Neutrinoless double-beta decay and neutrino physics
Abstract
The connection of neutrino physics with the neutrinoless double-beta decay is reviewed. After presenting the current status of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix and the theoretical background of neutrino mass and lepton mixing, we will summarize the various implications of neutrino physics for the double-beta decay. The influence of light sterile neutrinos and other exotic modifications of the three neutrino picture is also discussed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1206.2560
- Bibcode:
- 2012JPhG...39l4008R
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Nuclear Experiment;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 27 pages, 10 figures. Accepted version of contribution to focus issue on Double Beta Decay in J. Phys. G