Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.055019
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- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/P00072X/1]
- VEGA Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic [1/0607/20]
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the INAFYM Grant [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000766]
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This paper investigates the effects of a sterile neutrino, coupled to the Standard Model either via a left-handed or right-handed current, on the energy distribution and angular correlation of outgoing electrons in two-neutrino double beta decay. The study focuses on the behavior of the energy distribution at the kinematic end point and estimates the current limits on the active-sterile mixing and effective right-handed coupling, as well as the sensitivities of future experiments. The results complement the corresponding constraints on sterile neutrinos from single beta decay measurements in the 0.1-10 MeV mass range.
Usually considered a background for experimental searches for the hypothetical neutrinoless double beta decay process, two-neutrino double beta decay nevertheless provides a complementary probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this paper we investigate how the presence of a sterile neutrino, coupled to the Standard Model either via a left-handed or right-handed current, affects the energy distribution and angular correlation of the outgoing electrons in two-neutrino double beta decay. We pay particular attention on the behavior of the energy distribution at the kinematic end point and we estimate the current limits on the active-sterile mixing and effective right-handed coupling using current experimental data as a function of the sterile neutrino mass. We also investigate the sensitivities of future experiments. Our results complement the corresponding constraints on sterile neutrinos from single beta decay measurements in the 0.1-10 MeV mass range.
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