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The GERDA experiment searches for the lepton number violating neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{76}$Ge ($^{76}$Ge $\rightarrow$ $^{76}$Se + 2e$^-$) operating bare Ge diodes with an enriched $^{76}$Ge fraction in liquid argon. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-30 M. Agostini , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , J. Biernat , T. Bode , D. Borowicz , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , T. Comellato , V. D'Andrea , E. V. Demidova , N. Di Marco , A. Domula , E. Doroshkevich , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , J. Hakenmüller , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , R. Hiller , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , J. Janicskó Csáthy , J. Jochum , M. Junker , V. Kazalov , Y. Kermaidic , T. Kihm , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Kish , A. Klimenko , R. Kneißl , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , V. V. Kuzminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , M. Miloradovic , R. Mingazheva , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , I. Nemchenok , K. Panas , L. Pandola , K. Pelczar , L. Pertoldi , A. Pullia , C. Ransom , S. Riboldi , N. Rumyantseva , C. Sada , F. Salamida , C. Schmitt , B. Schneider , S. Schönert , A-K. Schütz , O. Schulz , B. Schwingenheuer , O. Selivanenko , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , L. Vanhoefer , A. A. Vasenko , A. Veresnikova , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , A. Wegmann , T. Wester , C. Wiesinger , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , A. Zschocke , A. J. Zsigmond , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

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 present results for the nucleon structure functions and form factors obtained from 2+1 flavor lattice QCD with physical light quark masses ($m_{\pi}=135$ MeV) in a large spatial extent of about 10 fm. Our calculations are performed with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-01-03 Ryutaro Tsuji , Yasumichi Aoki , Ken-Ichi Ishikawa , Yoshinobu Kuramashi , Shoichi Sasaki , Eigo Shintani , Takeshi Yamazaki

Nuclear double beta decay, an extremely rare radioactive decay process, is - in one of its variants - one of the most exciting means of research into particle physics beyond the standard model. The large progress in sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Hans V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , Irina V. Krivosheina

The discovery that neutrinos have finite rest mass has led to renewed interest in neutrinoless double beta decay. The development of large-scale experiments to search for neutrinoless double beta decay has increased the probability of a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-05 S. J. Freeman , J. P. Schiffer

The predicted neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the crucial phenomenon to prove the existence of the Majorana neutrino, which gives a foundation to leptogenesis to explain the matter prevalence of the universe. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Jun Terasaki

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

Detection of the neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is of high priority in the particle- and neutrino-physics communities. The detectability of this decay mode is strongly influenced by the value of the weak axial-vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Jouni Suhonen

We have examined the importance of momentum dependent induced nucleon currents such as weak-magnetism and pseudoscalar couplings to the amplitude of neutrinoless double beta decay in the mechanisms of light and heavy Majorana neutrino as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Simkovic , G. Pantis , J. D. Vergados , A. Faessler

Nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decays of 96Zr, 100Mo, 116Cd, 128Te, 130Te and 136Xe are calculated for the light-neutrino exchange mechanism by using the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation…

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

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 present a detailed discussion on neutrinoless double beta decay $(0\nu \beta \beta)$ within left-right symmetric models based on the gauge symmetry of type $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ as well as $SU(3)_L \times SU(3)_R…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-07 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Sudhanwa Patra

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

After the pioneering work of the Heidelberg-Moscow (HDM) and International Germanium Experiment (IGEX) groups, the second round of neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay searches currently underway has or will improve the life-time limits of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-12-03 Werner Tornow

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…

The double-beta (2$\beta$)-decay is the rarest nuclear physics process, and its experimental half-lives (T$_{1/2}$) exceed the age of the Universe from nine to fourteen orders of magnitude. Double-beta decay was observed, and its half-life…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-26 B. Pritychenko , V. I. Tretyak

We study the renormalization group evolution (RGE) of new physics contributions to (semi)leptonic charged-current meson decays, focusing on operators involving a chirality flip at the quark level. We calculate their evolution under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-02 Martín González-Alonso , Jorge Martin Camalich , Kin Mimouni

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 consider new modes of two-neutrino and neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decays in which one $\beta$ electron goes over to a continuous spectrum and the other occupies a vacant bound level of the daughter ion. We calculate the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Babič , D. Štefánik , M. I. Krivoruchenko , F. Šimkovic

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