Double-beta decay and a massive Majorana neutrino
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 13 (9), 2567-2571
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.13.2567
Abstract
We consider the possibility that nuclear no-neutrino double-beta decay is mediated by a universally coupled heavy Majorana electron neutrino. From the known rates of nuclear double-beta decays we conclude that the mass of this neutrino must be at least GeV.
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