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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…

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We explore the influence of the deformation on the nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decay (NME), concluding that the difference in deformation -or more generally in the amount of quadrupole correlations- between…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 J. Menendez , A. Poves , E. Caurier , F. Nowacki

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

Nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in candidate nuclei play a crucial role in interpreting results from current experiments and in designing future ones. Accurate NME values serve as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-08 C. R. Ding , Gang Li , J. M. Yao

The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of nuclei is one of the major research subjects of neutrino physics nowadays because of its influence on particle physics and astrophysics. The predicted nuclear matrix elements…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 J. Terasaki , O. Civitarese

In the present work, we examine the role of central (C), spin-orbit (SO) and tensor (T) components of two-nucleon interaction in the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) of the two-neutrino double beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$) and the light…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-12 Shahariar Sarkar , Pawan Kumar , Kanhaiya Jha , P. K. Raina

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

We calculate the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for neutrinoless double-beta decays ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $pf$-shell nuclei using the shell model (SM) and energy density functional (EDF) methods. The systematic study of non-physical decays…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-20 Javier Menéndez , Tomas R. Rodríguez , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo , Alfredo Poves

To extract information about the neutrino properties from the study of neutrinoless double-beta (0\nu\beta\beta) decay one needs a precise computation of the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) associated with this process. Approaches based on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-06 Andrei Neacsu , Sabin Stoica , Mihai Horoi

We use the large scale nuclear shell model to calculate the nuclear matrix elements for the neutrino mediated neutrinoless double beta decay within the Left-Right symmetric model for four nuclei: $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{130}$Te and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Dong-Liang Fang , B. Alex Brown , Fedor Šimkovic

We study two-neutrino double-beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$) into first-excited $0^+_2$ states of nuclei used in $\beta\beta$ decay experiments, including $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{130}$Te, and $^{136}$Xe. We calculate the corresponding…

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Background: Neutrinoless double beta decay, if observed, would reveal physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, namely it would prove that neutrinos are Majoran fermions and that the lepton number is not conserved.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-18 Mihai Horoi

We investigate the possibility to discriminate between different pairs of CP non-conserving mechanisms inducing the neutrinoless double beta $\betabeta$-decay by using data on $\betabeta$-decay half-lives of nuclei with largely different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Meroni , S. T. Petcov , F. Simkovic

We evaluate the leading-order short-range nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of the nuclei most relevant for experiments, including $^{76}$Ge, $^{100}$Mo, $^{130}$Te and $^{136}$Xe. In our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-06 Lotta Jokiniemi , Pablo Soriano , Javier Menéndez

Most uncertainties regarding the theoretical study of the neutrinoless double-beta decay are related to the accuracy of the nuclear matrix elements that appear in the expressions of the lifetimes. We calculate the nuclear matrix elements…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrei Neacsu , Mihai Horoi

We calculate the nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decays of $^{76}$Ge and $^{82}$Se for the light-neutrino exchange mechanism. The nuclear wave functions are obtained by using realistic two-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Markus Kortelainen , Jouni Suhonen

Large-scale shell-model calculations have been performed for the study of two neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay in $^{82}$Se, $^{94}$Zr, $^{108}$Cd, $^{124}$Sn, $^{128}$Te, $^{130}$Te, $^{136}$Xe, and $^{150}$Nd. We have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Deepak Patel , Praveen C. Srivastava , V. K. B. Kota , R. Sahu

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

We study in this letter the double beta decay of 136Xe with emission of two neutrinos which has been recently measured by the EXO-200 collaboration. We use the same shell model framework, valence space, and effective interaction that we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Etienne Caurier , Frederic Nowacki , Alfredo Poves

We present converged ab initio calculations of short-range neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay nuclear matrix elements for the key experimental isotopes $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{130}$Te and $^{136}$Xe. Starting from different…

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