Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Light of JUNO First Data

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how JUNO's initial neutrino oscillation data refines the understanding of neutrinoless double beta decay, reducing uncertainties and exploring implications for neutrino mass and CP phases.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of how JUNO data impacts the predictions and constraints on neutrinoless double beta decay and neutrino mass parameters.

Findings

Uncertainties in effective mass lower and upper limits are significantly reduced.

The probability of the 'funnel' region with very small effective mass increases.

Constraints from cosmological data influence the complex plane distribution of effective mass.

Abstract

The first results from the JUNO reactor neutrino oscillation experiment improve our knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing parameters, especially the solar angle $\theta_s \equiv \theta_{12}$ and the solar mass squared difference $\Delta m^2_s \equiv \Delta m^2_{21}$. We discuss the implications of these results on neutrinoless double beta decay by itself and in combination with the global fit of neutrino oscillation experiments, the JUNO first data, and cosmological constraints on the neutrino mass sum. For the effective mass $\langle m_{ee} \rangle$, the uncertainties in its lower limits for both mass orderings and upper limits for the normal ordering are largely reduced. Since the cosmological CMB and DESI BAO data put a stringent constraint on the neutrino mass scale, we also show how the probability distribution of both the real and imaginary parts of the effective mass $\langle m_{ee} \rangle$ on the complex plane is affected. Especially, the funnel region with $|\langle m_{ee} \rangle| \lesssim 1$\,meV receives larger chance to happen. Correspondingly, the chance of determining the two Majorana CP phases simultaneously in this region also increases with reduced uncertainty.