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Dissecting lepton number violating interactions in the left-right symmetric model: 0νββ decay, Møller scattering, and collider searches

  • 1. ROR icon Sun Yat-sen University
  • 2. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 3. ROR icon Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 4. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 5. ROR icon University of Washington
  • 6. ROR icon Northwestern University
  • 7. ROR icon International School for Advanced Studies

Abstract

In the context of the left-right symmetric model, we study the interplay of neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) 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 0νββ decay amplitude receives additional contributions from right-handed sterile neutrinos. The half-life, calculated in the effective field theory framework, allows for an improved description of the contributions involving non-zero mixing between left- and right-handed W bosons and those arising from exchanging a light right-handed neutrino. We find that the relative sensitivities between the low-energy (or high-precision) and high-energy experiments are affected by the left-right mixing. On the other hand, our results show how the interplay of collider and low-energy searches provides a manner to explore regions that are inaccessible to 0νββ decay experiments.

Copyright and License

© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Funded by SCOAP³. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Acknowledgement

GL is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12347105, the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2024A1515012668), and SYSU startup funding. MJRM and SUQ were supported in part under the US Department of Energy contract DE-SC0011095. SUQ also acknowledges the support of the U.S. DOE under Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER41132. SUQ would like to thank the High Energy Theory Group at William & Mary for their hospitality, where part of this work was conducted.

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Dissecting Lepton Number Violation in the Left-Right Symmetric Model: 0νββ decay, Møller scattering, and collider searches

Related works

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Discussion Paper: arXiv:2408.06306 (arXiv)

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China
12347105
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2024A1515012668
Sun Yat-sen University
United States Department of Energy
DE-SC0011095
United States Department of Energy
DE-FG02-00ER41132
SCOAP3

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2025-12-30
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2026-01-04
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Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA)
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