The SNO Solar Neutrino Data, Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay and Neutrino Mass Spectrum

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2002-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205022v3

Phys.Lett. B544 (2002) 239-250

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, Latex; 12 pages of text, 3 ps-figures; results and conclusions unchanged, comments added on the stability of our res

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02510-8

Assuming 3 neutrino mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos, we analyze the implications of the results of the solar neutrino experiments, including the latest SNO data, which favor the LMA MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem with \tan^2 \theta_sol < 1, for the predictions of the effective Majorana mass || in neutrinoless double beta decay. For \cos (2 \theta_sol) \geq 0.26, which follows from the analysis of the new solar neutrino data, we find significant lower limits on || in the cases of quasi-degenerate and inverted hierarchy neutrino mass spectrum, || \geq 0.035 eV and || \geq 8.5 10^-3 eV, respectively. If the spectrum is hierarchical the upper limit holds || \leq 8.2 10^-3 eV. Correspondingly, not only a measured value of || \neq 0, but even an experimental upper limit on || of the order of few 10^-2 eV can provide information on the type of the neutrino mass spectrum; it can provide also a significant upper limit on the mass of the lightest neutrino m1. A measured value of || \geq 0.2 eV, combined with data on neutrino masses from the tritium beta-decay experiment KATRIN might allow to establish whether the CP-symmetry is violated in the lepton sector.

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