Neutrinoless double- $\beta$ decay of Sn 124, Te 130, and Xe 136 in the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method. Jiao, C. F., Horoi, M., & Neacsu, A. Physical Review C, 98(6):64324, dec, 2018.
Neutrinoless double- $\beta$ decay of Sn 124, Te 130, and Xe 136 in the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
We present a generator-coordinate method for realistic shell-model Hamiltonians that closely approximates the full shell model calculations of the matrix elements for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of Sn124, Te130, and Xe136. We treat not only quadrupole deformations but also the proton-neutron pairing amplitudes as generator coordinates. We validate this method by calculating and comparing spectroscopic quantities with the exact shell model results and experimental data. Our Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method produces 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ matrix elements much closer to the shell model ones, compared to the existing energy-density-functional-based generator-coordinate approaches. The remaining overestimation of 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ nuclear matrix element suggests that additional correlations may be needed to be taken into account for Sn124, Te130, and Xe136 when calculating with the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method. The validation of this method may open the possibility of calculating 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ matrix element of Nd150 in a large shell-model space.
@article{jiao_neutrinoless_2018,
abstract = {We present a generator-coordinate method for realistic shell-model Hamiltonians that closely approximates the full shell model calculations of the matrix elements for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of Sn124, Te130, and Xe136. We treat not only quadrupole deformations but also the proton-neutron pairing amplitudes as generator coordinates. We validate this method by calculating and comparing spectroscopic quantities with the exact shell model results and experimental data. Our Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method produces 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ matrix elements much closer to the shell model ones, compared to the existing energy-density-functional-based generator-coordinate approaches. The remaining overestimation of 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ nuclear matrix element suggests that additional correlations may be needed to be taken into account for Sn124, Te130, and Xe136 when calculating with the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method. The validation of this method may open the possibility of calculating 0$\nu$$\beta$$\beta$ matrix element of Nd150 in a large shell-model space.},
annote = {Publisher: American Physical Society},
author = {Jiao, C. F. and Horoi, M. and Neacsu, A.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.98.064324},
issn = {24699993},
journal = {Physical Review C},
month = {dec},
number = {6},
pages = {64324},
title = {{Neutrinoless double- $\beta$ decay of Sn 124, Te 130, and Xe 136 in the Hamiltonian-based generator-coordinate method}},
url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.064324},
volume = {98},
year = {2018}
}

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