The recently developed formalism for the evaluation of nuclear form factors in neutrinoless double beta decay is applied to 48Ca, 76Ge, 82Se, l°°Mo, 128Te and ~3°Te nuclei. Explicit analytical expressions that follows from this theoretical development, in the single-mode model for the decay of 48Ca,
Nuclear moments for the neutrinoless double beta decay
✍ Scribed by C. Barbero; F. Krmpotić; D. Tadić
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 644 KB
- Volume
- 628
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0375-9474
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✦ Synopsis
A derivation of the neutrinoless double beta decay rate, specially adapted for nuclear structure calculations, is presented. It is shown that the Fourier-Bessel expansion of the hadronic currents, jointly with angular momentum recoupling, leads to very simple final expressions for the nuclear form factors. This greatly facilitates the theoretical estimate of the half-life. Our approach does not require the closure approximation, which, however, can be implemented if desired. The method is exemplified for ,f3/? decay 48Ca ----t 48Ti, both within the QRPA and a shell-model like model.
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