Eur. Phys. J. C 70, 927-943 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1481-5

Probing new physics models of neutrinoless double beta decay with SuperNEMO

¹ IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, 67037, Strasbourg, France
² LAL, Université Paris-Sud 11, CNRS/IN2P3, 91405, Orsay, France
³ INL, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
⁴ Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117259, Moscow, Russia
⁵ University College London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK
⁶ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
⁷ University of Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain
⁸ LPC Caen, ENSICAEN, Université de Caen, 14032, Caen, France
⁹ Université de Bordeaux, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, UMR 5797, 33175, Gradignan, France
¹⁰ CNRS/IN2P3, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan, UMR 5797, 33175, Gradignan, France
¹¹ University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK
¹² IFIC, CSIC—Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
¹³ Tokushima University, Tokushima, 770-8502, Japan
¹⁴ FMFI, Comenius University, 842 48, Bratislava, Slovakia
¹⁵ KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
¹⁶ USMBA, Fes, Morocco
¹⁷ University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-0264, USA
¹⁸ IEAP, Czech Technical University in Prague, 12800, Prague, Czech Republic
¹⁹ Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
²⁰ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola, Spain
²¹ Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
²² Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, London, UK
²³ MHC, South Hadley, MA, 01075, USA
²⁴ Fukui University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
²⁵ INR, MSP, 03680, Kyiv, Ukraine
²⁶ Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

chris.jackson@hep.manchester.ac.uk

Received: 4 May 2010
Revised: 19 September 2010
Published online: 18 November 2010

Abstract

The possibility to probe new physics scenarios of light Majorana neutrino exchange and right-handed currents at the planned next generation neutrinoless double β decay experiment SuperNEMO is discussed. Its ability to study different isotopes and track the outgoing electrons provides the means to discriminate different underlying mechanisms for the neutrinoless double β decay by measuring the decay half-life and the electron angular and energy distributions.