Study of Neutrino Properties and Weak Interaction in Double Beta Decay Experiments
Abstract
Investigation of the neutrinoless double beta decay is a unique way to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. The process is sensitive to the lepton number violation, the nature of neutrino (Majorana or Dirac particle), an absolute scale of neutrino mass and the neutrino mass hierarchy. Neutrinoless double beta decay is still not observed, only limits on its half-life were set in the most sensitive experiments. The searches for double beta decay are carried out by different methods, in particular with low-background scintillation and semiconductor detectors. To determine a neutrino mass hierarchy new generation experiment should be sensitive to the effective neutrino mass 0.02 - 0.05 eV, which corresponds to the half-lives T1/2 ~ 1026 - 1027 years and requires ultra-low background detectors with a high energy resolution applying hundreds kilograms of the isotope of interest. Low temperature scintillating bolometers are the most promising technique for such experiments.
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