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We investigate the two-port scattering process in non-Hermitian dimer models via quantum measurements using external leads. We focus on two exemplary dimer models that preserve parity-time symmetry via spatial gain-loss balance and exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jung-Wan Ryu , Henning Schomerus , Hee Chul Park

Study of the neutrinoless double beta decay, $0\nu\beta\beta$, includes a variety of problems of nuclear structure theory. They are reviewed here. The problems range from the mechanism of the decay, i.e. exchange of the light Majorana…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Petr Vogel

We present the first chiral effective theory derivation of the neutrinoless double beta-decay $nn\rightarrow pp$ potential induced by light Majorana neutrino exchange. The effective-field-theory framework has allowed us to identify and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 V. Cirigliano , W. Dekens , E. Mereghetti , A. Walker-Loud

By making use of the isospin conservation by strong interaction, the Fermi $0\nu\beta\beta$ nuclear matrix element $M_{F}^{0\nu}$ is transformed to acquire the form of an energy-weighted double Fermi transition matrix element. This useful…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Vadim Rodin , Amand Faessler

The two Gamow-Teller (GT) branches connecting the double-beta decay partners (116Cd, 116Sn) and (150Nd, 150Sm) with the intermediate nuclei 116In and 150Pm are studied within a microscopic approach based on a deformed proton-neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 D. Navas-Nicolas , P. Sarriguren

Nonuniform neutron-rich matter present in both core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star crusts is described in terms of a semiclassical model that reproduces nuclear-matter properties and includes long-range Coulomb interactions. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Perez-Garcia , J. Carriere , D. K. Berry , J. Piekarewicz

The excitation of electron shell of a daughter atom in a neutrinoless double $\beta$-decay causes change in shape of the total energy peak of $\beta$ electrons at the end of the energy spectrum. The main parameters of the modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 K. S. Tyrin , M. I. Krivoruchenko

The existing calculations of the nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta-decay differ by about a factor three. This uncertainty prevents quantative interpretation of the results of experiments searching for this process. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky , J. A. Grifols

A method for calculation of Gamow-Teller transition rates is developed by using the concept of the Projected Shell Model (PSM). The shell model basis is constructed by superimposing angular-momentum-projected multi-quasiparticle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zao-Chun Gao , Yang Sun , Y. -S. Chen

Background: Proton elastic scattering at intermediate energy is widely employed as a tool for determining the matter radius of atomic nuclei. The sensitivity of the approach relies on high-resolution measurements at small scattering angles…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 J. C. Zamora

The extractions of nuclear charge radii from muonic atom spectroscopy for $^{40}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb are revisited to analyze the model dependencies induced by employing a Fermi-type charge distribution. For that, the charge densities,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Hui Hui Xie , Tomoya Naito , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang

The neutrinoless double beta decay is a pivotal weak nuclear process that holds the potential to unveil the Majorana nature of neutrinos and predict their absolute masses. In this study, we delve into examining the impact of spin-dependent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-05 S. Sarkar , Y. Iwata

Working with Hamiltonians from chiral effective field theory, we develop a novel framework for describing arbitrary deformed medium-mass nuclei by combining the in-medium similarity renormalization group with the generator coordinate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 J. M. Yao , B. Bally , J. Engel , R. Wirth , T. R. Rodríguez , H. Hergert

Four nuclei which are proved to be $2\nu\beta\beta$ emitters ($^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{150}$Nd, $^{238}$U), and four suspected, due to the corresponding Q-values, to have this property ($^{148}$Nd, $^{154}$Sm, $^{160}$Gd, $^{232}$Th), were…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Raduta , A. Escuderos , A. Faessler , E. Moya de Guerra , P. Sarriguren

We show that deep inelastic neutron scattering from hydrogen(or other light nuclei) can be used to measure a spectrum of anharmonic contributions to the target atom momentum distribution with high and known accuracy . The method is applied…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Reiter , J. Mayers , J. Noreland

The equation of motion for the two-fermion two-time correlation function in the pairing channel is considered at finite temperature. Within the Matsubara formalism, the Dyson-type Bethe-Salpeter equation (Dyson-BSE) with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Elena Litvinova , Peter Schuck

The nuclear matrix elements $M^{0\nu}$ of the neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of most nuclei with known $2\nu\beta\beta$-decay rates are systematically evaluated using the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Vadim Rodin , Amand Faessler , Fedor Simkovic , Petr Vogel

In the framework of the see-saw mechanism the normal hierarchy is favorable for the neutrino mass spectrum. For this spectrum we present a detailed calculation of the half-lives of neutrinoless double beta decay for several nuclei of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. M. Bilenky , A. Faessler , T. Gutsche , F. Simkovic

We investigate neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in minimal extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics where gauge-singlet right-handed neutrinos give rise to Dirac and Majorana neutrino mass terms. We argue that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-28 W. Dekens , J. de Vries , D. Castillo , J. Menéndez , E. Mereghetti , V. Plakkot , P. Soriano , G. Zhou

We use the generator-coordinate method with realistic shell-model interactions to closely approximate full shell-model calculations of the matrix elements for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{48}$Ca, $^{76}$Ge, and $^{82}$Se. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 C. F. Jiao , J. Engel , J. D. Holt