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A note on directed 4-cycles in digraphs
Using some combinatorial techniques, in this note, it is proved that if
, then any digraph on vertices with minimum outdegree
at least contains a directed cycle of length at most 4
Majorana Neutrino Masses from Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decays and Lepton-Number-Violating Meson Decays
The Schechter-Valle theorem states that a positive observation of
neutrinoless double-beta () decays implies a finite Majorana
mass term for neutrinos when any unlikely fine-tuning or cancellation is
absent. In this note, we reexamine the quantitative impact of the
Schechter-Valle theorem, and find that current experimental lower limits on the
half-lives of -decaying nuclei have placed a restrictive
upper bound on the Majorana neutrino mass radiatively generated at the four-loop level. Furthermore,
we generalize this quantitative analysis of decays to that
of the lepton-number-violating (LNV) meson decays (for , = or ). Given the
present upper limits on these rare LNV decays, we have derived the loop-induced
Majorana neutrino masses ,
and from ,
and ,
respectively. A partial list of radiative neutrino masses from the LNV decays
of , and mesons is also given.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, clarification added and references updated, Phys.
Lett. B in pres
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