Neutrinoless double-β decay with three or four neutrino mixing -: art. no. 036002

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Giunti, C
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[1] Univ Turin, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[2] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Teor, I-10125 Turin, Italy
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2000年 / 61卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.61.036002
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P1 [天文学];
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Considering the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and amass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, it is shown that the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses. Considering the four-neutrino schemes that can accommodate also the results of the LSND experiment, it is shown that one of them is favored by the results of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments and the measurement of the abundances of primordial elements produced in big-bang nucleosynthesis. It is shown that in this scheme, under the assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses, the results of the LSND experiment imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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