GENIUS project, neutrino oscillations and Cosmology: neutrinos reveal their nature?

Abstract

The neutrinoless double beta decay as well as any other laboratory experiment has not been able to answer the question of the neutrino's nature. Hints on the answer are available when neutrino oscillations and $(\beta \beta {)}_{0\nu }$ are considered simultaneously. In this case phenomenologically interesting neutrino mass schemes can lead to non-vanishing and large values of $<m_{\nu }>$. As a consequence, some schemes with Majorana neutrinos can be ruled out even now. If we assume that in addition neutrinos contribute to Hot Dark Matter then the window for Majorana neutrinos is even more restricted, e.g. GENIUS experiment will be sensitive to scenarios with three Majorana neutrinos.

Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Acta. Phys. Pol. B