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Nuclear deformation and the double-beta decay

Journal Article · · Physics of Atomic Nuclei
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1772462· OSTI ID:20596752
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  1. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik der Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen (Germany)
  2. Department of Nuclear Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia)
The effect of deformation on the two-neutrino double-beta decay (2{nu}{beta}{beta} decay) for ground-state transition {sup 76}Ge {yields} {sup 76}Se is studied in the framework of the deformed QRPA with separable Gamow-Teller residual interaction. A new suppression mechanism of the 2{nu}{beta}{beta}-decay matrix element based on the difference in deformations of the initial and final nuclei is reported. An advantage of this suppression mechanism in comparison with that associated with ground-state correlations is that it allows a simultaneous description of the single-{beta} and the 2{nu}{beta}{beta} decay.
OSTI ID:
20596752
Journal Information:
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Journal Name: Physics of Atomic Nuclei Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 67; ISSN 1063-7788; ISSN PANUEO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English