Toward the discovery of matter creation with neutrinoless decay

M Agostini, G Benato, JA Detwiler, J Menéndez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The discovery of neutrinoless β β decay could soon be within reach. This hypothetical
ultrarare nuclear decay offers a privileged portal to physics beyond the standard model of …

Neutrinoless -decay nuclear matrix elements from two-neutrino -decay data

L Jokiniemi, B Romeo, P Soriano, J Menéndez - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We study two-neutrino (2 ν β β) and neutrinoless double-β (0 ν β β) decays in the nuclear
shell model and proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) …

Coulomb excitation of

A Illana, M Zielińska, M Huyse, E Rapisarda… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The first experiment using radioactive beams post-accelerated by the HIE-ISOLDE facility
has enabled to obtain a precise set of B (E 2) transition probabilities in neutron-rich Zn 74 …

Evidence for Rigid Triaxial Deformation in from a Model-Independent Analysis

AD Ayangeakaa, RVF Janssens, S Zhu, D Little… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
An extensive, model-independent analysis of the nature of triaxial deformation in Ge 76, a
candidate for neutrinoless double-beta (0 ν β β) decay, was carried out following multistep …

Ab Initio Uncertainty Quantification of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in

A Belley, JM Yao, B Bally, J Pitcher, J Engel… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta (0 ν β β) decay would offer proof of lepton
number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also hel** us …

[PDF][PDF] Relativistic configuration-interaction density functional theory: Nonaxial effects on nuclear ββ decay

Y Wang, P Zhao, J Meng - Science Bulletin, 2024 - researchgate.net
The relativistic configuration-interaction density functional theory is developed for even-even
and odd-odd nuclei and is used to predict the nuclear matrix element of the neutrinoless ββ …

Onset of triaxial deformation in and properties of its first excited state studied by means of Coulomb excitation

M Rocchini, K Hadyńska-Klȩk, A Nannini, A Goasduff… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The electromagnetic structure of Zn 66 at low excitation energy was investigated via low-
energy Coulomb excitation at INFN Legnaro National Laboratories, using the Gamma Array …

Triaxiality and the nature of low-energy excitations in

AD Ayangeakaa, RVF Janssens, S Zhu, JM Allmond… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The deformation properties of the low-lying states in Ge 76 have been investigated following
a safe-energy Coulomb excitation measurement with the GRETINA tracking array and …

Limits on assigning a shape to a nucleus

A Poves, F Nowacki, Y Alhassid - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
The interpretation of nuclear observables in the laboratory frame in terms of the intrinsic
deformation parameters β and γ is a classical theme in nuclear structure. Here we use the …

Structure of Xe through multi-reference energy density functional calculations

B Bally, G Giacalone, M Bender - The European Physical Journal A, 2022 - Springer
Recently, values for the Kumar quadrupole deformation parameters of the nucleus 130 Xe
have been computed from the results of a Coulomb excitation experiment, indicating that this …