Future prospects for neutrinoless double-beta decay

TL;DR

This paper discusses future experimental efforts to detect neutrinoless double-beta decay, which could reveal fundamental properties of neutrinos and lepton number violation, emphasizing the need for large, low-background detectors.

Contribution

It provides an overview of upcoming experiments and their expected sensitivities in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay.

Findings

Projected sensitivities of future experiments

Importance of large source mass and low background

Potential to confirm Majorana nature of neutrinos

Abstract

The study of neutrinoless double-beta decay plays a fundamental role in the understanding of neutrino physics. Its observation would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles and that lepton number is not conserved. Experimental searches demand detectors with a very large source mass and extremely low background. We report on planned future experimental searches and discuss their expected sensitivities.