International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number Violation (BLV 2024)

Oct 8, 2024, 8:00 AM → Oct 11, 2024, 7:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Pavel Fileviez Perez (CWRU), Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (KIT)

The 2024 International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number Violation (BLV2024) will be organized by the Institute for Astroparticle Physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and take place in Karlsruhe on October 8-11, 2024 at KIT Campus South.

After Berkeley (2007), Madison (2009), Gattinburg (2011), Heidelberg (2013), UMass (2015), Cleveland (2017), Madrid (2019) and Brussels (2022) this will be the 9th edition of this workshop.

The main topics of this workshop are:

• Neutrino physics
• Baryogenesis mechanisms
• Baryon number violating processes
• Lepton number violation in low energy processes
• Lepton flavor violating processes
• Baryon and lepton number violation at colliders
• Dark matter

and it covers a wide range of BSM physics, with both a theoretical and an experimental component.

The preliminary schedule for the conference is to start on Tue, 8 Oct 2024, 9:00 and end on Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at lunch time. We will offer the possibility to  visit the KATRIN neutrino mass experiment on Friday afternoon. There is no conference fee.

Oral contributions are by invitation only, but we welcome abstract submissions for contributed talks (subject to approval), especially for early career researchers. Abstract submission deadline is 30 June 2024.

WARNING: if you get contacted by an "agency" or "company" offering some services related to your participation, please do not reply and ignore such messages.  They are scam, we have not engaged any company related to BLV2024.

This workshop is supported by the KIT Center Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA) and by the Collaborative Research Center Particle Physics Phenomenology after the Higgs Discovery

Picture: Karlsruhe Castle @ Night – © Stefan Zimmermann

General Terms and Conditions of KIT for the Registration for Events

 

Tuesday, October 8

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome

BLV-intro.pdf

9:15 AM → 10:45 AM Baryon number violating processes: 1

9:15 AM Hyperkamiokande (25'+5')

Speaker: Volodymyr Takhistov (QUP, KEK)

BLV2024_HK_Takhistov.pdf

9:45 AM Recent Theory Developments on Baryon Number Violating Processes in the Context of GUTs (25'+5')

Speaker: Michal Malinský (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)

Karlsruhe2024.pdf

10:15 AM Recent Experimental Activities in Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations (25'+5')

Speaker: David Milstead (Fysikum, Stockholms Universitet)

BLV24-DMilstead.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 12:50 PM Baryon number violating processes: 2

11:15 AM Baryon Number Violation EFT (20'+5')

Speaker: John Gargalionis (IFIC)

Gargalionis_BLV2024.pdf

11:40 AM Destabilizing Matter through a Long-Range Force (20'+5')

Speaker: HOOMAN DAVOUDIASL (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

HDavoudiasl-BLV-2024-talk.pdf

12:05 PM Dark Matter Catalyzed Baryon Destruction (20'+5')

Speaker: Yohei Ema

Ema_BLV2024.pdf

12:30 PM Sources of CP Violation for Electroweak Baryogenesis (17'+3')

A persistent issue in electroweak baryogenesis calculations is the significant disparity in predictions yielded by different approaches, with variations spanning several orders of magnitude. In this study, we examine a system comprising two fermion flavours, proposing the existence of two sources of CP-violating. The semiclassical force and a new resonantly enhanced mixing source can be derived from the collisionless Kadanoff-Baym equation. The two sources are derived using the semiclassical approximation and the VEV insertion approximation. A Higgsino-Bino toy model shows that the new resonantly enhanced mixing source generates sufficient asymmetry to evade EDM bounds. In addition, a ready-to-plug equation for the source is prepared so phenomenologist can use it in their favourite model.

Speaker: Bahaa Ilyas (Technical University of Munich)

Bahaa Ilyas CPV sources for EWBG - BLV 2024 .pdf

12:50 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM → 3:45 PM Lepton flavor violating processes: 1

2:15 PM Lepton Flavour Violation (25'+5')

Speaker: Ana M. Teixeira (LPC Clermont)

AMTeixeira_KIT_2024.pdf

2:45 PM Lepton Flavor Violation by Two Units (17'+3')

Speaker: Julian Heeck (University of Virginia)

heeck-lfv_BLV.pdf

3:05 PM The Latest Results of the MEG II Experiment (17'+3')

Speaker: Giovanni Dal Maso (Psul Sherrer Insitut - PSI)

2024_10_08_KIT_BLV.pdf

3:25 PM Probing CLFV with the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab (17'+3')

Speaker: Stefan E. Müller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

smueller_BLV2024.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 6:00 PM Lepton flavor violating processes: 2

4:15 PM Search for LFV and Light New Physics at Belle-II (17'+3')

Speaker: Youngjoon Kwon (Department of Physics, Yonsei University)

BLV_Belle II_Y.Kwon.pdf

4:35 PM Searches for Hidden Sectors and Lepton Flavour Violation in Kaon Decays (17'+3')

Rare kaon decays are among the most sensitive probes of both heavy and light new physics beyond the Standard Model description thanks to high precision of the Standard Model predictions, availability of very large datasets, and the relatively simple decay topologies. The NA62 experiment at CERN is a multi-purpose high-intensity kaon decay experiment, and carries out a broad rare-decay and hidden-sector physics programme. NA62 has collected a large sample of $K^+$ decays in flight during Run 1 in 2016-2018, and the ongoing Run 2 which started in 2021. Recent NA62 results on searches for hidden-sector mediators and searches for violation of lepton number and lepton flavour conservation in kaon decays based on the Run 1 dataset are presented. Future prospects of these searches are discussed.

Speaker: Riccardo Fantechi (INFN - Sezione di Pisa)

2_Fantechi_BLV2024.pdf

4:55 PM Bounds on Ultra Heavy HNLs (17'+3')

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles that are able to explain neutrino oscillations. The presence of HNLs induces charged lepton flavor violating (cLFV) processes. Non-observations of these processes puts the strongest limits on parameters of HNL much heavier than the electroweak scale.
We demonstrate that for such HNLs, the branching ratio of cLFV processes is actually mass-dependent. Given this fact, we improve current bounds on HNL mass and mixing angle. Furthermore, we perform a perturbative unitarity analysis to identify the domain of validity of our results.

Speaker: Mr Kevin Alberto Urquía-Calderón (Niels Bohr Institute)

BLV_slides.pdf

5:15 PM Heavy Sterile Neutrinos from B decays and new QCD Corrections to their Semi-Hadronic Decay Rates (17'+3')

In modern experiments on flavour physics it is possible to search for the decays of $B$’s, $D$’s, or $\tau$’s into final states with heavy neutrinos $N$ (a.k.a. heavy neutral leptons). I present a common study of theorists and experimentalists from Belle II on constraints on $B-> D^{*} \ell N$. Next I discuss the status of the theory predictions of the various $N$ decay rates. In scenarios in which $N$ interacts with SM particles only through sterile-active neutrino mixing, the dependence of the lifetime on the relevant mixing angles is important to determine whether $N$ decays in the detector or outside. To calculate the inclusive decay rate into semi-hadronic final states reliably one needs to include radiative QCD corrections. I present analytic results for the QCD-corrected decay rates and discuss their phenomenological impact.

Speaker: Mr Tim Kretz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT - TTP))

BLVKretz08102024.pdf

5:35 PM Testing the Standard Model with Most Accurate Muon g-2 Measurements (17'+3')

The magnetic moment anomaly of the muon, that relates the cyclotron and spin precession frequency, provides one of the most stringent tests of the Standard Model of Particle Physics since it is measured and theoretically predicted to very high precision. Deviations between theoretical prediction and experimental measurements can be used to investigate tensions in the methods or can be interpreted as hints for physics beyond the Standard Model. In August 2023, the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment reported its result from measurement campaigns 2 and 3, which in combination with run 1 increased the precision to now 200 ppb. The increase in precision is both due to increased statistics and reduced systematics. This milestone puts the Muon g-2 experiment well on its way to surpass its design precision of 140 ppb with final statistics. In this contribution we review the measurement principle of the Muon g-2, point out experimental improvements in the recent measurement and put the measurement in the context of the current theoretical effort.

Speaker: René Reimann (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

BLV2024_G2Muon_Reimann.pdf

BLV2024_G2Muon_Reimann.pptx

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Welcome reception

Wednesday, October 9

9:00 AM → 10:35 AM B and L violation at current or future colliders: 1

9:00 AM Heavy Neutrino-Antineutrino Oscillations at Collider Experiments (25'+5')

Speaker: Stefan Antusch (University of Basel)

Antusch_HNuAntinuOsc_2024.pdf

9:30 AM Prospects for Discovering LNV at the FCC (20'+5')

Whether lepton number is a conserved or violated symmetry of nature remains one of the most pressing questions today, with far-reaching consequences across astrophysics, particle physics, and nuclear physics. If lepton number is indeed violated, it is also unknown whether it occurs at a scale accessible with laboratory experiments. The discovery of lepton number violation in the laboratory would have a monumental impact on understanding what lies beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This talk gives a broad overview of the (current) projected sensitivity to discovering lepton number violation at the proposed Future Circular Collider program at CERN.

Speaker: Richard Ruiz (IFJ PAN)

rruiz_BLV24_LNVfcc.pdf

9:55 AM On Lepton Number Violation in Type II Seesaw (17'+3')

We determine the prospect of observing genuine lepton number violating (LNV) signals at hadron
colliders in the context of type II seesaw.
The model features smoking gun signals with same-sign di-leptons and jets that may be the
primary observable channel in a certain portion of parameter space.
The charged lepton flavour composition in the minimal model relates to the origin of neutrino mass
and correlates with other rare processes, such as neutrinoless double beta decay.
We review the existing collider limits and provide sensitivity estimates of LNV signals, with
degenerate masses and with mass splittings, for the upcoming runs at the LHC.

Speaker: Jonathan Kriewald (IJS)

jkriewald_BLV2024.pdf

10:15 AM Some Novel Searches for Neutrino Dipole Moments (17'+3')

Speaker: Michele Frigerio

NeutrinoDipoleMoments.pdf

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee break

11:05 AM → 12:40 PM Baryogenesis mechanisms: 1

11:05 AM Observable Leptogenesis (25'+5')

Speaker: Nuria Rius (IFIC, CSIC-Valencia University)

BLV_24_NR.pdf

11:35 AM Wash-in Leptogenesis with Dirac Neutrino Scatterings (20'+5')

We present a Dirac leptogenesis model in which the only out-of-equilibrium particles are right-handed neutrinos undergoing asymmetric scatterings. They are produced from a negligible initial abundance and their density freezes in soon after reheating. Even though the asymmetry source term vanishes, we demonstrate that opposite asymmetries of right-handed neutrinos and standard model leptons are washed in.

Speaker: Peter Maták (Comenius University in Bratislava)

BLV_Peter_Matak.pdf

12:00 PM Effects of Reheating on Charged Lepton Yukawa Equilibration and Leptogenesis (17'+3')

We show that the process of non-instantaneous reheating during the post-inflationary period can have a sizable impact on the charged lepton Yukawa equilibration temperature in the early Universe. This suggests relooking the effects of lepton flavors in the leptogenesis scenario where the production and decay of right-handed neutrinos take place within this prolonged era of reheating. We find this observation has the potential to shift the flavor regime(s) of leptogenesis compared to the standard thermal scenario.

Speaker: Dr Rishav Roshan (University Of Southampton)

BLV_Rishav.pdf

12:20 PM Spontaneous Leptogenesis with sub-GeV Axion Like Particles (17'+3')

A derivative coupling of an axion-like particle (ALP) with a B-L current can lead to the baryon asymmetry of the universe through spontaneous leptogenesis, provided there is a lepton number-breaking interaction in thermal equilibrium. Typically, this requires heavy ALPs and a high reheating temperature, as the lepton number-breaking is also linked to neutrino mass generation. In this study, we propose leveraging an inert Higgs doublet to facilitate the lepton number-violating operator, reducing this constraint. This enables the generation of lepton asymmetry (via freeze-in/out processes) at a much lower reheating temperature, accommodating light (sub-GeV) ALPs that are sensitive to current and future ALP searches.

Speaker: Soumen Kumar Manna (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

4_Talk-BLV-Soumen.pdf

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:35 PM Neutrino physics: 1

2:00 PM Global Analysis of Oscillation Data in the Presence of BSM Neutrino Properties (25'+5')

Speaker: Michele Maltoni (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC)

seminar-maltoni.pdf

2:30 PM Neutrino Mass Ordering (20'+5')

Speaker: Prof. Renata Zukanovich Funchal

BLV-RZF24.pdf

2:55 PM Probing the Neutrino Mass and Beyond with the KATRIN Experiment (17'+3')

The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment aims to measure the effective electron antineutrino mass using ultra-high precision spectroscopy of tritium $\beta$-decay in the kinematic endpoint region. The most stringent upper limit on the neutrino mass was recently placed at $m_\nu c^2 < 0.45\,\mathrm{eV}$ ($90\,\%$ CL), using a fraction of the final dataset and improved operational conditions.
Processes that impact the decay kinematics or alter the interaction structure can cause spectral features beyond the neutrino mass. KATRIN investigates new physics scenarios such as mixing with an eV-scale sterile neutrino, the capture of cosmic relic neutrinos on tritium nuclei, and signatures of Lorentz-invariance violation. Additionally, the experiment probes non-standard interactions contributing in the decay structure and explores the coupling of eV-scale BSM bosons to the final state leptons.
This talk will review the latest result of KATRIN and present a selection of the aforementioned searches beyond the neutrino mass.

Speaker: Joscha Lauer (KIT)

BLV2024_KATRIN.pdf

3:15 PM Is Cosmology in Conflict with Neutrino Oscillations? (17'+3')

Speaker: Daniel Naredo (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

Naredo_BLV.pdf

3:35 PM → 4:05 PM Coffee break

4:05 PM → 5:25 PM Neutrino physics: 2

4:05 PM Boosting the Production of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Self-Interactions (17'+3')

Sterile neutrinos are well-motivated and simple dark matter (DM) candidates. However, sterile neutrino DM produced through oscillations by the Dodelson-Widrow mechanism is excluded by current X-ray observations and bounds from structure formation. One minimal extension, that preserves the attractive features of this scenario, is self-interactions among sterile neutrinos. In this work, we analyze how sterile neutrino self-interactions mediated by a scalar affect the production of keV sterile neutrinos for a wide range of mediator masses. We find four distinct regimes of production characterized by different phenomena, including partial thermalization for low and intermediate masses and resonant production for heavier mediators. We show that significant new regions of parameter space become available which provide a target for future observations.

Speaker: Stefan Vogl

Vogl_BLV.pdf

4:25 PM New Physics and Primordial Neutrinos Decoupling: a DSMC Approach (17'+3')

Primordial neutrinos are important messengers from the Early Universe, affecting several key observables such as primordial nuclear abundances and cosmic microwave background. If some new physics existed at the time around neutrino decoupling, it would have left imprints on the neutrino distribution function, which requires solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation. Existing approaches have limitations that prevent using them in a universal way for the cases with new physics particles decaying into neutrinos. Addressing this issue, we present a novel approach to studying the interactions of neutrinos based on Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). In particular, we resolve the existing discrepancies between the Boltzmann codes regarding the impact of highly non-thermal neutrinos on Neff, and study the interplay of possible large lepton asymmetries in the neutrino sector and injections of high-energy neutrinos.

