The fundamental importance of searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay is widely recognized. Observation of the decay would tell us that the total lepton number is not conserved and that, consequently, neutrinos are massive Majorana fermions. The same statement could be made in the case of obser
Probing double beta decay by nuclear muon capture
β Scribed by M. Kortelainen; J. Suhonen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 143
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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