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Prospects in double beta decay searches

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Neutrinos have recently provided us with the first tangible evidence of phenomena beyond the reach of our theory of the laws of particle physics, the remarkably predictive “Standard Model”. The positive observation of oscillations in atmospheric and in solar neutrinos gives new motivations for more sensitive searches. Unfortunately, the oscillation experiments can only provide data on the squared mass differences of the neutrino mass eigenstates, while the absolute scale can only be obtained from direct mass measurements, 3H end point measurements for example or, in the case of Majorana neutrinos, more sensitively by neutrinoless double beta decay. In fact, recently published constraints on the mixing angles of the neutrino mixing matrix make a strong case that if neutrinos are Majorana particles, there are many scenarios in which next-generation double beta decay experiments should be able to observe the phenomenon, trying to disentangle the mass scale of the neutrinos. The interest for next-generation double beta decay experiments is growing, for if the mass scale is below ∼ 0.2 eV, double beta decay may be the only hope for measuring it.

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Pirro, S. (2006). Prospects in double beta decay searches. In: Fülöp, Z., Gyürky, G., Somorjai, E. (eds) The 2nd International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32843-2_3

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