Probing New Physics Models of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with SuperNEMO

R. Arnold (1) , C. Augier (2, 3) , J. Baker , A. S. Barabash (4) , A. Basharina-Freshville , M. Bongrand (2) , V. Brudanin , A. J. Caffrey , S. Cebrián , A. Chapon (5) , E. Chauveau (6) , Th. Dafni , F. F. Deppisch , J. Diaz (7) , D. Dominique Durand (5) , V. A. Egorov , J. J. Evans , R. Flack , K-I. Fushima , I. García Irastorza , X. Garrido (2) , H. Gómez , B. Guillon (5) , A. Holin , K. Holy , J. J. Horkley , Ph. Hubert (6) , C. Hugon (6) , F. J. Iguaz , N. Ishihara , C. M. Jackson , Sophie Jullian (2) , M. Kauer , O. Kochetov , S. I. Konovalov (4) , V. V. Kovalenko (1) , T. Lamhamdi , K. Lang , G. Lutter (6) , G. Luzón , F. Mamedov , Ch. Marquet (6) , F. Mauger (5) , F. Monrabal (7) , A. Nachab (6) , I. Nasteva , I. Nemchenok , C. H. Nguyen (6) , M. Nomachi , F. Nova , H. Ohsumi (6) , R. B. Pahlka , F. Perrot (6) , F. Piquemal (6) , P. P. Povinec , B. Richards , J. S. Ricol (6) , C. L. Riddle , A. Rodríguez , R. Saakyan , X. Sarazin (2) , J. K. Sedgbeer , L. Serra (7) , Yu. Shitov , L. Simard (2) , F. Šimkovic , S. Söldner-Rembold , I. Štekl , C. S. Sutton , Y. Tamagawa , J. Thomas , V. Timkin , V. Tretyak , Vl. I. Tretyak , V. I. Umatov (4) , I. A. Vanyushin (4) , R. Vasiliev , V. Vasiliev , V. Vorobel , D. Waters , N. Yahlali (7) , A. Žukauskas

1 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
2 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
3 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
4 ITEP - Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics [Moscow]
5 LPCC - Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen
6 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
7 IFIC - Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular

The possibility to probe new physics scenarios of light Majorana neutrino exchange and right-handed currents at the planned next generation neutrinoless double beta 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 beta decay by measuring the decay half-life and the electron angular and energy distributions.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

R. Arnold, C. Augier, J. Baker, A. S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, et al.. Probing New Physics Models of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with SuperNEMO. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2010, 70, pp.927-943. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1481-5⟩. ⟨in2p3-00542775⟩