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Title: Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double- β decay of Xe 136

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [4];  [4];  [6];  [2];  [6];  [1];  [4];  [6]
  1. Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom); Instituut voor Kern -en Stralingsfysica, Leuven (Belgium)
  4. Univ. of the West of Scotland, Paisley (United Kingdom)
  5. Univ. de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  6. Univ. Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay Cedex (France)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1341012
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1332145
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 94; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
APS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

Citation Formats

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., and Stefan, I. Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-β decay of Xe136. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314.
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. Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-β decay of Xe136. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314
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., and Stefan, I. 2016. "Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-β decay of Xe136". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1341012.
@article{osti_1341012,
title = {Rearrangement of valence neutrons in the neutrinoless double-β decay of Xe136},
author = {Szwec, S. V. and Kay, B. P. and Cocolios, T. E. and Entwisle, J. P. and Freeman, S. J. and Gaffney, L. P. and Guimaraes, V. and Hammache, F. and McKee, P. P. and Parr, E. and Portail, C. and Schiffer, J. P. and de Sereville, N. and Sharp, D. K. and Smith, J. F. and Stefan, I.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054314},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1341012}, journal = {Physical Review C},
issn = {2469-9985},
number = 5,
volume = 94,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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