{
  "id": "1604.06297",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-04-21T13:32:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-04-21T13:32:04.000Z",
  "title": "Octupole correlations in low-lying states of 150Nd and 150Sm and their impact on neutrinoless double-beta decay",
  "authors": [
    "J. M. Yao",
    "J. Engel"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 5 figures",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a generator-coordinate calculation, based on a relativistic energy-density functional, of the low-lying spectra in the isotopes $^{150}$Nd and $^{150}$Sm and of the nuclear matrix element that governs the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the first isotope to the second. We carefully examine the impact of octupole correlations on both nuclear structure and the double-beta decay matrix element. Octupole correlations turn out to reduce quadrupole collectivity in both nuclei. Shape fluctuations, however, dilute the effects of octupole deformation on the double-beta decay matrix element, so that the overall octupole-induced quenching is only about 7\\%.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-04-21T13:32:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutrinoless double-beta decay",
      "double-beta decay matrix element",
      "low-lying states",
      "relativistic energy-density functional",
      "reduce quadrupole collectivity"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016arXiv160406297Y"
    }
  }
}