What can we learn about neutrinoless double beta decay at the LHC ?

Particle Physics Theory seminar

What can we learn about neutrinoless double beta decay at the LHC ?

  • Event time: 2:00pm
  • Event date: 10th November 2010
  • Speaker: Steve Chun-Hay Kom (University of Cambridge)
  • Location: Lecture Theatre C,

Event details

If neutrinoless double beta decay (0vbb) is observed, it will be important to understand the underlying mechanism driving this process. I will give a brief overview of 0vbb, before discussing how for certain TeV scale lepton number violating (LNV) theories the LHC could act as a complementary probe of 0vbb. In many cases there are LNV couplings that can lead to collider final states indistinguishable from those related to 0vbb. I will discuss how charge asymmetry ratio could give us additional information to differentiate these couplings.

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