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Title: Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ca 48

Abstract

We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-$$\beta$$ decay of $$^{48}$$Ca. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light nuclei inform us about the accuracy of our approach. For $$^{48}$$Ca we find a relatively small matrix element. We also compute the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-$$\beta$$ decay of $$^{48}$$Ca with a quenching factor deduced from two-body currents in recent ab initio calculation of the Ikeda sum rule in $$^{48}$$Ca [Gysbers et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 428 (2019)].

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6]; ORCiD logo [7]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [8]
  1. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  3. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS)
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  7. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  8. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1782660
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1784160; OSTI ID: 1814094; OSTI ID: 1825445
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-814108; LA-UR-21-22076
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; TRN: US2210032
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-96ER40963; FG02-97ER41019; SC0008499; AC52-07NA27344; AC05-00OR22725; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 126; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Double beta decay; Neutrinoless double beta decay; Nuclear many-body theory; Nuclear structure & decays

Citation Formats

Novario, S. J., Gysbers, P., Engel, J., Hagen, G., Jansen, G.  R., Morris, T.  D., Navrátil, P., Papenbrock, T., and Quaglioni, S. Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ca 48. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.182502.
Novario, S. J., Gysbers, P., Engel, J., Hagen, G., Jansen, G.  R., Morris, T.  D., Navrátil, P., Papenbrock, T., & Quaglioni, S. Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ca 48. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.182502
Novario, S. J., Gysbers, P., Engel, J., Hagen, G., Jansen, G.  R., Morris, T.  D., Navrátil, P., Papenbrock, T., and Quaglioni, S. Fri . "Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ca 48". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.182502. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1782660.
@article{osti_1782660,
title = {Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ca 48},
author = {Novario, S. J. and Gysbers, P. and Engel, J. and Hagen, G. and Jansen, G.  R. and Morris, T.  D. and Navrátil, P. and Papenbrock, T. and Quaglioni, S.},
abstractNote = {We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}$Ca. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light nuclei inform us about the accuracy of our approach. For $^{48}$Ca we find a relatively small matrix element. We also compute the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}$Ca with a quenching factor deduced from two-body currents in recent ab initio calculation of the Ikeda sum rule in $^{48}$Ca [Gysbers et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 428 (2019)].},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.126.182502},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 18,
volume = 126,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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