Speaker
Vincenzo Cirigliano
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description
In this talk I will discuss searches for neutrinoless double beta decay as a probe of lepton number violation. After a general introduction, I will discuss an “end-to-end” effective field theory approach to neutrinoless double beta decay based on the Standard Model EFT at high scales and on chiral effective theory at hadronic and nuclear scales. In this framework, I will discuss various sources of lepton number violation, ranging from light Majorana neutrino exchange to TeV-scale mechanisms.
