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Theory of Neutrinos: A White Paper
2005
During 2004, four divisions of the American Physical Society commissioned a study of neutrino physics to take stock of where the field is at the moment and where it is going in the near and far future. Several working groups looked at various aspects of this vast field. The summary was published as a main report entitled ``The Neutrino Matrix'' accompanied by short 50 page versions of the report of each working group. Theoretical research in this field has been quite extensive and touches many areas and the short 50 page report provided only a brief summary and overview of few of the important points. The theory discussion group felt that it may be of value to the community to publish the e…
The NEXT path to neutrino inverse hierarchy
2018
De todas las partículas que componen el universo, quizás la más común de ellas sea también la más misteriosa, el neutrino. Ahora mismo miles de millones de estas partículas nos atraviesan sin percibirlo, y detectar una sola de ellas necesita de enormes detectores enterrados a gran profundidad. Postuladas por primera vez por Wolfgang Pauli en 1930, fueron bautizadas en 1934 como ”pequeños neutrones” por Enrico Fermi, aludiendo a dos de sus principales características: su pequeña masa y su ausencia de carga eléctrica. A mediados de los años 70, los neutrinos fueron incluidos en el Modelo Estándar bajo las premisas de: carecer de masa y carga eléctrica, experimentar únicamente la fuerza nuclea…
Disentangling decaying isomers and searching for signatures of collective excitations in β decay
2019
6 pags., 3 figs., 1 tab. -- 27th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2019) 29 July - 2 August 2019, Glasgow, UK
The first large-scale shell-model calculation of the two-neutrino double beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to the excited states in $^{76}$Se
2022
Large-scale shell-model calculations were carried out for the half-lives and branching ratios of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{76}$Ge to the ground state and the lowest three excited states $2_1^+$, $0_2^+$ and $2_2^+$ in $^{76}$Se. In total, the wave functions of more than 10,000 intermediate $1^+$ states in $^{76}$As were calculated in a three-step procedure allowing an efficient use of the available computer resources. In the first step, 250 lowest states, below some 5 MeV of excitation energy, were calculated without truncations within a full major shell $0f_{5/2}-1p-0g_{9/2}$ for both protons and neutrons. The wave functions of the rest of the states, up to some 30 MeV, were compute…
First-forbidden transitions in the reactor anomaly
2018
We study the dominant forbidden transitions in the antineutrino spectra of the fission actinides from 4 MeV onward using the nuclear shell model. Through explicit calculation of the shape factor, taking into account Coulomb corrections, we show the expected changes on cumulative electron and antineutrino spectra. Compared to the usual allowed approximation this results in a minor decrease of electron spectra from 4 MeV and onward, whereas an increase of several percent is observed in antineutrino spectra. We show that, despite their limited number, forbidden transitions dominate the spectral flux for most of the experimentally accessible range. Based on the shell model calculations we attem…
Nuclear matrix elements for 0νββ decays with light or heavy Majorana-neutrino exchange
2015
We compute the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) corresponding to the neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decays of nuclei which attract current experimental interest. We concentrate on ground-state-to-ground-state decay transitions mediated by light (l-NMEs) or heavy (h-NMEs) Majorana neutrinos. The computations are done in realistic single-particle model spaces using the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) with two-nucleon interactions based on the Bonn one-boson-exchange G matrix. Both the l-NMEs and the h-NMEs include the appropriate short-range correlations, nucleon form factors, and higher-order nucleonic weak currents. In addition, both types of NMEs are correct…
Shell-model calculation of isospin-symmetry breaking correction to superallowed Fermi beta-decay
2016
We investigate the radial-overlap part of the isospin-symmetry breaking correction to superallowed $0^+\to 0^+$-decay using the shell-model approach similar to that of Refs. [1, 2]. The 8 sd-shell emitters with masses between $A=22$ and $A=38$ have been re-examined. The Fermi matrix element is evaluated with realistic spherical single-particle wave functions, obtained from spherical Woods-Saxon (WS) or Hartree-Fock (HF) potentials, fine-tuned to reproduce the experimental data on charge radii and separation energies for nuclei of interest. The elaborated adjustment procedure removes any sensitivity of the correction to a specific parametrisation of the WS potential or to various versions of…
Neutrinoless ββ nuclear matrix elements using isovector spin-dipole Jπ = 2− data
2018
Ground-state-to-ground-state neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decays in nuclei of current experimental interest are revisited. In order to improve the reliability of the nuclear matrix element (NME) calculations for the light Majorana-neutrino mode, the NMEs are calculated by exploiting the newly available data on isovector spin-dipole (IVSD) Jπ=2− giant resonances. In order to correctly describe the IVSD up to and beyond the giant-resonance region, the present computations are performed in extended no-core single-particle model spaces using the spherical version of the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) with two-nucleon interactions based on the Bonn one-boson-…
Effective value of gA in β and ββ decays
2018
Effective value of the weak axial-vector coupling strength, g A , in nuclear β and ββ (double beta) decays is discussed. Both Gamow-Teller and first-forbidden β decays are included in the analyses. Quenching of g A in β and two-neutrino ββ decays is reviewed and impact of this quenching on neutrinoless ββ decays is addressed. New measurements of β spectra of first-forbidden non-unique β decays are encouraged, to learn about the mesonic enhancement of the weak axial charge in these decays. peerReviewed
Isovector spin-multipole strength distributions in double-β-decay triplets
2017
In this work the energetics and strength distributions of isovector spin-dipole and spin-quadrupole transitions from the ground states of the pairs (76Ge, 76Se), (82Se, 82Kr), (96Zr, 96Mo), (100Mo, 100Ru), (116Cd, 116Sn), (128Te, 128Xe), (130Te, 130Xe), and (136Xe, 136Ba), of double-β-decay initial and final nuclei, to the Jπ=0−,1−,2−,1+,2+, and 3+ excited states of the intermediate odd-odd nuclei 76As, 82Br, 96Nb, 100Tc, 116In, 128,130I, and 136Cs are investigated. The calculations are performed using a proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation (pnQRPA) theory framework with the Bonn-A two-body interaction in no-core single-particle valence spaces. peerReviewed