Neutrinoless double-beta decay of the kaon in a relativistic quark model

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1 October 1984

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D

Vol. 30 (7) , 1488-1491
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.30.1488

Abstract

The rate of the decay

K^{+} \to μ^{+} μ^{+} π^{-}

is computed in a relativistic quark model for the mesons. This double-beta decay is assumed to be induced by a light Majorana neutrino mass

m_{ν}

. The rate for this mode is 7 ×

10^{- 19}

\sec^{- 1}

, for

m_{ν} \sim 1

keV.

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