Phenomenology of neutrinoless double beta decay

Abstract

This paper reviews the current status and future outlook of neutrinoless double beta decay searches, which try to provide an answer to the fundamental question of whether neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles.

arXiv commentLectures given at Gran Sasso Summer Institute 2014 Hands-On Experimental Underground Physics at LNGS (GSSI14), September 2014

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