Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments

Neutrinoless double beta-decay (DBD) is of current interest in high-sensitivity frontiers of particle physics. The decay is very sensitive to Majorana neutrino masses, neutrino CP phases, right-handed weak interactions, and others, which are beyond the standard electroweak model. DBDs are actually u...

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Main Author: Hiroyasu Ejiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6666720
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description Neutrinoless double beta-decay (DBD) is of current interest in high-sensitivity frontiers of particle physics. The decay is very sensitive to Majorana neutrino masses, neutrino CP phases, right-handed weak interactions, and others, which are beyond the standard electroweak model. DBDs are actually ultrarare events, and thus, DBD experiments with ultrahigh sensitivity are required. Critical discussions are presented on nuclear and detector sensitivities for high-sensitivity DBD experiments to study the neutrino masses in the normal and inverted mass hierarchies.
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spelling doaj-art-5eb97d926cd04b79b0cf46d2d0f6aafa2025-08-20T02:05:10ZengWileyAdvances in High Energy Physics1687-73571687-73652021-01-01202110.1155/2021/66667206666720Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay ExperimentsHiroyasu Ejiri0Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, JapanNeutrinoless double beta-decay (DBD) is of current interest in high-sensitivity frontiers of particle physics. The decay is very sensitive to Majorana neutrino masses, neutrino CP phases, right-handed weak interactions, and others, which are beyond the standard electroweak model. DBDs are actually ultrarare events, and thus, DBD experiments with ultrahigh sensitivity are required. Critical discussions are presented on nuclear and detector sensitivities for high-sensitivity DBD experiments to study the neutrino masses in the normal and inverted mass hierarchies.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6666720
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Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
Advances in High Energy Physics
title Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
title_full Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
title_fullStr Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
title_full_unstemmed Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
title_short Nuclear and Detector Sensitivities for Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments
title_sort nuclear and detector sensitivities for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6666720
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