Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-11-11
Phys.Rev.D81:034018,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 figures, one table, 20 LaTex pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.034018
It is well known that neutrinoless double decay is going to play a crucial role in settling the neutrino properties, which cannot be extracted from the neutrino oscillation data. It is, in particular, expected to settle the absolute scale of neutrino mass and determine whether the neutrinos are Majorana particles, i.e. they coincide with their own antiparticles. In order to extract the average neutrino mass from the data one must be able to estimate the contribution all possible high mass intermediate particles. The latter, which occur in practically all extensions of the standard model, can, in principle, be differentiated from the usual mass term, if data from various targets are available. One, however, must first be able reliably calculate the corresponding nuclear matrix elements. Such calculations are extremely difficult since the effective transition operators are very short ranged. For such operators processes like pionic contributions, which are usually negligible, turn out to be dominant. We study such an effect in a non relativistic quark model for the pion and the nucleon.
Faessler Amand
Toki Hiroshi
Vergados John D.
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