| |
Records |
Links |
|
Author  |
Gonzalez, M.; Hirsch, M.; Kovalenko, S.G. |
|
| |
Title |
Neutrinoless double beta decay and QCD running at low energy scales |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
|
| |
Volume |
97 |
Issue |
11 |
Pages |
115005 - 6pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
There is a common belief that the main uncertainties in the theoretical analysis of neutrinoless double beta (0 nu beta beta) decay originate from the nuclear matrix elements. Here, we uncover another previously overlooked source of potentially large uncertainties stemming from nonperturbative QCD effects. Recently perturbative QCD corrections have been calculated for all dimension 6 and 9 effective operators describing 0 nu beta beta-decay and their importance for a reliable treatment of 0 nu beta beta-decay has been demonstrated. However, these perturbative results are valid at energy scales above similar to 1 GeV, while the typical 0 nu beta beta scale is about similar to 100 MeV. In view of this fact we examine the possibility of extrapolating the perturbative results towards sub-GeV nonperturbative scales on the basis of the QCD coupling constant “freezing” behavior using background perturbation theory. Our analysis suggests that such an infrared extrapolation does modify the perturbative results for both short-range and long-range mechanisms of 0 nu beta beta-decay in general only moderately. We also discuss that the tensor circle times tensor effective operator cannot appear alone in the low energy limit of any renormalizable high-scale model and then demonstrate that all five linearly independent combinations of the scalar and tensor operators, which can appear in renormalizable models, are infrared stable. |
|
| |
Address |
[Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso 2390123, Chile, Email: marcela.gonzalezp@usm.cl; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
2470-0010 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000434211200008 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3603 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S.G.; Hirsch, M. |
|
| |
Title |
QCD running in neutrinoless double beta decay: Short-range mechanisms |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2016 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
|
| |
Volume |
93 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
013017 - 11pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
The decay rate of neutrinoless double beta (0 nu beta beta) decay contains terms from heavy particle exchange, which lead to dimension-9 (d = 9) six fermion operators at low energies. Limits on the coefficients of these operators have been derived previously neglecting the running of the operators between the high scale, where they are generated, and the energy scale of 0 nu beta beta decay, where they are measured. Here we calculate the leading-order QCD corrections to all possible d = 9 operators contributing to the 0 nu beta beta amplitude and use renormalization group running to calculate 1-loop improved limits. Numerically, QCD running dramatically changes some limits by factors of the order of or larger than typical uncertainties in nuclear matrix element calculations. For some specific cases, operator mixing in the running changes limits even by up to 3 orders of magnitude. Our results can be straightforwardly combined with new experimental limits or improved nuclear matrix element calculations to rederive updated limits on all short-range contributions to 0 nu beta beta decay. |
|
| |
Address |
[Gonzalez, M.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso 2390123, Chile, Email: marcela.gonzalezp@titulados.usm.cl; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1550-7998 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000368516100002 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
2539 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M. |
|
| |
Title |
LHC dijet constraints on double beta decay |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2015 |
Publication |
Physical Review D |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. D |
|
| |
Volume |
92 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
073017 - 7pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
We use LHC dijet data to derive constraints on neutrinoless double beta decay. Upper limits on cross sections for the production of “exotic” resonances, such as a right-handed W boson or a diquark, can be converted into lower limits on the double beta decay half-life for fixed choices of other parameters. Constraints derived from run-I data are already surprisingly strong and complementary to results from searches using same-sign dileptons plus jets. For the case of the left-right symmetric model, in case no new resonance is found in future runs of the LHC and assuming g(L) = g(R), we estimate a lower limit on the double beta decay half-life larger than 10(27) yr can be derived from future dijet data, except in the window of relatively light right-handed neutrino masses in the range 0.5 MeV to 50 GeV. Part of this mass window will be tested in the upcoming SHiP experiment. We also discuss current and future limits on possible scalar diquark contributions to double beta decay that can be derived from dijet data. |
|
| |
Address |
[Helo, J. C.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: juancarlos.helo@usm.cl; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1550-7998 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000363526700004 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
2419 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Ota, T. |
|
| |
Title |
Long-range contributions to double beta decay revisited |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2016 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
|
| |
Volume |
06 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
006 - 32pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
|
| |
Abstract |
We discuss the systematic decomposition of all dimension-7 (d = 7) lepton number violating operators. These d = 7 operators produce momentum enhanced contributions to the long-range part of the 0 nu beta beta decay amplitude and thus are severely constrained by existing half-live limits. In our list of possible models one can find contributions to the long-range amplitude discussed previously in the literature, such as the left-right symmetric model or scalar leptoquarks, as well as some new models not considered before. The d = 7 operators generate Majorana neutrino mass terms either at tree-level, 1-loop or 2-loop level. We systematically compare constraints derived from the mass mechanism to those derived from the long-range 0 nu beta beta decay amplitude and classify our list of models accordingly. We also study one particular example decomposition, which produces neutrino masses at 2-loop level, can fit oscillation data and yields a large contribution to the long-range 0 nu beta beta decay amplitude, in some detail. |
|
| |
Address |
[Helo, J. C.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-5, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: juancarlos.helo@usm.cl; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Springer |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1029-8479 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000377413400001 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
2721 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Ota, T. |
|
| |
Title |
Proton decay and light sterile neutrinos |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2018 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
|
| |
Volume |
06 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
047 - 15pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
|
| |
Abstract |
Within the standard model, non-renormalizable operators at dimension six (d = 6) violate baryon and lepton number by one unit and thus lead to proton decay. Here, we point out that the proton decay mode with a charged pion and missing energy can be a characteristic signature of d = 6 operators containing a light sterile neutrino, if it is not accompanied by the standard pi(0)e(+) final state. We discuss this effect first at the level of effective operators and then provide a concrete model with new physics at the TeV scale, in which the lightness of the active neutrinos and the stability of the proton are related. |
|
| |
Address |
[Helo, Juan C.] Univ La Serena, Fac Ciencias, Dept Fis, Ave Cisternas 1200, La Serena, Chile, Email: jchelo@userena.cl; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Springer |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1029-8479 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000435023100004 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
3610 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
