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Bound-State Double-Beta Decay

NázevTitle
Bound-State Double-Beta DecayBound-State Double-Beta Decay
Druh výsledkuResult type
Příspěvek ve sborníkuProceedings paper
AutořiAuthors
A. Babič, D. Štefánik, M.I. Krivoruchenko, F. Šimkovic
DOIDOI
10.1088/1742-6596/1056/1/012002
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. London: IOP Publishing, 2018. p. 1-5. vol. 1056. ISSN 1742-6596.
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000544056600002
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-85051353273
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21340/18:00336903!RIV20-MSM-21340___
ProjektProject
Podzemní laboratoř LSM - česká účast ve výzkumné infrastruktuře evropského významuUnderground laboratory LSM - Czech participation to European-level research infrastructure

AbstraktAbstract

We study a new mode of the neutrinoless and two-neutrino double-beta decays in which a single electron is emitted from the atom. The other electron is assumed to occupy one of the vacant s_1/2 or p_1/2 subshells of the daughter ion. Such process could manifest itself through an additional background signal in the single-electron spectra, which will be accessible in the next-generation experiment SuperNEMO. We calculate the phase-space factors in terms of relativistic electron wave functions obtained as the solutions to the Dirac equation and evaluated at the nuclear radius, while taking into account the shielding effect of nuclear charge via the multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock package GRASP2K. Half-lives are estimated for the most relevant double-beta-decay isotopes and experimental significance is discussed.

We study a new mode of the neutrinoless and two-neutrino double-beta decays in which a single electron is emitted from the atom. The other electron is assumed to occupy one of the vacant s_1/2 or p_1/2 subshells of the daughter ion. Such process could manifest itself through an additional background signal in the single-electron spectra, which will be accessible in the next-generation experiment SuperNEMO. We calculate the phase-space factors in terms of relativistic electron wave functions obtained as the solutions to the Dirac equation and evaluated at the nuclear radius, while taking into account the shielding effect of nuclear charge via the multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock package GRASP2K. Half-lives are estimated for the most relevant double-beta-decay isotopes and experimental significance is discussed.