Lepton Number Violation: from $0\nu \beta \beta$ Decay to Long-Lived Particle Searches

Abstract

We study the complementary tests of lepton number violation in $0\nu \beta \beta$-decay experiments, long-lived particle (LLP) searches at the LHC main detectors ATLAS/CMS, and a proposed far detector MATHUSLA. In the context of a simplified model with a scalar doublet $S$ and a Majorana fermion $F$, we show that while the $0\nu \beta \beta$-decay experiments can probe a larger portion of parameter space, the LLP searches can uniquely probe the region of smaller couplings and masses if $S$ is at TeV scale while $F$ is at or below the electroweak scale. We also investigate constraints on the parameter space from the existing searches that are insensitive to lepton number violation.

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures; v2: match the published version in PRD, minor changes