Neutrinoless double beta decay and neutrino mass
arXiv:1612.02924 · doi:10.1142/S0218301316300071
Abstract
The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay will have important consequences. First it will signal that lepton number is not conserved and the neutrinos are Majorana particles. Second, it represents our best hope for determining the absolute neutrino mass scale at the level of a few tens of meV. To achieve the last goal, however, certain hurdles have to be overcome involving particle, nuclear and experimental physics. Particle physics is important since it provides the mechanisms for neutrinoless double beta decay. In this review we emphasize the light neutrino mass mechanism. Nuclear physics is important for extracting the useful information from the data. One must accurately evaluate the relevant nuclear matrix elements, a formidable task. To this end, we review the recently developed sophisticated nuclear structure approaches, employing different methods and techniques of calculation. We also examine the question of quenching of the axial vector coupling constant, which may have important consequences on the size of the nuclear matrix elements. From an experimental point of view it is challenging, since the life times are extremely long and one has to fight against formidable backgrounds. One needs large isotopically enriched sources and detectors with good energy resolution and very low background.
arXiv commentReview Article 63 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables
References in corpus (158)
- Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
- Cosmological parameters from CMB and other data: a Monte-Carlo approach
- First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance
- Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
- Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment
- Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion
- Discrete Flavor Symmetries and Models of Neutrino Mixing
- Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly-alpha forest and galaxy bias: constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy
- Double Beta Decay, Majorana Neutrinos, and Neutrino Mass
- The MSM, Dark Matter and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
- Search for Majorana Neutrinos near the Inverted Mass Hierarchy Region with KamLAND-Zen
- The MSM, Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses
- The Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos
- Phenomenology with Massive Neutrinos
- Softly Broken A_4 Symmetry for Nearly Degenerate Neutrino Masses
- Three-flavour neutrino oscillation update
- Electron Energy Spectra, Fluxes, and Day-Night Asymmetries of B Solar Neutrinos from the 391-Day Salt Phase SNO Data Set
- Theory of neutrinoless double beta decay
- Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I
- Phase space factors for double- decay
- Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay and Particle Physics
- Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with enriched 76Ge in Gran Sasso 1990-2003
- Theory of Neutrinos: A White Paper
- The In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group: A Novel Ab Initio Method for Nuclei
- Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper
- Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data
- Status of three-neutrino oscillation parameters, circa 2013
- Disassembling the Nuclear Matrix Elements of the Neutrinoless double beta Decay
- Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Xe with EXO-200
- Neutrinoless double beta decay: 2015 review
- Energy density functional study of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless decay
- Anatomy of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay
- Low energy effects of neutrino masses
- The Igex 76ge Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment: Prospects for Next Generation Experiments
- and nuclear matrix elements in the interacting boson model with isospin restoration
- Additional Nucleon Current Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Nuclear matrix elements for double-β decay
- Double Beta Decay
- and nuclear matrix elements, QRPA, and isospin symmetry restoration
- Neutrino mass limit from tritium beta decay
- Erratum: Assessment of uncertainties in QRPA -decay nuclear matrix elements [Nucl. Phys. A 766, 107 (2006)]
- Left-Right Symmetry: from LHC to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Neutrino masses and mixings: Status of known and unknown parameters
- 130Te Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with CUORICINO
- First results of the search of neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEMO 3 detector
- Probing New Physics Models of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with SuperNEMO
- Neutrinoless double beta decay from a modern perspective
- Chiral two-body currents in nuclei: Gamow-Teller transitions and neutrinoless double-beta decay
- On the uncertainty in the decay nuclear matrix elements
- Measurement of the double-βdecay half-life of ^{136}Xe with the KamLAND-Zen experiment
- Shell Model Study of the Double Beta Decays of Ge, Se and Xe
- Unified ab initio approaches to nuclear structure and reactions
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Heavy Sterile Neutrinos
- Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Te with CUORE-0
- Spectroscopy of Double-Beta and Inverse-Beta Decays from 100Mo for Neutrinos
- Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200
- Global Analyses of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
- Upper Bound of 0.28 eV on the Neutrino Masses from the Largest Photometric Redshift Survey
- Large-Scale Calculations of the Double-Beta Decay of 76Ge, 130Te, 136Xe, and 150Nd in the Deformed Self-Consistent Skyrme Quasiparticle Random-Phase Approximation
- Lepton number and flavour violation in TeV-scale left-right symmetric theories with large left-right mixing
- Cosmological and Astrophysical Neutrino Mass Measurements
- Average and recommended half-life values for two neutrino double beta decay
- Systematic study of nuclear matrix elements in neutrinoless double-beta decay with a beyond mean-field covariant density functional theory
- Improved short-range correlations and 0nbb nuclear matrix elements of 76Ge and 82Se
- The Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale, Neutrino Mass Spectrum, Majorana CP-Violation and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay
- Nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay with improved short-range correlations
- Heavy-ion double charge exchange reactions: a tool towards 0v\b{eta}\b{eta} nuclear matrix elements
- Nuclear Structure Relevant to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: 76Ge and 76Se
- Neutrino mass spectrum and neutrinoless double beta decay
- Short-range correlations and neutrinoless double beta decay
- Shell Model description of the beta beta decay of 136Xe
- Neutrino-less Double Electron Capture - a tool to research for Majorana neutrinos
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Ground and excited states of doubly open-shell nuclei from ab initio valence-space Hamiltonians
- Shell model predictions for Sn double-beta decay
- Penning traps as a versatile tool for precise experiments in fundamental physics
- Dominance of Pion-exchange in R-parity Violating Supersymmetry Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Masses of 130Te, 130Xe and double-beta-decay Q-value of 130Te
- Are small neutrino masses unveiling the missing mass problem of the Universe?
