scholarly journals High Scale Type-II Seesaw, Dominant Double Beta Decay within Cosmological Bound and LFV Decays in SU(‎5)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Parida ◽  
Rajesh Satpathy
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Type I ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Inverted Hierarchy ◽  
Mass Generation ◽  
Neutrino Mass Generation ◽  
Physical Phenomena

Very recently novel implementation of type-II seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass has been proposed in SU(5) grand unified theory with a number of desirable new physical phenomena beyond the standard model. Introducing heavy right-handed neutrinos and extra fermion singlets, in this work we show how the type-I seesaw cancellation mechanism works in this SU(5) framework. Besides predicting verifiable LFV decays, we further show that the model predicts dominant double beta decay with normal hierarchy or inverted hierarchy of active light neutrino masses in concordance with cosmological bound. In addition a novel right-handed neutrino mass generation mechanism, independent of type-II seesaw predicted mass hierarchy, is suggested in this work.

scholarly journals Investigating two heavy neutral leptons neutrino seesaw mechanism at SHiP

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (08) ◽  
pp. 1950047
Author(s):  
Marco Chianese ◽  
Damiano F. G. Fiorillo ◽  
Gennaro Miele ◽  
Stefano Morisi
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Type I ◽  
Mass Generation ◽  
Seesaw Mechanism ◽  
Mixing Angle ◽  
Mechanism Model ◽  
Neutrino Mass Generation ◽  
Generation Mechanisms ◽  
The Masses

One of the main purposes of SHiP experiment is to shed light on neutrino mass generation mechanisms like the so-called seesaw. We consider a minimal type-I seesaw neutrino mass mechanism model with two heavy neutral leptons (right-handed or sterile neutrinos) with arbitrary masses. Extremely high active-sterile mixing angle requires a correlation between the phases of the Dirac neutrino couplings. Actual experimental limits on the half-life of neutrinoless double beta decay [Formula: see text]-rate on the active-sterile mixing angle are not significative in constraining the masses or the mixing measurable by SHiP.

scholarly journals GERDA and LEGEND: Probing the Neutrino Nature and Mass at 100 meV and beyond

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Carla Maria Cattadori ◽  
Francesco Salamida
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Energy Resolution ◽  
Average Energy ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Inverted Hierarchy ◽  
Sensitivity Experiment ◽  
Background Index

The Gerda (GERmanium Detector Array) project, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), was started in 2005, a few years after the claim of evidence for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of 76Ge to the ground state of 76Se: it is an ultra-rare process whose detection would directly establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino and provide a measurement of its mass and mass hierarchy. The aim of Gerda was to confirm or disprove the claim by an increased sensitivity experiment. After establishing the new technology of Ge detectors operated bare in liquid Argon and since 2011, Gerda efficiently collected data searching for 0νββ of 76Ge, first deploying the 76Ge-enriched detectors from two former experiments and later new detectors with enhanced signal-to-background rejection, produced from freshly 76Ge-enriched material. Since then, the Gerda setup has been upgraded twice, first in 2013–2015 and later in 2018. The period before 2013 is Phase I and that after 2015 is Phase II. Both the Gerda setup and the analysis tools evolved along the project lifetime, allowing to achieve the remarkable average energy resolution of ∼3.6 and ∼2.6 keV for Coaxial Germanium (Coax) detectors and for Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe), respectively, and the background index of 5.2−1.3+1.6 · 10−4 cts/(keV·kg·yr) in a 230 keV net range centered at Qββ. No evidence of the 0νββ decay at Qββ = 2039.1 keV has been found, hence the limit of 1.8·1026 yr on the half-life (T1/20ν) at 90% C.L. was set with the exposure of 127.2 kg·yr. The corresponding limit range for the effective Majorana neutrino mass mee has been set to 79–180 meV. The Gerda performances in terms of background index, energy resolution and exposure are the best achieved so far by 76Ge double beta decay experiments. In Phase II, Gerda succeeded in operating in a background free regime and set a world record. In 2017, the Legend Collaboration was born from the merging of the Gerda and Majorana Collaborations and resources with the aim to further improve the Gerda sensitivity. First, the Legend200 project, with a mass of up to 200 kg of 76Ge-enriched detectors, aims to further improve the background index down to <0.6 · 10−3 cts/(keV·kg·yr) to explore the Inverted Hierarchy region of the neutrino mass ordering, then the Legend1000 (1 ton of 76Ge-enriched) will probe the Normal Hierarchy. In this paper, we describe the Gerda experiment, its evolution, the data analysis flow, a selection of its results and technological achievements, and finally the design, features and challenges of Legend, the Gerda prosecutor.

