Model-independent constraint on the neutrino mass spectrum from the neutrinoless double beta decay
- 4 April 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 65 (7)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.65.077302
Abstract
We present a concise formula to relate the effective mass term of the neutrinoless double beta decay to a single neutrino mass, two Majorana CP-violating phases and four observables of neutrino oscillations for a generic neutrino mass spectrum. If the alleged evidence for the neutrinoless double beta decay is taken into account, one may obtain a rough but model-independent constraint on the absolute scale of neutrino masses -- it is most likely to be in the range between 0.1 eV and 1 eV.Comment: RevTex 8 pages. Some changes made. References added. Phys. Rev. D (in printingKeywords
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