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Muon capture rates: Evaluation within the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation
Fedor Simkovic, Rastislav Dvornicky, Petr Vogel
The Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) is used in evaluation of the total muon capture ratesfor the final nuclei participating in double-beta decay. Several variants o…
nuclear matrix elements, neutrino potentials and symmetry
Fedor Šimkovic, Adam Smetana, Petr Vogel
Intimate relation between the Gamow-Teller part of the matrix element and the closure matrix element is explained and explored. If…
and nuclear matrix elements, QRPA, and isospin symmetry restoration
Fedor Šimkovic, Vadim Rodin, Amand Faessler +1
Within QRPA we achieve partial restoration of the isospin symmetry and hence fulfillment of the requirement that the Fermi matrix element vanishes, as it should,…
Nuclear structure and double beta decay
Petr Vogel
Study of the neutrinoless double beta decay, , includes a variety of problems of nuclear structure theory. They are reviewed here. The problems range from the mechanism of th…
Relation between the and nuclear matrix elements
Petr Vogel, Fedor Šimkovic
A formal relation between the GT part of the nuclear matrix elements $M^0ν}_{GT}$ of decay and the closure matrix elements of decay is established. This…
Relation between the and nuclear matrix elements revisited
Fedor Šimkovic, Rastislav Hodák, Amand Faessler +1
We show that the dominant Gamow-Teller part, , of the nuclear matrix element governing the neutrinoless decay is related to the matrix element gover…
nuclear matrix elements and the occupancy of individual orbits
Fedor Simkovic, Amand Faessler, Petr Vogel
The measured occupancies of valence orbits in Ge and Se are used as a guideline for modification of the effective mean field energies that results in better descripti…
Anatomy of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay
Fedor Simkovic, Amand Faessler, Vadim Rodin +2
We show that, within the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) and the renormalized QRPA (RQRPA) based on the Bonn CD nucleon-nucleon interaction, the competition between…
Erratum: Assessment of uncertainties in QRPA -decay nuclear matrix elements [Nucl. Phys. A 766, 107 (2006)]
V. A. Rodin, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic +1
This is an erratum to our previously published paper.
Model dependence of the neutrino-deuteron disintegration cross sections at low energies
B. Mosconi, P. Ricci, E. Truhlik +1
Model dependence of the reaction rates for the weak breakup of deuterons by low energy neutrinos is studied starting from the cross sections derived from potential models and also…
Muon capture on nuclei: random phase approximation evaluation versus data for 6 Z 94 nuclei
Nikolaj Thomas Zinner, Karlheinz Langanke, Petr Vogel
We use the random phase approximation to systematically describe the total muon capture rates on all nuclei where they have been measured. We reproduce the experimental values on t…
Uncertainties in the --decay nuclear matrix elements
Vadim Rodin, Amand Faessler, Fedor Simkovic +1
The nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decay () of most nuclei with known -decay rates are systematically evaluated using the Quasiparticl…
Assessment of uncertainties in QRPA -decay nuclear matrix elements
V. A. Rodin, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic +1
The nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decay () of most nuclei with known -decay rates are systematically evaluated using the Quasiparticl…
Effective Operators for Double-Beta Decay
J. Engel, P. Vogel
We use a solvable model to examine double-beta decay, focusing on the neutrinoless mode. After examining the ways in which the neutrino propagator affects the corresponding matrix…
Neutrino-nucleus reactions and nuclear structure
E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo +1
The methods used in the evaluation of the neutrino-nucleus cross section are reviewed. Results are shown for a variety of targets of practical importance. Many of the described rea…
On the uncertainty in the decay nuclear matrix elements
V. A. Rodin, Amand Faessler, F. Šimkovic +1
The nuclear matrix elements of the neutrinoless double beta decay () are evaluated for Ge,Mo, Te, and Xe within the Renormalized Quasi…
Constraints on Two-Body Axial Currents from Reactor Antineutrino-Deuteron Breakup Reactions
Malcolm Butler, Jiunn-Wei Chen, Petr Vogel
We discuss how to reduce theoretical uncertainties in the neutrino-deuteron breakup cross-sections crucial to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory's efforts to measure the solar neutri…
Nuclear Physics Neutrino PreTown Meeting: Summary and Recommendations
W. C. Haxton, John Bahcall, A. Baha Balantekin +12
In preparation for the nuclear physics Long Range Plan exercise, a group of 104 neutrino physicists met in Seattle September 21-23 to discuss both the present state of the field an…
Double Beta Decay: Theory, Experiment, and Implications
Petr Vogel
The theory, experimental status, and implications of double beta decay are reviewed.
Nuclear Physics of Double Beta Decay
Petr Vogel
Study of the neutrinoless decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evalua…
Neutrino nucleus scattering
Petr Vogel
The status of the theoretical description of neutrino-nuclear interaction for low and intermediate energies is reviewed and its result compared with the existing data. Particular e…
Shell model calculation of the beta- and beta+ partial halflifes of 54Mn and other unique second forbidden beta decays
Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo, Petr Vogel
The nucleus 54Mn has been observed in cosmic rays. In astrophysical environments it is fully stripped of its atomic electrons and its decay is dominated by the beta- branch to the…
Isovector Pairing in Odd-A Proton-Rich Nuclei
Jonathan Engel, Karlheinz Langanke, Petr Vogel
A simple model based on the group SO(5) suggests that both the like-particle and neutron-proton components of isovector pairing correlations in odd-A nuclei are Pauli blocked. The…
SMMC studies of N=Z pf-shell nuclei with pairing-plus-quadrupole Hamiltonian
K. Langanke, P. Vogel, Dao-Chen Zheng
We perform Shell Model Monte Carlo calculations of selected N=Z pf-shell nuclei with a schematic hamiltonian containing isovector pairing and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions. Co…