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Coupled-cluster calculations of neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{48}$Ca

Nuclear Theory 2021-05-14 v3

Abstract

We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 48^{48}Ca. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light nuclei inform us about the accuracy of our approach. For 48^{48}Ca we find a relatively small matrix element. We also compute the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-beta decay of 48^{48}Ca with a quenching factor deduced from two-body currents in recent ab-initio calculation of the Ikeda sum-rule in 48^{48}Ca [Gysbers et al., Nature Physics 15, 428-431 (2019)].

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@article{arxiv.2008.09696,
  title  = {Coupled-cluster calculations of neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{48}$Ca},
  author = {S. J. Novario and P. Gysbers and J. Engel and G. Hagen and G. R. Jansen and T. D. Morris and P. Navrátil and T. Papenbrock and S. Quaglioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09696},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 13 figures; Version accepted for publication, Supplemental material also updated