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Nuclear Theory·nucl-th

Monday·May 28, 2018

5 papers2 primary·3 cross-listed

  1. 01

    Tensor correlations in He and Be with antisymmetrized quasi cluster model

    H. Matsuno · Y. Kanada-En'yo · N. Itagaki

    In this paper, we extend the framework of improved version of simplified method to take into account the tensor contribution (SMT) and propose AQCM-T, tensor version of antisymmetrized quasi cluster model (AQCM). Although AQCM-T is phenomenological, we can treat the - coupling in the deuteron-like -pair induced by the tensor interaction in a very simplified way, which allows us to proceed to heavier nuclei. Also we propose a new effective interaction, V2m, where the triplet-even channel of the Volkov No.2 interaction is weakened to 60% so as to reproduce the binding energy of He after including the tensor term of a realistic interaction. Using AQCM-T and the new interaction, the significant tensor contribution in He is shown, which is almost comparable the central interaction, where -state mixes by 8% to the major -state. The AQCM-T model with the new interaction is also applied to Be. It is found that the tensor suppression gives significant contribution to the short-range repulsion between two {\alpha} clusters.

    nucl-thPRC(2018)·9 citations
  2. 02

    Quenching of nuclear matrix elements for decay by chiral two-body currents

    Long-Jun Wang🇺🇸 · Jonathan Engel🇺🇸 · Jiang Ming Yao🇺🇸

    We examine the leading effects of two-body weak currents from chiral effective field theory on the matrix elements governing neutrinoless double-beta decay. In the closure approximation these effects are generated by the product of a one-body current with a two-body current, yielding both two- and three-body operators. When the three-body operators are considered without approximation, they quench matrix elements by about 10%, less than suggested by prior work, which neglected portions of the operators. The two-body operators, when treated in the standard way, can produce much larger quenching. In a consistent effective field theory, however, these large effects become divergent and must be renormalized by a contact operator, the coefficient of which we cannot determine at present.

    nucl-thPRC(2018)·62 citations

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