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Reducing uncertainties in the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) remains a critical challenge in designing and interpreting experiments aimed at discovering neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay. Here, we identify a class of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 Yi Li , Xin Zhang , Giuliano Giacalone , Jiangming Yao

We study two-neutrino ($2\nu\beta\beta$) and neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decays in the nuclear shell model and proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) frameworks. Calculating the decay half-life…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-14 Lotta Jokiniemi , Beatriz Romeo , Pablo Soriano , Javier Menéndez

We present a seminal calculation of the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of ${}^{48}\text{Ca} \rightarrow {}^{48}\text{Ti}$ using a post-Hartree-Fock (HF) Density Functional Theory-based…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Jan Miśkiewicz , Maciej Konieczka , Wojciech Satuła

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-25 Amand Faessler , G. L. Fogli , E. Lisi , A. M. Rotunno , F. Simkovic

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

The study of the neutrinoless double beta ($0 \beta\beta$) decay mode can provide us with important information on the neutrino properties, particularly on the electron neutrino absolute mass. In this work we revise the present constraints…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-25 Sabin Stoica , Andrei Neacsu

We perform the calculation of nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double beta decays under a Left-Right symmetric model mediated by light neutrino, and we adopt the spherical quasi-particle random-phase approximation (QRPA)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Ri-Guang Huang , You-Cai Chen , Dong-Liang Fang

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Daniel Castillo , Dorian Frycz , Beatriz Benavente , Javier Menéndez

In this article, we analyze some nuclear structure aspects of the neutrinoless double beta decay nuclear matrix elements (NME), in the framework of the Interacting Shell Model. We give results for the decays of 48Ca, 76Ge, 82Se, 124Sn,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Caurier , F. Nowacki , A. Poves

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

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 report ab initio benchmark calculations of nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decays in light nuclei with mass number ranging from $A=6$ to $A=22$. We use the transition operator derived from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 J. M. Yao , A. Belley , R. Wirth , T. Miyagi , C. G. Payne , S. R. Stroberg , H. Hergert , J. D. Holt

The neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay and the double Gamow-Teller (DGT) transition are investigated with the state-of-the-art Relativistic Configuration-interaction Density functional theory. A strong linear correlation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Y. K. Wang , P. W. Zhao , J. Meng

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 study double gamma ($\gamma\gamma$) decay nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for a wide range of nuclei from titanium to xenon, and explore their relation to neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) NMEs. To favor the comparison, we focus…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 B. Romeo , J. Menéndez , C. Peña

Nuclear matrix elements (NME) for the most promising candidates to detect neutrinoless double beta decay have been computed with energy density functional methods including deformation and pairing fluctuations explicitly on the same…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-06 Nuria López Vaquero , Tomás R. Rodríguez , J. Luis Egido

In this talk I will review the "state of the art" of the calculations of the nuclear matrix elements (NME) of the neutrinoless double beta decays for the nuclei 48Ca, 76Ge, 82Se, 124Sn, 128Te, 130Te and 136Xe in the framework of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-09-15 J. Menendez , A. Poves , E. Caurier , F. Nowacki

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

Nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for two neutrino double beta decays are discussed in terms of the Fermi Surface Quasi-Particle (FSQP) Model. The evaluated NMEs agree with the observed NMEs . The new NMEs for two neutrino double beta decays…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Hiroyasu Ejiri

The nuclear matrix element (NME) of the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is an essential input for determining the neutrino effective mass, if the half-life of this decay is measured. The reliable calculation of this NME…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Terasaki , Y. Iwata