New Leading Contribution to Neutrinoless Double- β Decay

Cirigliano, Vincenzo; Dekens, Wouter; de Vries, Jordy; Graesser, Michael L.; Mereghetti, Emanuele; Pastore, Saori; van Kolck, Ubirajara

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.202001

Title: New Leading Contribution to Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

Journal Article · Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.202001· OSTI ID:1437329

Cirigliano, Vincenzo; Dekens, Wouter; de Vries, Jordy; Graesser, Michael L.; Mereghetti, Emanuele; Pastore, Saori; van Kolck, Ubirajara

Within the framework of chiral effective field theory, we discuss the leading contributions to the neutrinoless double-beta decay transition operator induced by light Majorana neutrinos. Based on renormalization arguments in both dimensional regularization with minimal subtraction and a coordinate-space cutoff scheme, we show the need to introduce a leading-order short-range operator, missing in all current calculations. We discuss strategies to determine the finite part of the short-range coupling by matching to lattice QCD or by relating it via chiral symmetry to isospin-breaking observables in the two-nucleon sector. Lastly, we speculate on the impact of this new contribution on nuclear matrix elements of relevance to experiment.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-04ER41338; AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1437329

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1480024

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-21404; PRLTAO; 202001

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 120 Journal Issue: 20; ISSN 0031-9007

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