Speaker: Maksym Ovchynnikov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

BLV_workshop__DSMC (1).pdf

4:45 PM Long-lived Neutral Fermions at the DUNE near Detector (17'+3')

At the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a proton beam hits a fixed target leading to large production rates of mesons. These mesons can decay and potentially provide a source of long-lived neutral fermions. Examples of such long-lived fermions are heavy neutral leptons which can mix with the standard-model active neutrinos, and the bino-like lightest neutralino in R-parity-violating supersymmetry. We show that the Standard Model Effective Field Theory extended with right-handed singlet neutrinos can simultaneously describe heavy neutral leptons and bino-like neutralinos in a unified manner. We use the effective-field-theory framework to determine the sensitivity reach of the DUNE near detector in probing various scenarios of long-lived neutral fermions.

Speaker: Julian Günther (Universität Bonn)

Oct2024_BLV_Workshop_Guenther.pdf

5:05 PM Testing Neutrino Mass Origins with Supernova Neutrinos (17'+3')

Speaker: Chui-Fan Kong

BLV_Kong.pdf

Thursday, October 10

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Dark Matter: 1

9:00 AM Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry and Dark Matter Stability from Baryon Number Conservation (25'+5')

Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)

Ibarra_BLV.pdf

9:30 AM Cosmic Axion Background from the Primordial Bath (20'+5')

Speaker: Francesco D'Eramo (University of Padua & INFN Padua)

DEramo_BLV2024.pdf

9:55 AM Dark Matter Decay (20'+5')

Speaker: Laura Lopez-Honorez

24-BLV-LLH.pdf

10:20 AM Axion Haloscopes for Gravitational Wave Searches (20'+5')

Speaker: Dr Camilo Garcia Cely

KarlsruheGarciaCely.pdf

10:45 AM → 11:15 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM → 12:35 PM Dark Matter: 2

11:15 AM Strongly-Interacting Massive Particles and Dark Matter Capture in Celestial Bodies (17'+3')

Speaker: Juri Smirnov (University of Liverpool)

Karslruhe Strong DM.pdf

11:35 AM Direct Detection of Light DM (17'+3')

Speaker: Gonzalo Herrera (Virginia Tech)

direct_detection_light_DM_KIT_Herrera.pdf

11:55 AM Gamma Lines and Dark Matter from Anomaly Cancellation (17'+3')

We discuss a simple theory for physics beyond the Standard Model where a Majorana dark matter is predicted from anomaly cancellation. We discuss in detail the minimal theory where the baryon number is a local symmetry spontaneously broken at the low scale. The correlation between the cosmological constraints on the dark matter relic density, the direct detection and collider bounds is investigated. We discuss in great detail the gamma lines from dark matter annihilation showing the possibility to test these predictions in the near future at gamma-ray telescopes such as CTA. We investigate all processes contributing to the total photon flux from dark matter annihilation and point out the unique features that can be used to test this theory for dark matter.

Speaker: Kevin Gonzalez Quesada (Case Western Reserve University)

Gamma Lines and DM from anomaly cancellation BLV 2024.pdf

12:15 PM Not-so-inelastic Dark Matter (17'+3')

Models of inelastic (or pseudo-Dirac) Dark Matter (DM) commonly assume an accidental symmetry between the left-handed and right-handed mass terms in order to suppress diagonal couplings. We point out that this symmetry is unnecessary, because for Majorana fermions the diagonal couplings are not strongly constrained. Removing the requirement of such an accidental ad-hoc symmetry instead relaxes the relic density constraint due to additional annihilation modes.

