Re: Query on Neutrinoless Double Beta decay.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

I have a five cent bet with one of my colleagues that the claims of
neutrinoless double-beta decay will "go away".  The bet comes after my
reading of the paper.  My view is based on experience and intuition,
developed over a half-century of evaluating experimentalists' claims.

My advice.  A good experiment really grabs you when you look at the
experimental details.
                                        Regards,
                                                Jack

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Robert B Zannelli wrote:

> In a message dated 4/5/02 2:32:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV
> writes:
>
> << Check Georgi's book on weak interactions.  Link at:
>  http://www.hep.anl.gov/theory >>
> Thank you Jack for the link though I can't seem to get it to work right now.
> I'll try again later. Meanwhile, do you, or anyone else on this list
> interested in this topic, have any opinion concerning the claims of
> Klaper-Kleingrothaus, Dietz, Harney and Krivosheina published in Mod. Phy.
> Lett. 16 2409 (2001) which claims to have observed neutrinoless double beta
> decay. This claim is refuted in the paper "Comment On Evidence For
> Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" ( hep-ex/0202018 vl 7 Feb 2002) by authors
> too numerous to list?
>
> Bob Zannelli

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