TY - JOUR
T1 - Nuclear Structure for Double Beta Decay
AU - Horoi, Mihai
N1 - Funding Information:
Support from the NUCLEI SciDAC Collaboration under U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0008529, the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-SC0015376, and the U.S. NSF Grant No. PHY-1404442 is acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2018/2/22
Y1 - 2018/2/22
N2 - Neutrinoless double-beta decay, if observed, would signal physics beyond the Standard Model that would be discovered at energies significantly lower than those at which the relevant degrees of freedom can be excited. Accurate nuclear structure calculation of the nuclear matrix elements (NME) necessary to analyze the decay rates could be helpful to narrow down the list of competing mechanisms, and to better identify the more exotic properties of the neutrinos. In this paper we present and analyze the status of the NME shell model calculations, and their relevance for discriminating the possible competing mechanisms that may contribute to the neutrinoless double-beta decay process.
AB - Neutrinoless double-beta decay, if observed, would signal physics beyond the Standard Model that would be discovered at energies significantly lower than those at which the relevant degrees of freedom can be excited. Accurate nuclear structure calculation of the nuclear matrix elements (NME) necessary to analyze the decay rates could be helpful to narrow down the list of competing mechanisms, and to better identify the more exotic properties of the neutrinos. In this paper we present and analyze the status of the NME shell model calculations, and their relevance for discriminating the possible competing mechanisms that may contribute to the neutrinoless double-beta decay process.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/966/1/012009
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/966/1/012009
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85043297874
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 966
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012009
T2 - 12th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics: Current Problems and Prospects for Nuclear Structure
Y2 - 15 May 2017 through 19 May 2017
ER -