Bounds on compositeness from neutrinoless double β decay
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (9) , 5308-5313
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.5308
Abstract
Assuming the existence of a heavy Majorana neutral particle arising from a composite model scenario we discuss the constraints imposed by present experimental limits of half-life neutrinoless double beta decay $(0\nu\beta\beta ) $ measurements on the coupling of the heavy composite neutrinos to the gauge bosons. For neutrino masses $M_N = 1 $ TeV we obtain a rather weak lower bound on the compositeness scale: $\Lambda \ge 0.23 $ TeV.
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