scholarly journals Singlet Fermion Assisted Dominant Seesaw with Lepton Flavor and Number Violations and Leptogenesis

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Parida ◽  
Bidyut Prava Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Mass Generation ◽  
Lepton Flavor ◽  
Mass Matrices ◽  
Neutrino Mass Generation ◽  
High Degree

Embedding type I seesaw in GUTs, left-right gauge theories, or even in extensions of the SM requires large right-handed neutrino masses making the neutrino mass generation mechanism inaccessible for direct experimental tests. This has been circumvented by introducing additional textures or high degree of fine-tuning in the Dirac neutrino or right-handed neutrino mass matrices. In this work we review another new mechanism that renders type I seesaw vanishing but other seesaw mechanisms dominant. Such mechanisms include extended seesaw, type II, linear, or double seesaw. The linear seesaw, double seesaw, and extended seesaw are directly verifiable at TeV scale. New observable predictions for lepton flavor and lepton number violations by ongoing searches are noted. Type II embedding in SO(10) also predicts these phenomena in addition to new mechanism for leptogenesis and displaced vertices mediated by gauge singlet fermions.

scholarly journals NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY: AN EXTREME CHALLENGE

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (A) ◽  
pp. 790-792
Author(s):  
Fernando Ferroni
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ◽  
Mass Region ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Inverted Hierarchy

Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay is the only known way to possibly resolve the nature of neutrino mass. The chances to cover the mass region predicted by the inverted hierarchy require a step forward in detector capability. A possibility is to make use of scintillating bolometers. These devices shall have a great power in distinguishing signals from alfa particles from those induced by electrons. This feature might lead to an almost background-free experiment. Here the Lucifer concept will be introduced and the prospects related to this project will be discussed.

scholarly journals Lepton masses and mixings in a T′ flavored 3-3-1 model with type I and type II seesaw mechanisms

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950005 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. V. Vien ◽  
H. N. Long ◽  
A. E. Cárcamo Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Parameter ◽  
Majorana Neutrino ◽  
Type I ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Lepton Sector ◽  
Neutrino Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Majorana Neutrinos ◽  
Majorana Neutrino Mass

We propose a renormalizable T′ flavor model based on the [Formula: see text] gauge symmetry, consistent with the observed pattern of lepton masses and mixings. The small masses of the light active neutrinos are produced from an interplay of type I and type II seesaw mechanisms, which are induced by three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos and three [Formula: see text] scalar antisextets, respectively. Our model is only viable for the scenario of normal neutrino mass hierarchy, where the obtained physical observables of the lepton sector are highly consistent with the current neutrino oscillation experimental data. In addition, our model also predicts an effective Majorana neutrino mass parameter of [Formula: see text] eV, a Jarlskog invariant of the order of [Formula: see text] and a leptonic Dirac CP violating phase of [Formula: see text], which is inside the [Formula: see text] experimentally allowed range.

scholarly journals The Nature of Massive Neutrinos

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Petcov
Keyword(s):  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Type I ◽  
Neutrino Mixing ◽  
Mass Generation ◽  
Triplet Model ◽  
Majorana Neutrinos ◽  
Massive Neutrinos ◽  
Neutrino Mass Generation

