for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge-76 was conducted using a natural broad energy germanium detector in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The study achieved a background index of 6.4 x 10(-3) counts/(keV kg day), which is 1.86 times lower than previous results. No signal was observed with an exposure of 186.4 kg day, leading to a limit on the half life of Ge-76 0 nu beta beta decay.
Article
Physics, Particles & Fields
P. S. Bhupal Dev, Clara Miralles Vila, Werner Rodejohann
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Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Pedro M. Martin-Sanchez, Christopher Gebhardt, Joerg Toepel, James Barry, Nina Munzke, Jens Guenster, Anna A. Gorbushina
INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION
(2018)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Julian Heeck, Werner Rodejohann
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anna Herman-Czezuch, Armelle Zemo Mekeng, Stefanie Meilinger, James Barry, Nicola Kimiaie
Summary: This study investigates the impact of atmospheric aerosols on photovoltaic power generation in West Africa and finds that the concentration and type of aerosols have different effects on the photovoltaic power. The results indicate that aerosol emissions caused by biomass burning can lead to a reduction in photovoltaic power, and there are differences in the reduction between the two technologies.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Moritz Koelbach, Oliver Hoehn, Kira Rehfeld, Manuel Finkbeiner, James Barry, Matthias M. May
Summary: The annual-hydrogen-yield-climatic-response (AHYCR) ratio is introduced as a figure of merit to evaluate the outdoor performance of integrated solar water splitting devices. This parameter helps to assess, compare, and optimize the climatic response of solar water splitting devices in different climate zones.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS
(2022)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Guo-yuan Huang, Sudip Jana, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Werner Rodejohann
Summary: The LHCb measurements indicate a deficit in the mu/e ratio in B -> Kll decays, supporting the hints of lepton universality violation observed in the R-K(*) ratio. Possible explanations include heavy Z' bosons or leptoquarks mediating b -> s mu(+)mu(-) processes. A muon collider can directly measure this process and shed light on the lepton nonuniversality scenario. Investigating different center-of-mass energies, it is shown that the parameter space for Z' and leptoquark solutions to the RK(*) anomalies can be mostly covered. Effective operators explaining the anomalies can be probed with a muon collider setup at a center-of-mass energy of 6 TeV and integrated luminosity of 4 ab(-1).
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Guo-yuan Huang, Werner Rodejohann
Summary: Solutions to the Hubble tension typically require additional radiation, constrained by big bang nucleosynthesis. The introduction of neutrino self-interactions can help alleviate this problem.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lukas Graf, Sudip Jana, Manfred Lindner, Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu
Summary: The study discusses a mechanism of neutrinoless double beta decay involving neutrinos of different flavors and effective flavor-violating scalar interactions; it also finds that the neutrino effective mass may no longer vanish within the normal mass ordering due to contributions from other flavors. The research evaluates necessary nuclear matrix elements, considers interference between the standard and new scalar diagrams, and analyzes a UV-complete model implementing the scalar interaction. Tests of the complete model are feasible at colliders and future neutrino experiments.
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Frank F. Deppisch, Lukas Graf, Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu
Proceedings Paper
Multidisciplinary Sciences
James Barry, Dirk Boettcher, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Anna Herman-Czezuch, Nicola Kimiaie, Stefanie Meilinger, Christopher Schirrmeister, Hartwig Deneke, Jonas Witthuhn, Felix Goedde
ADVANCES IN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
(2020)
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Guo-yuan Huang, Werner Rodejohann, Shun Zhou
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Farinaldo S. Queiroz, Werner Rodejohann, Carlos E. Yaguna
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Werner Rodejohann, Xun-Jie Xu
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Shao-Feng Ge, Werner Rodejohann, Kai Zuber
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gulab Bambhaniya, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Srubabati Goswami, Subrata Khan, Werner Rodejohann