Searching for New Physics in Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21670%2F20%3A00356392" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21670/20:00356392 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.171801" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.171801</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.171801" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.171801</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Searching for New Physics in Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Motivated by nonzero neutrino masses and the possibility of new physics discovery, a number of experiments search for neutrinoless double beta decay. While hunting for this hypothetical nuclear process, a significant amount of two-neutrino double beta decay data have become available. Although these events are regarded and studied mostly as the background of neutrinoless double beta decay, they can also be used to probe physics beyond the standard model. In this Letter, we show how the presence of right-handed leptonic currents would affect the energy distribution and angular correlation of the outgoing electrons in two-neutrino double beta decay. Consequently, we estimate constraints imposed by currently available data on the existence of right-handed neutrino interactions without having to assume their nature. In this way, our results complement the bounds coming from the nonobservation of neutrinoless double beta decay as they limit also the exotic interactions of Dirac neutrinos. We perform a detailed calculation of two-neutrino double beta decay under the presence of exotic (axial-) vector currents, and we demonstrate that current experimental searches can be competitive to existing limits.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Searching for New Physics in Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

Popis výsledku anglicky

Motivated by nonzero neutrino masses and the possibility of new physics discovery, a number of experiments search for neutrinoless double beta decay. While hunting for this hypothetical nuclear process, a significant amount of two-neutrino double beta decay data have become available. Although these events are regarded and studied mostly as the background of neutrinoless double beta decay, they can also be used to probe physics beyond the standard model. In this Letter, we show how the presence of right-handed leptonic currents would affect the energy distribution and angular correlation of the outgoing electrons in two-neutrino double beta decay. Consequently, we estimate constraints imposed by currently available data on the existence of right-handed neutrino interactions without having to assume their nature. In this way, our results complement the bounds coming from the nonobservation of neutrinoless double beta decay as they limit also the exotic interactions of Dirac neutrinos. We perform a detailed calculation of two-neutrino double beta decay under the presence of exotic (axial-) vector currents, and we demonstrate that current experimental searches can be competitive to existing limits.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10304 - Nuclear physics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000766" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000766: Inženýrské aplikace fyziky mikrosvěta</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Physical Review Letters

ISSN

0031-9007

e-ISSN

1079-7114

Svazek periodika

125

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

17

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

1-6

Kód UT WoS článku

000579343200003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85093950637