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Title: Heavy Physics Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay from QCD

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany)
  3. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  5. Univ. of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
  6. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako (Japan)
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). RIKEN Research Center
  8. NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
  9. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  11. City College of New York, NY (United States); City Univ. (CUNY), NY (United States)
  12. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  13. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Observation of neutrinoless double beta decay, a lepton number violating process that has been proposed to clarify the nature of neutrino masses, has spawned an enormous world-wide experimental effort. Relating nuclear decay rates to high-energy, beyond the standard model (BSM) physics requires detailed knowledge of nonperturbative QCD effects. Using lattice QCD, we compute the necessary matrix elements of short-range operators, which arise due to heavy BSM mediators, that contribute to this decay via the leading order π^{-}→π^{+} exchange diagrams. Utilizing our result and taking advantage of effective field theory methods will allow for model-independent calculations of the relevant two-nucleon decay, which may then be used as input for nuclear many-body calculations of the relevant experimental decays. Contributions from short-range operators may prove to be equally important to, or even more important than, those from long-range Majorana neutrino exchange.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA (United States); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344; SC0012704; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231; PHY-1748958; NSF PHY15-15738; NSF PHY-1748958
OSTI ID:
1481057
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1476295; OSTI ID: 1481366; OSTI ID: 1563963
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-751220; RBRC-1266; BNL-209118-2018-JAAM; JLAB-CIO-18-2751; DOE/OR/23177-4476; arXiv:1805.02634; PRLTAO; 936212
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, Issue 17; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 39 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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