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The possibility of observing neutrinoless double beta decay offers the opportunity of determining the effective neutrino mass if the nuclear matrix element were known. Theoretical calculations are uncertain and the occupations of valence…

We present a master formula describing the neutrinoless-double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) rate induced by lepton-number-violating (LNV) operators up to dimension nine in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. We provide an end-to-end…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-24 V. Cirigliano , W. Dekens , J. de Vries , M. L. Graesser , E. Mereghetti

Nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for two-neutrino double-beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$) are studied in the framework of relativistic nuclear energy density functional (REDF). The properties of nuclei involved in the decay are obtained using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 N. Popara , A. Ravlić , N. Paar

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

The experimental pursuit of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) constitutes one of the most compelling avenues for probing lepton-number violation and exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. Within this landscape,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Mihai Horoi , Andrei Neacsu

We present an extensive study of nuclear matrix elements (NME) for the neutrinoless double beta decay of the nuclei $^{48}$Ca, $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{96}$Zr, $^{100}$Mo, $^{116}$Cd, $^{124}$Sn, $^{128}$Te, $^{130}$Te, $^{136}$Xe, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-28 Tomás R. Rodríguez , G. Martinez-Pinedo

The theoretical and experimental issues relevant to neutrinoless double-beta decay are reviewed. The impact that a direct observation of this exotic process would have on elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Frank T. Avignone , Steven R. Elliott , Jonathan Engel

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

The relativistic configuration-interaction density functional theory is developed for even-even and odd-odd nuclei and is used to predict the nuclear matrix element of the neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay in nucleus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Y. K. Wang , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

We discuss some phenomenological issues of the effective quark-lepton operators emerging from the bilinear lepton-Higgs couplings in the superpotential and in the soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking sector of the supersymmetric models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Amand Faessler , Sergey Kovalenko , Fedor Simkovic

The effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double decay (2nbb-decay) for ground state transition 76Ge -> 76Se is studied in the framework of the deformed QRPA with separable Gamow-Teller residual interaction. A new suppression mechanism…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Fedor Simkovic , Larisa Pacearescu , Amand Faessler

We construct effective two-body Hamiltonians and E2 operators for the p-shell by performing $16\hbar\Omega$ ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) calculations for A=5 and A=6 nuclei and explicitly projecting the many-body Hamiltonians and E2…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 A. F. Lisetskiy , M. K. G. Kruse , B. R. Barrett , P. Navratil , I. Stetcu , J. P. Vary

The motivation for the search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay is briefly reviewed. It is stressed that the exchange of light Majorana neutrinos is not the only possible mechanism of the decay. The link between lepton number and lepton flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-11 Petr Vogel

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a very important process both from the particle and nuclear physics point of view. From the elementary particle point of view it pops up in almost every model. giving rise, among others, to the following…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

A new generation of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments with improved sensitivity is currently under design and construction. They will probe inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass pattern. There is also a revived interest to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Amand Faessler , Vadim Rodin , Fedor Simkovic

Neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay and the standard two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{98}$Mo have been studied. The double-beta decay $Q$-value has been determined as $Q_{\beta\beta}=113.668(68)$ keV…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-30 D. A. Nesterenko , L. Jokiniemi , J. Kotila , A. Kankainen , Z. Ge , T. Eronen , S. Rinta-Antila , J. Suhonen

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most powerful tools to set the neutrino mass absolute scale and establish whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle. After a summary of the neutrinoless double beta decay phenomenology, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Nucciotti

The process at the heart of neutrinoless double-beta decay, $nn \rightarrow p p\, e^- e^-$ induced by a light Majorana neutrino, is investigated in pionless and chiral effective field theory. We show in various regularization schemes the…

Ruling out the inverted neutrino hierarchy with neutrinoless double beta decay experiments is possible if a limit on the effective mass below the minimal theoretically possible value is reached. We stress that this lower limit depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-05 Alexander Dueck , Werner Rodejohann , Kai Zuber

Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a forbidden, lepton-number-violating nuclear transition whose observation would have fundamental implications for neutrino physics, theories beyond the Standard Model and cosmology. In this review, we…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-05 Michelle J. Dolinski , Alan W. P. Poon , Werner Rodejohann