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The evaluation of the nuclear matrix elements (NME) of the two-neutrino double beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay and neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay using the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jouni Suhonen

We calculate nuclear matrix elements (NME) of neutrinoless double beta decay in four different candidate nuclei (Ge-76, Se-82, Mo-100, Te-130) within the quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA) and its uncertainties. We assume (up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-25 Amand Faessler , G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. M. Rotunno , F. Simkovic

The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear decay, which can be used for determining the neutrino-mass scale. The scheme to use this decay for determining the neutrino-mass scale is one of few limited methods…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 J. Terasaki

We recently proposed a new method to calculate the standard nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of ${}^{48}$Ca going beyond the closure approximation. Here we extend this analysis to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 R. A. Sen'kov , M. Horoi , B. A. Brown

Two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay has been used to constrain the neutron-proton part of effective interactions, which in turn is used to compute the nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay, the observation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Nobuo Hinohara , Jonathan Engel

The calculated nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay suffer from several limitations. Predicted matrix-element values depend on the many-body method used to calculate them and, in addition, they…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Javier Menéndez

We have proposed in a series of previous papers a method to determine the effective axial-vector current coupling and the strength of the isoscalar proton-neutron pairing interaction for calculating the nuclear matrix elements of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 J. Terasaki , Y. Iwata

We investigate a novel method of accurate calculation of the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay shell-model nuclear matrix elements for the experimentally relevant case of $^{76}$Ge. We demonstrate that with the new method the nuclear matrix…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 R. A. Sen'kov , M. Horoi

In this article we present a more detailed version of our recent Rapid Communication [Phys. Rev. C 90, 051301(R) (2014)] where we calculate the nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of $^{76}$Ge. For the calculations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 R. A. Sen'kov , M. Horoi

We present an ab initio study of the correlation between nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay and nucleon-nucleon scattering phase shifts in the $^1S_0$ channel. Starting from thirty-four…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 A. Belley , J. Pitcher , T. Miyagi , S. R. Stroberg , J. D. Holt

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a crucial test for lepton number violation. Observation of this process would have fundamental implications for neutrino physics, theories beyond the Standard Model and cosmology.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-01 Frank F. Deppisch , Lukas Graf , Francesco Iachello , Jenni Kotila

Accurate nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for neutrinoless double beta decays of candidate nuclei are important for the design and interpretation of future experiments. Significant progress has been made in the modeling of these NMEs from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-12 J. M. Yao

The nuclear transition matrix elements $M^{(0\nu)}$ for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{94,96}$Zr, $^{98,100}$Mo, $^{104}$Ru, $^{110}$Pd, $^{128,130}$Te and $^{150}$Nd isotopes in the case of $0^{+}\rightarrow 0^{+}$ transition are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 P. K. Rath , R. Chandra , K. Chaturvedi , P. K. Raina , J. G. Hirsch

In this study, we calculate the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for the light neutrino-exchange mechanism of neutrinoless double beta $0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{124}$Sn within the framework of the interacting nuclear shell model using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-03-05 Shahariar Sarkar , P. K. Rath , V. Nanal , R. G. Pillay , Pushpendra P. Singh , Y. Iwata , K. Jha , P. K. Raina

Employing four different parametrization of the pairing plus multipolar type of effective two-body interaction and three different parametrizations of Jastrow-type of short range correlations, the uncertainties in the nuclear transition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 P. K. Rath , R. Chandra , P. K. Raina , K. Chaturvedi , J. G. Hirsch

A microscopic state-of-the-art calculation of the nuclear matrix element for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{150}$Nd with an account for nuclear deformation is performed. The proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Dong-Liang Fang , Amand Faessler , Vadim Rodin , Fedor Simkovic

The nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay for nuclei $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{100}$Mo, $^{130}$Te, and $^{150}$Nd are studied within the triaxial projected shell model, which incorporates simultaneously the triaxial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Y. K. Wang , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

We evaluate all nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) up to next-to-next-to leading order (N$^2$LO) in chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) for the neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of the nuclei most relevant for experiments,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Castillo , Lotta Jokiniemi , Pablo Soriano , Javier Menéndez

We analyse the effects that different nuclear structure approximations associated with the short range correlations (SRC), finite nucleon size (FNS), higher order terms in the nucleon currents (HOC) and with some nuclear input parameters,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrei Neacsu , Sabin Stoica

Here, we study the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay between the ground state and the first $2^+$ state of $^{76}\mbox{Ge} \rightarrow {}^{76}\mbox{Se}$, $^{82}\mbox{Se} \rightarrow{}^{82}\mbox{Kr}$, $^{130}\mbox{Te}…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-06 J. Ferretti , R. Magana Vsevolodovna , J. Kotila , E. Santopinto