- Sterile neutrinos in lepton number and lepton flavor violating decays
- Uncertainties in nuclear transition matrix elements for neutrinoless decay within the PHFB model
- Nuclear Structure Relevant to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: the Valence Protons in 76Ge and 76Se
- Nuclear Structure based on Correlated Realistic Nucleon-Nucleon Potentials
- Towards a complete SUSY GUT
- The Pauli principle, QRPA and the two-neutrino double beta decay
- Sterile neutrinos in neutrinoless double beta decay
- NEXT-100 Technical Design Report (TDR). Executive Summary
- A New Limit on the Neutrinoless DBD of 130Te
- Arbitrary mass Majorana neutrinos in neutrinoless double beta decay
- A full parametrization of the 6 X 6 flavor mixing matrix in the presence of three light or heavy sterile neutrinos
- Resonance enhancement of neutrinoless double electron capture
- Shell model studies of the neutrinoless double-beta decay
- Double-beta decay Q values of 130Te, 128Te, and 120Te
- TeV Scale Left-Right Symmetry and Large Mixing Effects in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Results on decay with emission of two neutrinos or Majorons in Ge from GERDA Phase I
- On the SUSY Accompanied Neutrino Exchange Mechanism of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Measurement of the double-beta decay half-life and search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of with the NEMO-3 detector
- Mixing angle and phase correlations from A5 with generalised CP and their prospects for discovery
- Limits on different Majoron decay modes of Mo and Se for neutrinoless double beta decays in the NEMO-3 experiment
- Generalised CP and Family Symmetry in Semi-Direct Models of Leptons
- Bilinear R-parity Violation in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Multiple CP Non-conserving Mechanisms of $\betabeta$-Decay and Nuclei with Largely Different Nuclear Matrix Elements
- The light neutrino exchange mechanism of the -decay with left- and right-handed leptonic and hadronic currents revisited
- Measurement of the 2 decay half-life of Nd and a search for 0 decay processes with the full exposure from the NEMO-3 detector
- Overconstrained estimates of neutrinoless double beta decay within the QRPA
- The Nd(He,) and Sm(,He) reactions with applications to decay of Nd
- Search for EC and ECEC processes in Se
- Neutrinoless decay transition matrix elements within mechanisms involving light Majorana neutrinos, classical Majorons and sterile neutrinos
- Search for EC and ECEC processes in Sn and decay of Sn to the excited states of Te
- Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Mo with the NEMO-3 Detector
- Uncovering Multiple CP-Nonconserving Mechanisms of $\betabeta$-Decay
- Non-collapsing renormalized QRPA with proton-neutron pairing for neutrinoless double beta decay
- Combining Planck with Large Scale Structure gives strong neutrino mass constraint
- Quasiparticle random phase approximation uncertainties and their correlations in the analysis of neutrinoless double beta decay
- Enriched ZnMoO scintillating bolometers to search for decay of Mo with the LUMINEU experiment
- Neutrinoless double- decay of Se in the shell model: beyond closure approximation
- Search for Majoron-emitting modes of double-beta decay of Xe with EXO-200
- Search for decay of Cd with enriched CdWO crystal scintillator in coincidence with four HPGe detectors
- Constraining the 0ν2β matrix elements by nuclear structure observables
- Neutrino mixing with non-zero and CP violation in the 3-3-1 model based on flavor symmetry
- Neutrino constraints: what large-scale structure and CMB data are telling us?
- Lepton Number Violating Processes Mediated by Majorana Neutrinos at Hadron Colliders
- Operator evolution for ab initio nuclear theory
- Shell-model calculation of neutrinoless double- decay of Ge
- Statistical analysis of beta decays and the effective value of g_A in the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation framework
- The charged current neutrino cross section for solar neutrinos, and background to \BBz\ experiments
- Results of a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay using the COBRA demonstrator
- Neutrino Mixing with Non-Zero and CP Violation in the 3-3-1 Model Based on Flavor Symmetry
- Double beta decay and neutrino mass models
- First search for double decay of dysprosium
- Grand unified theory constrained supersymmetry and neutrinoless double beta decay
- Change of nuclear configurations in the neutrinoless double- decay of Te Xe and Xe Ba
- The contribution of light Majorana neutrinos to neutrinoless double beta decay and cosmology
- Probing the nuclide 180W for neutrinoless double-electron capture exploration
- Partial restoration of isospin symmetry for neutrinoless double beta decay in the deformed nuclear system of Nd
- SMMC method for two-neutrino double beta decay
- Lepton Number Violation within the Conformal Inverse Seesaw
- First search for double beta decay of platinum by ultra-low background HP Ge gamma spectrometry
- Degeneracies of particle and nuclear physics uncertainties in neutrinoless double beta decay
- Uncertainties in nuclear transition matrix elements for neutrinoless decay II: the heavy Majorana neutrino mass mechanism
- Adjoint GUT model with flavor symmetry
- Nuclear matrix element for two neutrino double beta decay from 136Xe
- The generation: present and future constraints on neutrino masses from cosmology and laboratory experiments
- Search for double beta decay of Cd with enriched CdWO crystal scintillators (Aurora experiment)
- Transition magnetic moments of Majorana neutrinos in supersymmetry without R-parity in light of neutrino oscillations
- Spin dipole nuclear matrix elements for double beta decay nuclei by charge-exchange reactions
- Realistic shell model calculation of nuclear matrix elements and role of shell structure in intermediate states
- Neutron pair correlations in A=100 nuclei involved in neutrinoless double- decay
- Multi-layer scintillation detector for the MOON double beta decay experiment: Scintillation photon responses studied by a prototype detector MOON-1
- Neutrino nuclear response and photo nuclear reaction
- Transition Operators Entering Neutrinoles Double Electron Capture to Excited Nuclear States
- Solar neutrino interactions with liquid scintillators used for double beta decay experiments
- Two decay paths for calculation of nuclear matrix element of neutrinoless double-beta decay using quasiparticle random-phase approximation
- SU(5)-inspired double beta decay
- Testing the minimal model of neutrinos with the Dirac and Majorana phases
- The Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with the NEXT experiment
- Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
- Reduction of -- The scalar potential
Cited by in corpus (106)
- 2020 Global reassessment of the neutrino oscillation picture
- Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: Status and Prospects
- Global constraints on absolute neutrino masses and their ordering
- Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge from GERDA Phase II
- Value of the axial-vector coupling strength in and decays: A review
- Current unknowns in the three neutrino framework
- Neutrino Mass Ordering from Oscillations and Beyond: 2018 Status and Future Prospects
- Development of Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search
- First Results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
- A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge with 26 kg-yr of Exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
- The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects
- Final Result of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay in Ge
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
- Final results of the Aurora experiment to study 2 decay of Cd with enriched CdWO crystal scintillators
- Impact of the quenching of on the sensitivity of experiments
- Predictions for the neutrino parameters in the minimal gauged U(1) model
- An optimal nonlinear method for simulating relic neutrinos
- Neutrinoless Double-Electron Capture
- Short-Range Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Mechanisms
- Changing the prior: absolute neutrino mass constraints in nonlocal gravity
- Tau Neutrinos in the Next Decade: from GeV to EeV
- Leptogenesis from Low Energy Violation
- CP Violation in the Lepton Sector and Implications for Leptogenesis
- Low background techniques in bolometers for double-beta decay search
- Study of one-proton transfer reaction for the O + Ti system at 275 MeV
- Constraining the invisible neutrino decay with KM3NeT-ORCA
- Muon capture reaction on to study nuclear responses for double beta decays and astro-neutrinos
- First scintillating bolometer tests of a CLYMENE R&D on LiMoO scintillators towards a large-scale double-beta decay experiment
- The eV Frontier in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Breakings of the neutrino mu-tau reflection symmetry
- Complete event-by-event / separation in a full-size TeO CUORE bolometer by Neganov-Luke-magnified light detection
- The -decay CROSS experiment: preliminary results and prospects
- Combining texture zeros with a remnant CP symmetry in the minimal type-I seesaw
- Neutrino mu-tau reflection symmetry and its breaking in the minimal seesaw
