Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-08-07
Rev.Mod.Phys.80:481-516,2008
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
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Scientific paper
10.1103/RevModPhys.80.481
The theoretical and experimental issues relevant to neutrinoless double-beta decay are reviewed. The impact that a direct observation of this exotic process would have on elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology is profound. Now that neutrinos are known to have mass and experiments are becoming more sensitive, even the non-observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay will be useful. If the process is actually observed, we will immediately learn much about the neutrino. The status and discovery potential of proposed experiments are reviewed in this context, with significant emphasis on proposals favored by recent panel reviews. The importance of and challenges in the calculation of nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay are considered in detail. The increasing sensitivity of experiments and improvements in nuclear theory make the future exciting for this field at the interface of nuclear and particle physics.
Avignone III Frank T.
Elliott Steven R.
Engel Jonathan
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