ÚTEFČVUT Ústav technické a experimentální fyziky ČVUT v PrazeInstitute of Experimental and Applied Physics, CTU in Prague

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
Klíčová slovaKeywords
double beta decay, relativistic Fermi function, electron spectrum
KonferenceConference
Conference on Neutrino and Nuclear Physics (Catania, Italy, 2017-10-15)
DOIDOI
10.1088/1742-6596/1056/1/012002
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1056, 012002 (2018) · ISSN 1742-6596
RokYear
2018
JazykLanguage
eng
ZáznamyRecords
ProjektProject
Podzemní laboratoř LSM - česká účast ve výzkumné infrastruktuře evropského významuUnderground laboratory LSM - Czech participation to European-level research infrastructure
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1056/1/012002/pdf
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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.

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