- AMoRE: A search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 100Mo using low-temperature molybdenum-containing crystal detectors
- Neutrino Mixing and Leptonic CP Violation from Flavour and Generalised CP Symmetries
- Mo-enriched LiMoO scintillating bolometers for decay search: from LUMINEU to CUPID-0/Mo projects
- Neutrino meets ultralight dark matter: decay and cosmology
- Large- analysis of two-nucleon neutrinoless double beta decay and charge-independence-breaking contact terms
- Radioactive contamination of scintillators
- The effective neutrino mass of neutrinoless double-beta decays: how possible to fall into a well
- Main features of detectors and isotopes to investigate double beta decay with increased sensitivity
- Search for double beta decay of Cd with an enriched CdWO crystal scintillator in coincidence with CdWO scintillation counters
- A combination of the neutrino trimaximal mixings and mu-tau reflection symmetry in the type-I seesaw model
- A multi-isotope bolometric experiment
- Radiopure tungstate and molybdate crystal scintillators for double beta decay experiments
- Benchmarking Xe Neutrinoless Decay Matrix Element Calculations with the Reaction
- A Survey of Neutrino Flavor Models and the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Funnel
- Type-I Seesaw with eV-Scale Neutrinos
- Probing the Mechanism of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Multiple Isotopes
- One-neutron transfer reaction in the O + Ti collision at 275 MeV
- Leptogenesis from the Asymmetric Texture
- Neutrino Masses and Mixing in Models with Large Extra Dimensions and Localized Fermions
- Phonon-mediated crystal detectors with metallic film coating capable of rejecting and events induced by surface radioactivity
- Tribimaximal Mixing in the Texture
- The interpolating formula for the -decay half-life in the case of light and heavy neutrino mass mechanisms
- Growth and characterization of a Li2Mg2(MoO4)3 scintillating bolometer
- Polarized EMC Effect in the QMC Model
- FSQP nuclear matrix elements for two neutrino double beta decays
- New limits on , and decay of Ce and Ce with deeply purified cerium sample
- First search for 2 and processes in Yb
- Impact of RGE-induced Reflection Symmetry Breaking on the Effective Majorana Neutrino Mass in Decay
- A first test of CUPID prototypal light detectors with NTD-Ge sensors in a pulse-tube cryostat
- First search for and decay of Er and new limit on decay of Er to the first excited level of Yb
- Double beta decay of Nd to the first excited level of Sm: preliminary results
- Charge Trapping and Energy Performance of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
- Twelve-crystal prototype of LiMoO scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments
- Two-neutrino double-beta decay matrix elements based on relativistic nuclear energy density functional
- Neutrinoless double beta decay in the minimal type-I seesaw model: How the enhancement or cancellation happens?
- Neutrino phenomenology in the flavored NMSSM without domain wall problems
- First search for and decay of Hf
- The mechanism of the -decay
- Improved limits on EC and ECEC processes in Se
- First direct search for and decay of Sm and decay of Sm
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from Lattice QCD: The Short-Distance Amplitude
- Axial-vector weak coupling at medium momentum for astro neutrinos and double beta decays
- Constraining the Effective Mass of Majorana Neutrino with Sterile Neutrino Mass for Inverted Ordering Spectrum
- Constrained Neutrino Mass Matrix and Majorana Phases
- Bound-state double- decay
- Radiative and exchange corrections for two-neutrino double-beta decay
- New experimental limits on double-beta decay of osmium
- Investigation of 2 Decay of Cd with the Help of Enriched CdWO Crystal Scintillators
- Further study on the textures of neutrino mass matrix for maximal atmospherical mixing angle and Dirac CP phase
- First demonstration of a TES based cryogenic LiMoOdetector for neutrinoless double beta decay search
- Probability Densities of the effective neutrino masses and
- Zooming in on eV-MeV Scale Sterile Neutrinos in light of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
- Purely flavored leptogenesis from a sudden mass gain of right-handed neutrinos
- Determining the Neutrino Mass Eigenstates and the effective Majorana Mass
- Leptogenesis in an extended seesaw model with symmetry
- Inference of neutrino nature and Majorana CP phases from decays with inverted mass ordering
- Hybrid seesaw neutrino model in SUSY
- Lambda beta-decay in-medium
- Effect of Spin-Dependent Short-Range Correlations on Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of Ca
- Nuclear matrix elements calculation for decay of Sn using nonclosure approach in nuclear shell model
- A split seesaw model with hidden neutrinoless double beta decay but successful leptogenesis
- New limit for the half-life of double beta decay of Zr to the first excited state of Mo
- A CUPID LiMoO scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility
- Renormalization group running triggered tri-resonant leptogenesis within neutrino flavor-symmetry models
- A Semi-Empirical Formula for Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay
- Neutrinos: Majorana or Dirac?
- Search for triple and quadruple beta decay of Nd
- The Nature of the Neutrino (Dirac/Majorana) and Double Beta Decay with or without Neutrinos
- exchange contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay
- The study of decay of Xe using nonclosure approach in nuclear shell model
- Neutrino Masses from the Point of View of Economy and Simplicity
- Little group generators for Dirac neutrino one-particle states