Published June 1, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Pion dominance in R-parity violating supersymmetry induced neutrinoless double beta decay

  • 1. Institute fuer Theoretische Physik der Universitaet Tuebingen, D-72076 Tuebingen (Germany)
  • 2. Centro de Estudios Subatomicos (CES), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso (Chile)

Description

At the quark level there are basically two types of contributions of R-parity violating supersymmetry (Rep SUSY) to neutrinoless double beta decay: the short-range contribution involving only heavy virtual superpartners and the long-range one with the virtual squark and neutrino. Hadronization of the effective operators, corresponding to these two types of contributions, may in general involve virtual pions in addition to close on-mass-shell nucleons. From the previous studies it is known that the short-range contribution is dominated by the pion exchange. In the present paper we show that this is also true for the long-range Rep SUSY contribution. Therefore, we conclude that the Rep SUSY contributes to the neutrinoless double beta decay dominantly via charged pion exchange between the decaying nucleons

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
77
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 113012-113012.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40075580
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DOUBLE BETA DECAY; MASS; NEUTRINOS; NUCLEONS; PARITY; PIONS; QUARKS; SUPERSYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; BETA DECAY; BETA-MINUS DECAY; BOSONS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MESONS; NUCLEAR DECAY; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PSEUDOSCALAR MESONS; SYMMETRY

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