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Title: An electroweak basis for neutrinoless double β decay

Abstract

Here, a discovery of neutrinoless double-β decay would be profound, providing the first direct experimental evidence of ΔL = 2 lepton number violating processes. While a natural explanation is provided by an effective Majorana neutrino mass, other new physics interpretations should be carefully evaluated. At low-energies such new physics could man-ifest itself in the form of color and SU(2)L × U(1)Y invariant higher dimension operators. Here we determine a complete set of electroweak invariant dimension-9 operators, and our analysis supersedes those that only impose U(1)em invariance. Imposing electroweak invariance implies: 1) a significantly reduced set of leading order operators compared to only imposing U(1)em invariance; and 2) other collider signatures. Prior to imposing electroweak invariance we find a minimal basis of 24 dimension-9 operators, which is reduced to 11 electroweak invariant operators at leading order in the expansion in the Higgs vacuum expectation value. We set up a systematic analysis of the hadronic realization of the 4-quark operators using chiral perturbation theory, and apply it to determine which of these operators have long-distance pion enhancements at leading order in the chiral expansion. We also find at dimension-11 and dimension-13 the electroweak invariant operators that after electroweak symmetry breaking produce themore » remaining ΔL = 2 operators that would appear at dimension-9 if only U(1)em is imposed.« less

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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1398909
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-23550
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Chiral Lagrangians

Citation Formats

Graesser, Michael L. An electroweak basis for neutrinoless double β decay. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2017)099.
Graesser, Michael L. An electroweak basis for neutrinoless double β decay. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)099
Graesser, Michael L. Wed . "An electroweak basis for neutrinoless double β decay". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)099. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1398909.
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journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 8,
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year = {Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
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