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Double Beta Decay, Nuclear Structure and Physics beyond the Standard Model
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay () is presently the only known
experiment to distinguisch between Dirac neutrinos, different from their
antiparticles, and Majorana neutrinos, identical with their antiparticles. In
addition allows to determine the absolute scale of the
neutrino masses. This is not possible with neutrino oscillations. To determine
the neutrino masses one must assume, that the light Majorana neutrino exchange
is the leading mechanism for and that the matrix element of
this transition can ba calculated reliably. The experimental
transition amplitude in this mechanism is a product of the light left handed
effective Majorana neutrino mass and of this transition matrix element. The
different methods, Quasi-particle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA), Shell
Model (SM), Projected Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (PHFB) and Interacting Boson
Model (IBM2) used in the literature and the reliability of the matrix elements
in these approaches are reviewed. In the second part it is investigated how one
can determine the leading mechanism or mechanisms from the data of the
decay in different nuclei. Explicite expressions are given for
the transition matrix elements. is shown, that possible interference terms
allow to test CP (Charge and Parity conjugation) violation.Comment: Contribution to the EPS conference in Eilath: "Nuclear Physics in
Astrophysics 5." April 3rd to 8th. 201
Dibaryon Condensate in Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars: Exact Analysis in One-Dimensional Models
We investigate dense nuclear matter with a dibaryon Bose-Einstein condensate
as a possible intermediate state before the quark-gluon phase transition. An
exact analysis of this state of matter is presented in a one-dimensional model.
The analysis is based on a reduction of the quantization rules for the N-body
problem to N coupled algebraic transcendental equations. We observe that when
the Fermi momentum approaches the resonance momentum, the one-particle
distribution function increases near the Fermi surface. When the Fermi momentum
is increased beyond the resonance momentum, the equation of state becomes
softer. The observed behavior can be interpreted in terms of formation of a
Bose-Einstein condensate of two-fermion resonances (dibaryons). In cold nuclear
matter, it should occur if 2(m_N + epsilon_F) is greater or equal to m_D, where
m_N and m_D are respectively the nucleon and dibaryon masses and epsilon_F is
the nucleon Fermi energy.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX, 2 Postscript figures, to appear in Annals of Physic
Once more on electromagnetic form factors of nucleons in extended vector meson dominance model
Extended vector meson dominance model, that allows to describe the
electromagnetic form factors of nucleons obeying the asymptotic quark counting
rule prescriptions and contains the minimal number of free parameters, is
presented. We get a reasonable fit of form factors over experimentally
available space-like region of momentum transfer and get also reasonable
results in the time-like region.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Equation of state of hadronic matter with dibaryons in an effective quark model
The equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter with the inclusion of
non-strange dibaryons is studied. We pay special attention to the existence of
a dibaryon condensate at zero temperature. These calculations have been
performed in an extended quark-meson coupling model with density-dependent
parameters, which takes into account the finite size of nucleons and dibaryons.
A first-order phase-transition to pure dibaryon matter has been found. The
corresponding critical density is strongly dependent on the value of the
dibaryon mass. The density behavior of the nucleon and dibaryon effective
masses and confining volumes have also been discussed.Comment: 9 pages, LaTex, 3 Postscript figures, a misprint correcte
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