Neutrinoless double beta decay and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe
@article{Deppisch2017NeutrinolessDB, title={Neutrinoless double beta decay and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe}, author={Frank F. Deppisch and Luk{\'a}{\vs} Gr{\'a}f and Julia Harz and Wei-Chih Huang}, journal={Physical Review D}, year={2017} }
We discuss the impact of the observation of neutrinoless double beta decay on the washout of lepton number in the early universe. Neutrinoless double beta decay can be triggered by a large number of mechanisms that can be encoded in terms of standard model effective operators which violate lepton number by two units. We calculate the contribution of such operators to the rate of neutrinoless double beta decay and correlate it with the washout of lepton number induced by the same operators in…
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