{
  "id": "1710.05026",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-10-13T17:57:23.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-10-13T17:57:23.000Z",
  "title": "Neutrinoless double beta decay matrix elements in light nuclei",
  "authors": [
    "S. Pastore",
    "J. Carlson",
    "V. Cirigliano",
    "W. Dekens",
    "E. Mereghetti",
    "R. B. Wiringa"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 6 figures",
  "categories": [
    "nucl-th",
    "hep-lat",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present the first ab initio calculations of neutrinoless double beta decay matrix elements in $A=6$-$12$ nuclei using Variational Monte Carlo wave functions obtained from the Argonne $v_{18}$ two-nucleon potential and Illinois-7 three-nucleon interaction. We study both light Majorana neutrino exchange and potentials arising from a large class of multi-TeV mechanisms of lepton number violation. Our results provide benchmarks to be used in testing many-body methods that can be extended to the heavy nuclei of experimental interest. In light nuclei we have also studied the impact of two-body short range correlations and the use of different forms for the transition operators, such as those corresponding to different orders in chiral effective theory.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-10-13T17:57:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "double beta decay matrix elements",
      "neutrinoless double beta decay matrix",
      "light nuclei",
      "monte carlo wave functions"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}