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The neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay process could provide crucial information to determine the absolute scale of the neutrino masses, and it is the only one that can establish whether neutrino is a Dirac or a Majorana…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Mihai Horoi , 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

We use diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory in combination with low-momentum interactions derived from chiral effective field theory to construct effective shell-model transition operators for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-23 Jason D. Holt , Jonathan Engel

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

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 calculations of nuclear matrix elements of $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay is a challenge for nuclear physics. We are discussing here a model independent method, which could allow to test the calculations. The method is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bilenky

We used a high-resolution magnetic spectrograph to study neutron pair-correlated $0^+$ states in $^{136}$Ba, produced via the $^{138}{\rm Ba}(p,t)$ reaction. In conjunction with state-of-the-art shell model calculations, these data…

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 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

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

We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{48}$Ca. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light…

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 apply the shell-model wave-functions of $^{76}Ge$ to calculate the nuclear matrix elements and the half-life of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}Ge$. Our result is comparable to the recent observed $2\nu\beta\beta$-decay half-life of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hui-fang Wu , Tao Huang

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

Neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is related to many fundamental concepts in nuclear and particle physics beyond the standard model. Currently there are many experiments searching for this weak process. An accurate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 L. S. Song , J. M. Yao , P. Ring , J. Meng

We report a systematic study of nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) in neutrinoless double-beta decays with a state-of-the-art beyond mean-field covariant density functional theory. The dynamic effects of particle-number and angular-momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-10 J. M. Yao , L. S. Song , K. Hagino , P. Ring , J. Meng

We report on the calculation of the neutrinoless double-beta decay nuclear matrix element for 76Ge within the framework of the realistic shell model. The effective shell-model Hamiltonian and the two-body transition operator describing the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Nunzio Itaco , Luigi Coraggio , Riccardo Mancino

Two-neutrino double-beta-decay matrix elements $M_{2\nu}$ and single beta-decay branching ratios were calculated for $^{48}$Ca and $^{96}$Zr in the interacting nuclear shell model using large single-particle valence spaces with well-tested…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Joel Kostensalo , Jouni Suhonen

The neutrinoless double beta decay is analyzed using a general Lorentz invariant effective Lagrangian for various decaying nuclei of current experimental interest: $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{100}$Mo, $^{130}$Te, and $^{136}$Xe. We work out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Ali , A. V. Borisov , D. V. Zhuridov

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