Bulletin of the American Physical Society
5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 63, Number 12
Tuesday–Saturday, October 23–27, 2018; Waikoloa, Hawaii
Session EG: Nuclear Structure A=100-140
7:00 PM–9:30 PM,
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Hilton
Room: King's 3
Chair: Kathrin Wimmer, The University of Tokyo
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.HAW.EG.8
Abstract: EG.00008 : Neutrinoless double-beta decay rates around mass 130 in the nuclear shell model
8:45 PM–9:00 PM
Presenter:
Ai Uehara
(Department of Physics, Saitama University)
Authors:
Ai Uehara
(Department of Physics, Saitama University)
Naotaka Yoshinaga
(Department of Physics, Saitama University)
Kota Yanase
(Department of Physics, Saitama University)
Chinatsu Watanabe
(Department of Physics, Saitama University)
The double beta decay is a second order process of the weak interaction which converts two neutrons into two protons. There are possibly two modes of the double-beta decay. The 0ν mode (0νββ), in which no neutrinos and only two electrons are emitted, can only take place if the neutrino is a massive Majorana particle. It demands an extension of the Standard Model since it violates the lepton number conservation. Thus, the observation of the 0νββ decay is considered as one of the best probes for physics beyond the Standard Model. Despite intensive experimental efforts the 0νββ decay has not yet been observed. The 0νββ decay half-life is given by a phase-space factor, the effective mass of the electron neutrino, and the nuclear matrix element (NME). Our attention is focused on calculating the NMEs. Many theoretical attempts have been made to calculate the NMEs and the resulting half-lives. We carry out the nuclear shell model calculations for nuclei with mass 136 and 130. Energy levels and transition rates are compared with the experimental data. Using the wave functions thus obtained, nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double-beta decay are estimated. It turns out that the nuclear matrix elements are sensitive to the ground state correlations.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.HAW.EG.8
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