Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-β decay of Xe136

Szwec, S. V.; Kay, B. P.; Cocolios, T. E.; Entwisle, J. P.; Freeman, S. J.; Gaffney, L. P.; Guimaraes, V.; Hammache, F.; McKee, P. P.; Parr, E.; Portail, C.; Schiffer, J. P.; de Sereville, N.; Sharp, D. K.; Smith, J. F.; Stefan, I.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314

Title: Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of ${}^{136}{Xe}$

Journal Article · Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314· OSTI ID:1341012

Szwec, S. V. ^[1]; Kay, B. P. ^[2]; Cocolios, T. E. ^[3]; Entwisle, J. P. ^[1]; Freeman, S. J. ^[1]; Gaffney, L. P. ^[4]; Guimaraes, V. ^[5]; Hammache, F. ^[6]; McKee, P. P. ^[4]; Parr, E. ^[4]; Portail, C. ^[6]; Schiffer, J. P. ^[2]; de Sereville, N. ^[6]; Sharp, D. K. ^[1]; Smith, J. F. ^[4]; Stefan, I. ^[6]

Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom); Instituut voor Kern -en Stralingsfysica, Leuven (Belgium)
Univ. of the West of Scotland, Paisley (United Kingdom)
Univ. de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex (France)

Here, a quantitative description of the change in ground-state neutron occupancies between ¹³⁶Xe and ¹³⁶Ba, the initial and final state in the neutrinoless double-β decay of ¹³⁶Xe, has been extracted from precision measurements of the cross sections of single-neutron-adding and -removing reactions. Comparisons are made to recent theoretical calculations of the same properties using various nuclear-structure models. These are the same calculations used to determine the magnitude of the nuclear matrix elements for the process, which at present disagree with each other by factors of 2 or 3. The experimental neutron occupancies show some disagreement with the theoretical calculations.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

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Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 94, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9985

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