https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3802-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Effective Majorana mass and neutrinoless double beta decay
Physik Institut der Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
* e-mail: gbenato@physik.uzh.ch
Received:
6
October
2015
Accepted:
13
November
2015
Published online:
28
November
2015
The probability distribution for the effective Majorana mass as a function of the lightest neutrino mass in the standard three neutrino scheme is computed via a random sampling from the distributions of the involved mixing angles and squared mass differences. A flat distribution in the ![$$[0,2\pi ]$$](/articles/epjc/abs/2015/11/10052_2015_Article_3802/10052_2015_Article_3802_tex_eq1.png)
range for the Majorana phases is assumed, and the dependence of small values of the effective mass on the Majorana phases is highlighted. The study is then extended with the addition of the cosmological bound on the sum of the neutrino masses. Finally, the prospects for 
decay search with 
Ge, 
Te and 
Xe are discussed, as well as those for the measurement of the electron neutrino mass.
© SIF and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015
