Nuclear Matrix Elements for Double-Beta Decay

Abstract

Recent progress in nuclear-structure theory has been dramatic. I describe recent and future applications of ab initio calculations and the generator coordinate method to double-beta decay. I also briefly discuss the old and vexing problem of the renormalization of the weak nuclear axial-vector coupling constant "in medium" and plans to resolve it.

Talk presented CIPANP2015. 8 pages, 4 figures

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• Nucleosynthesis and observation of the heaviest elements