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Title: Ab initio studies of the double–Gamow-Teller transition and its correlation with neutrinoless double- β decay

Journal Article · · Physical Review. C
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  1. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Zhuhai (China); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University
  2. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  3. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada); Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  4. Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany); GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
  5. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  6. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
  7. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada); McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont IL (United States)

Here, we use chiral interactions and several ab initio methods to compute the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for ground-state-to-ground-state double Gamow-Teller transitions in a range of isotopes and explore the correlation of these NMEs with those for neutrinoless double beta decay produced by the exchange of a light Majorana neutrino. When all the NMEs of both isospin-conserving and isospin-changing transitions from the ab initio calculations are considered, the correlation is strong. For the experimentally relevant isospin-changing transitions by themselves, however, the correlation is weaker and may not be helpful for reducing the uncertainty in the NMEs for neutrinoless double beta decay.

Research Organization:
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Natural Science Foundation of China; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; FG02-97ER41014; FG02-97ER41019; SC0015376; SC0017887; SC0018083
OSTI ID:
1962724
Journal Information:
Physical Review. C, Journal Name: Physical Review. C Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 106; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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