The compelling experimental evidences for oscillations of solar, reactor, atmospheric, and accelerator neutrinos imply the existence of 3-neutrino mixing in the weak charged lepton current. The current data on the 3-neutrino mixing parameters are summarised and the phenomenology of 3-νmixing is reviewed. The properties of massive Majorana neutrinos and of their various possible couplings are discussed in detail. Two models of neutrino mass generation with massive Majorana neutrinos—the type I see-saw and the Higgs triplet model—are briefly reviewed. The problem of determining the nature, Dirac or Majorana, of massive neutrinos is considered. The predictions for the effective Majorana mass|〈m〉|in neutrinoless double-beta-((ββ)0ν-) decay in the case of 3-neutrino mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos are summarised. The physics potential of the experiments, searching for(ββ)0ν-decay for providing information on the type of the neutrino mass spectrum, on the absolute scale of neutrino masses, and on the Majorana CP-violation phases in the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix, is also briefly discussed. The opened questions and the main goals of future research in the field of neutrino physics are outlined.

scholarly journals Inverted neutrino mass hierarchy and mixing in the Zee-Babu model

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Vo Van Vien ◽  
Hoang Ngoc Long ◽  
Phan Ngoc Thu
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Effective Mass ◽  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

We show that the neutrino mass matrix of the Zee-Babu model isable to fit the recent data on neutrino masses and mixingwith non-zero $\theta_{13}$ in the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy. The results show that the Majorana  phases are equal to zero and the Dirac phase ($\de$) ispredicted to either $0$ or $\pi$, i. e, there is no CP violation in the Zee-Babu model at the two loop level. The effective mass governingneutrinoless double beta decay and the sum of neutrino masses areconsistent with the recent analysis.

scholarly journals On resolving the dark LMA solution at neutrino oscillation experiments

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhya Choubey ◽  
Dipyaman Pramanik
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Neutrino Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Mixing Angle ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
Combine Information ◽  
Oscillation Experiment

Abstract In presence of non standard interactions (NSI), the solar neutrino data is consistent with two solutions, one close to the standard LMA solution with sin2θ12 ≃ 0.31 and another with $$ {\sin}^2{\theta}_{12}^D\simeq 0.69\left(=1-{\sin}^2{\theta}_{12}\right) $$ sin 2 θ 12 D ≃ 0.69 = 1 − sin 2 θ 12 . The latter has been called the Dark LMA (DLMA) solution in the literature and essentially brings an octant degeneracy in the measurement of the mixing angle θ12. This θ12 octant degeneracy is hard to resolve via oscillations because of the existence of the so-called “generalised mass hierarchy degeneracy” of the neutrino mass matrix in presence of NSI. One might think that if the mass hierarchy is independently determined in a non-oscillation experiment such as neutrino-less double beta decay, one might be able to break the θ12 octant degeneracy. In this paper we study this in detail in the context of long-baseline experiments (Pμμ channel) as well as reactor experiments (Pee channel) and show that if we combine information from both long-baseline and reactor experiments we can find the correct octant and hence value of θ12. We elaborate the reasons for it and study the prospects of determining the θ12 octant using T2HK, DUNE and JUNO experiments. Of course, one would need information on the neutrino mass hierarchy as well.

scholarly journals TO BE OR NOT TO BE? — FIRST EVIDENCE FOR NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAY

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 4113-4128 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
H. V. KLAPDOR-KLEINGROTHAUS
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Mass Matrix ◽  
Double Beta Decay ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Lepton Number Violation ◽  
Majorana Particle ◽  
The Universe

Double beta decay is indispensable to solve the question of the neutrino mass matrix together with ν oscillation experiments. Recent analysis of the most sensitive experiment since nine years - the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment in Gran-Sasso - yields a first indication for the neutrinoless decay mode. This result is the first evidence for lepton number violation and proves the neutrino to be a Majorana particle. We give the present status of the analysis in this report. It excludes several of the neutrino mass scenarios allowed from present neutrino oscillation experiments - only degenerate scenarios and those with inverse mass hierarchy survive. This result allows neutrinos to still play an important role as dark matter in the Universe. To improve the accuracy of the present result, considerably enlarged experiments are required, such as GENIUS. A GENIUS Test Facility has been funded and will come into operation by early 2003.

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