arXiv:hep-ph/0302248·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Status of Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus🇩🇪 · A. Dietz (MPI-Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)🇩🇪 · I.V. Krivosheina (Radiophysical-Research Institute, Nishnii-Novgorod, Russia and MPI-Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)🇩🇪
Abstract
The present experimental status in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay is reviewed, with emphasis on the first indication for neutrinoless double beta decay found in the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment, giving first evidence for lepton number violation and a Majorana nature of the neutrinos. Future perspectives of the field are briefly outlined.
Comments: 37 pages, latex, 23 figures, Published in Found. Phys. 32 (2002) 1181-1223 and Presented at Fourth Heidelberg International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, DARK2002, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 - 9 February, 2002, eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and R. Viollier, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, (2002) 367-403 see Home Page of Heidelberg Non-Accelerator Particle Physics Group: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc/buecher.html#DARK2002