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Current Status and Future Outlook of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches
Lisha*1, Neelu Mahajan1
1Department of Physics, Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Chandigarh, India-160031
corresponding author: neelu.mahajan@ggdsd.ac.in
In the last two decades, the search for understanding the nature of neutrinos and the origin of mass is one of the topics of paramount importance and emerged as a prolific field of research. The main reason behind this, is the discovery of neutrino oscillations which clearly stated the existence of massive neutrinos and provided a signal to explore New Physics (NP). Further, an additional motivation comes from the evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay. Sequel to it, a new generation experiments having different detection and isotope techniques is being actively done by experimental groups across the world. In this paper, the physics of neutrino less double beta decay is briefly discussed, mainly the nature of neutrinos whether they are Dirac or Majorana. The current experimental data and sensitivity of future experiments are also presented. If the signal of neutrino less double beta decay is observed, searches would demonstrate the Majorana nature of neutrinos, hence provide a precise measurement of their mass. This unambiguous detection would open an exciting era for next generation searches with an objective to understand the physics mechanism.
Keywords: Neutrino, Neutrino Oscillations, Majorana neutrinos, Neutrinoless double beta decay,
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