Published November 1, 2008
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Journal article
Unparticle effects on neutrinoless and neutrino double beta decay
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Hunan 410073 (China)
Description
The neutrinoless and neutrinos double beta decays are investigated in an effective theory where a scalar unparticle is introduced. We calculate the contributions of a virtual unparticle to the rates of 0ν2β and 2ν2β decays. The unparticle effect is negligibly small when the scaling dimension d of unparticle lies in the region 1.1-1.9. But it can be relatively large when d approaches to 1 or 2. We also study the neutrinoless double beta decay with a real unparticle in the final state which cannot be distinguished from 2ν2β decay in experiment. We consider the unparticle effect on extracting the neutrino mass parameter mββ from experimental data and find that it can be relatively large when d takes certain values.
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 78
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 096006-096006.7
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41005244
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DOUBLE BETA DECAY; FIELD THEORIES; MASS; NEUTRINOS; SCALING
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY; BETA-MINUS DECAY; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NUCLEAR DECAY; SIMULATION
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- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society