13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Doubly-charged scalar from the right-handed sector: complementary tests from $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, parity-violating Møller scattering, and colliders

15 May 2024, 14:15
15m
David Lawrence Hall 106 (University of Pittsburgh)

David Lawrence Hall 106

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga (Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington, USA)

Description

In the context of the left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay of the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay, parity-violating Møller scattering, and high-energy colliders, resulting from the Yukawa interaction of the right-handed doubly-charged scalar to electrons, which could evade the severe constraints from charged lepton flavor violation. The half-life $\onbb$ decay calculated in the effective field theory (EFT) framework allows for an improved description of the contributions with a non-zero left-right mixing and light right-handed neutrino.
We find that the sensitivities of the low-energy (or high-precision) and high-energy experiments are complementary to each other. The reach of parity-violating Møller scattering in the MOLLER experiment is stronger than those of future ton-scale $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay for TeV scale right-handed neutrino if the left-right mixing is negligible. On the other hand, for a non-zero left-right mixing, the constraints set by the MOLLER experiment become complementary to future ton-scale $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay experiments as well as direct searches and precision measurements at high-energy colliders.

Authors

Gang Li (School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, P.R. China) Juan Carlos Vasquez (Amherst College) Michael Ramsey-Musolf (U. Massachusetts Amherst) Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga (Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Washington, USA)

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