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 …

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 …

Emulating the generator coordinate method with extended eigenvector continuation for the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

QY Luo, X Zhang, LH Chen, JM Yao - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
We present a benchmark study of the generator coordinate method (GCM) combined with
eigenvector continuation (EC) in two different schemes for the low-lying states of the Lipkin …

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 …

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 …

Generator coordinate method for nuclear octupole excitations: Status and perspectives

EF Zhou, JM Yao - International Journal of Modern Physics E, 2023 - World Scientific
Strong octupole correlations have been observed in the low-lying states of atomic nuclei
across various mass regions. In this paper, we provide an overview of Beyond Mean-Field …

Optimization of the number of intrinsic states included in the discrete generator coordinate method

J Martínez-Larraz, TR Rodríguez - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We present a mechanism to efficiently preselect the number of intrinsic many-body states
that are used to define the many-body wave functions within the discrete generator …

Impact of isovector pairing fluctuations on neutrinoless double- decay in multireference covariant density functional theory

CR Ding, X Zhang, JM Yao, P Ring, J Meng - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We extend the multireference covariant density-functional theory (MR-CDFT) by including
fluctuations in quadrupole deformations and average isovector pairing gaps simultaneously …

Symmetry-projected variational calculations with the numerical suite TAURUS: II. Configuration mixing of symmetry-projected reference states

B Bally, TR Rodríguez - The European Physical Journal A, 2024 - Springer
We present the numerical codes TAURUS pav and TAURUS mix that, combined, perform
the configuration mixing of symmetry-projected real general Bogoliubov quasiparticle states …