In the talk, I will introduce a simple UV-complete model realizing the new asymmetric set-up. Then, I will explain how traditional constraints from (in)direct detection, beam dump experiments and colliders are modified indicating two viable mass regions for the DM particle, around a few hundred MeV and around a few GeV. The former region will be fully tested by near-future analyses of NA64 and Belle II data, while the latter turns out to be challenging to explore even with future experiments.

Speaker: Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia (IAP - KIT)

BLV - niDM - 16 min presentation HEP-expth Public.pdf

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Baryogenesis mechanisms: 2

2:00 PM Electroweak Baryogenesis (25'+5')

Speaker: Marieke Postma (Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

BLV.pdf

2:30 PM Tracking Minima, Phase Transitions and Gravitational Waves with BSMPTv3 (17'+3')

Speaker: Lisa Biermann (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

lbiermann_blv24.pdf

2:50 PM Gravitational Particle Production and Leptogenesis (25'+5')

Speaker: Yuber F Perez-Gonzalez (IPPP, Durham University)

YFPG_BLV2024.pdf

3:20 PM Impact of Non-Standard Interactions on Low-Scale Leptogenesis and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (17'+3')

In this talk, we investigate the interplay between the observation of lepton number violating processes and the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe via low-scale leptogenesis. We focus on the impact of non-standard interactions, beyond the usual Majorana mass term, on the observation of neutrinoless double beta decay and the resulting parameter space for successful leptogenesis. Parameterizing these effects in a model independent way, we showcase how additional operators can influence the final baryon asymmetry.

Speaker: Sascha Weber (JGU Mainz)

BLV2024.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:10 PM Coffee break

4:10 PM → 5:40 PM B and L violation at current or future colliders: 2

4:10 PM Review of Left-Right Symmetry and its Experimental Signatures (25'+5')

Speaker: Miha Nemevšek (Jožef Stefan Institute)

LeftRight_ExpSignals.pdf

4:40 PM Quasi-Dirac HNLs in the Left-Right Symmetric Model (17'+3')

A quasi-Dirac pair of Heavy Neutral Leptons possesses a number of features that make it an appealing target for search in the GeV mass scale at future collider experiments. This scenario is studied in the Left-Right Symmetric Model. Predictions for the HNL couplings to different lepton flavors are derived, and the possible probes of the model based on the LNV signature are considered.

Speaker: Oleksii Mikulenko (Leiden University)

Mikulenko_BLV_Karlsruhe_10_10_2024.pdf

5:00 PM Probing Light Sterile Neutrinos in Left-Right Symmetric Models with Displaced Vertices and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (17'+3')

An investigation of relatively light (GeV-scale), long-lived right-handed neutrinos is performed within minimal left-right symmetric models using the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework. Light sterile neutrinos can be produced through rare decays of kaons, $D$-mesons, and $B$-mesons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) of Fermilab. Their decays could result in displaced vertices, which can be reconstructed. By performing Monte-Carlo simulations, we assess the sensitivities of the future LHC far-detector experiments ANUBIS, CODEX-b, FACET, FASER(2), MoEDAL-MAPP1(2), MATHUSLA, the recently approved beam-dump experiment SHiP, and the upcoming neutrino experiment DUNE at the LBNF, to the right-handed gauge-boson mass $M_{W_R}$ as functions of neutrino masses. We find that DUNE and SHiP could be sensitive to right-handed gauge-boson masses up to $\sim 25$ TeV. We compare this reach to indirect searches such as neutrinoless double beta decay, finding that displaced-vertex searches are very competitive.

