Nuclear Structure Aspects of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Nuclear Theory
2015-06-23 v1
Abstract
We decompose the neutrinoless double-beta decay matrix elements into sums of products over the intermediate nucleus with two less nucleons. We find that the sum is dominated by the J^pi=0^+ ground state of this intermediate nucleus for both the light and heavy neutrino decay processes. This provides a new theoretical tool for comparing and improving nuclear structure models. It also provides the connection to two-nucleon transfer experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1409.7364,
title = {Nuclear Structure Aspects of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay},
author = {B. A. Brown and M. Horoi and R. A. Sen'kov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7364},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures