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 …

Beyond-mean-field approaches for nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay in the standard mechanism

JM Yao, J Meng, YF Niu, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A
precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge …

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) …

Correlations between neutrinoless double-, double Gamow-Teller, and double-magnetic decays in the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation …

L Jokiniemi, J Menéndez - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We explore the relation between the nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double-beta (0
ν β β) decay and two other processes: double Gamow-Teller (DGT) and double-magnetic …

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 helping us …

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay

JJ Gómez-Cadenas, J Martín-Albo, J Menéndez… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2023 - Springer
Neutrinos are the only particles in the Standard Model that could be Majorana fermions, that
is, completely neutral fermions that are their own antiparticles. The most sensitive known …

Optimization of the generator coordinate method with machine-learning techniques for nuclear spectra and neutrinoless double- decay: Ridge regression for nuclei …

X Zhang, W Lin, JM Yao, CF Jiao, AM Romero… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Background: The generator coordinate method (GCM) is an important tool of choice for
modeling large-amplitude collective motion in atomic nuclei. Recently, it has attracted …

Rooting the EDF method into the ab initio framework: PGCM-PT formalism based on MR-IMSRG pre-processed Hamiltonians

T Duguet, JP Ebran, M Frosini, H Hergert… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Recently, ab initio techniques have been successfully connected to the traditional valence-
space shell model. In doing so, they can either explicitly provide ab initio shell-model …

Correlation of neutrinoless double-beta decay nuclear matrix elements with nucleon-nucleon phase shifts

A Belley, J Pitcher, T Miyagi, SR Stroberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present an ab initio study of the correlation between nuclear matrix elements of
neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta $) decay and nucleon-nucleon scattering phase …

-decay nuclear matrix elements in self-consistent Skyrme quasiparticle random-phase approximation: Uncertainty from pairing interaction

WL Lv, YF Niu, DL Fang, JM Yao, CL Bai, J Meng - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The uncertainty in the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) of 0 ν β β decay for Ge 76, Se 82, Te
128, Te 130, and Xe 136 in the self-consistent quasiparticle random phase approximation …