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Belley A, Yao JM, Bally B, Pitcher J, Engel J, Hergert H, Holt JD, Miyagi T, Rodríguez TR, Romero AM, Stroberg SR, Zhang X. Ab Initio Uncertainty Quantification of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ^{76}Ge. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:182502. [PMID: 38759198 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.182502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 03/02/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
Abstract
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay would offer proof of lepton number violation, demonstrating that neutrinos are Majorana particles, while also helping us understand why there is more matter than antimatter in the Universe. If the decay is driven by the exchange of the three known light neutrinos, a discovery would, in addition, link the observed decay rate to the neutrino mass scale through a theoretical quantity known as the nuclear matrix element (NME). Accurate values of the NMEs for all nuclei considered for use in 0νββ experiments are therefore crucial for designing and interpreting those experiments. Here, we report the first comprehensive ab initio uncertainty quantification of the 0νββ-decay NME, in the key nucleus ^{76}Ge. Our method employs nuclear strong and weak interactions derived within chiral effective field theory and recently developed many-body emulators. Our result, with a conservative treatment of uncertainty, is an NME of 2.60_{-1.36}^{+1.28}, which, together with the best-existing half-life sensitivity and phase-space factor, sets an upper limit for effective neutrino mass of 187_{-62}^{+205} meV. The result is important for designing next-generation germanium detectors aiming to cover the entire inverted hierarchy region of neutrino masses.
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- A Belley
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
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- ESNT, IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516-3255, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
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- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Physics, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
- ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Física Fundamental-CIAFF-UAM, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica (FQA), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), c. Martí i Franqués, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), c. Martí i Franqués, 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
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Stamen D, Hariharan D, Hoferichter M, Kubis B, Stoffer P. Kaon electromagnetic form factors in dispersion theory. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2022; 82:432. [PMID: 35572035 PMCID: PMC9095565 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10348-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The electromagnetic form factors of charged and neutral kaons are strongly constrained by their low-energy singularities, in the isovector part from two-pion intermediate states and in the isoscalar contribution in terms of ω and ϕ residues. The former can be predicted using the respective π π → K ¯ K partial-wave amplitude and the pion electromagnetic form factor, while the latter parameters need to be determined from electromagnetic reactions involving kaons. We present a global analysis of time- and spacelike data that implements all of these constraints. The results enable manifold applications: kaon charge radii, elastic contributions to the kaon electromagnetic self energies and corrections to Dashen's theorem, kaon boxes in hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) scattering, and the ϕ region in hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP). Our main results are:⟨ r 2 ⟩ c = 0.359 ( 3 ) fm 2 ,⟨ r 2 ⟩ n = - 0.060 ( 4 ) fm 2 for the charged and neutral radii, ϵ = 0.63 ( 40 ) for the elastic contribution to the violation of Dashen's theorem,a μ K -box = - 0.48 ( 1 ) × 10 - 11 for the charged kaon box in HLbL scattering, anda μ HVP [ K + K - , ≤ 1.05 GeV ] = 184.5 ( 2.0 ) × 10 - 11 ,a μ HVP [ K S K L , ≤ 1.05 GeV ] = 118.3 ( 1.5 ) × 10 - 11 for the HVP integrals around the ϕ resonance. The global fit toK ¯ K givesM ¯ ϕ = 1019.479 ( 5 ) MeV ,Γ ¯ ϕ = 4.207 ( 8 ) MeV for the ϕ resonance parameters including vacuum-polarization effects.
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- D. Stamen
- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (Theorie) and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (Theorie) and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (Theorie) and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Wirth R, Yao JM, Hergert H. Ab Initio Calculation of the Contact Operator Contribution in the Standard Mechanism for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:242502. [PMID: 34951798 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.242502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Starting from chiral nuclear interactions, we evaluate the contribution of the leading-order contact transition operator to the nuclear matrix element (NME) of neutrinoless double-beta decay, assuming a light Majorana neutrino-exchange mechanism. The corresponding low-energy constant (LEC) is determined by fitting the transition amplitude of the nn→ppe^{-}e^{-} process to a recently proposed synthetic datum. We examine the dependence of the amplitude on similarity renormalization group scale and chiral expansion order of the nuclear interaction, finding that both dependences can be compensated to a large extent by readjusting the LEC. We evaluate the contribution of both the leading-order contact operator and standard long-range operator to the neutrinoless double-beta decays in the light nuclei ^{6,8}He and the candidate nucleus ^{48}Ca. Our results provide the first clear demonstration that the contact term enhances the NME in calculations with commonly used chiral two- plus three-nucleon interactions. In the case of ^{48}Ca, for example, the NME obtained with the EM(1.8/2.0) interaction is enhanced from 0.61 to 0.87(4), where the uncertainty is propagated from the synthetic datum.
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- R Wirth
- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, People's Republic of China
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
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