Speaker: Jelle Groot (University of Amsterdam)

BLVtalkJelleGroot.pdf

5:20 PM Left-Right Symmetric Model with Double Seesaw Mechanism: Its LNV and LFV Imprints (17'+3')

Speaker: Prativa Pritimita (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

LRSM_Double_seesaw_BLV2024 (2).pdf

Friday, October 11

9:00 AM → 9:25 AM Baryon number violating processes: 3

9:00 AM Novel Proton Decay Signatures (20'+5')

Speaker: Herbert Dreiner (University of Bonn)

Dreiner-Proton-Decay-BLV-Karlsruhe-10-2024 copy.pdf

9:25 AM → 10:35 AM Lepton number violation in low energy processes: 1

9:25 AM Review of Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiments (25'+5')

Speaker: Julieta Gruszko (UNC Chapel Hill/TUNL)

Gruszko_BLV_DBD_overview.pdf

9:55 AM Exploring neutrinoless double beta decay with the DARWIN observatory (17'+3')

Speaker: Dr Jose Cuenca Garcia (University of Zurich)

BLV_NeutLessDbd_Cuenca_2024_v2.pdf

10:15 AM Neutrinoless double-beta decay phenomenology (17'+3')

Speaker: Jing-Yu Zhu

BLV2024_JYZ.pdf

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee break

11:05 AM → 12:05 PM Lepton number violation in low energy processes: 2

11:05 AM Lepton Number Violation and Neutrino Masses in $N_R$SMEFT (17'+3')

In this talk, we discuss tree-level UV completions for dimension 6 and 7 operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory extended with right-handed neutrinos ($N_R$SMEFT). We reveal that every model generating lepton number violating (LNV) operators with right-handed neutrinos also leads to the formation of active neutrino masses. This intrinsic connection between LNV processes and the existence of Majorana masses for SM neutrinos allows us to derive constraints on dimension 7 operators from the observed neutrino masses. Importantly, we demonstrate that these operators may not always be suppressed, suggesting their potential observability in future experiments.

Speaker: Rebeca Beltrán (IFIC - University of Valencia and CSIC (Spain))

Beltran_BLV24.pdf

11:25 AM Hunting for Two Right-Handed Neutrinos at Low Scales (17'+3')

The addition of two gauge singlet right-handed neutrinos to the Standard Model is a minimal extension that can potentially solve multiple open questions at once, including the observed neutrino masses via the Type-I seesaw mechanism, and the baryon asymmetry of the universe via leptogenesis. We show that combining the constraints from low-scale leptogenesis and the current non-observation of neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) proves to be a powerful complement to the limits obtained from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and collider searches in order to constrain the masses and mixings of heavy neutrinos. Improved limits on $0\nu \beta\beta$ from next-generation experiments will restrict the allowed parameter space to narrow bands in the mass-mixing plane in case of inverted neutrino mass ordering, which could be probed by future collider programs, making such models with MeV-GeV range heavy neutrinos fully testable.

Speaker: Vaisakh Plakkot

Plakkot_BLV.pdf

11:45 AM Searching for LNV in Rare Meson Decays (17'+3')

We investigate the possibility of disentangling different new physics contributions to the rare meson decays $K\rightarrow\pi+$invisible and $B\rightarrow K(K^*)+$invisible through kinematic distributions in the missing invariant mass squared. We employ dimension-$6$ operators within the Low-Energy Effective Field Theory (LEFT), identifying the invisible part of the final state as either active or sterile neutrinos. Special emphasis is given to lepton-number violating (LNV) operators. We show analytically that contributions from vector, scalar, and tensor quark currents can be uniquely determined from experimental data of kinematic distributions. As there could a priori also be new invisible particles in the final states, we include dark-sector operators giving rise to two dark scalars, fermions, or vectors in the final state. We show that careful measurements of kinematic distributions make it theoretically possible to disentangle the contribution from LEFT operators from most of the dark-sector operators, even when multiple operators are contributing. Finally, we point out that an excess in rare meson decays consistent with a LNV hypothesis would point towards highly flavor non-democratic physics in the UV, and could put high-scale leptogenesis under tension.

Speaker: Martin Mojahed (JGU/ TUM)

BLV24_Mojahed.pdf

12:05 PM → 12:35 PM Concluding Talk (25'+5')

Speaker: Prof. Silvia Pascoli

4_BLV_Concluding_Pascoli.pdf

12:35 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM KATRIN excursion