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Preliminary study of feasibility of an experiment looking for excited state double beta transitions in tin
An attempt to study the feasibility of a new experiment to search for double
beta decay in Sn and Sn was carried out by using ultra-low
background HPGe detector (244 cm) inside the Gran Sasso National
Laboratory (LNGS) of the INFN (Italy). A small sample of natural Sn was
examined for 2367.5 h. The radioactive contamination of the sample has been
estimated. The data has also been considered to calculate the present
sensitivity for the proposed search; half-life limits years for EC and EC-EC processes in Sn and
years for transition in Sn were
measured. In the last section of the paper the enhancement of the sensitivity
for a proposed experiment with larger mass to reach theoretically estimated
values of half-lives is discussed.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in NIMA (in
press
Rotational Bands and Electromagnetic Transitions of some even-even Neodymium Nuclei in J-Projected Hartree-Fock Model
Rotational structures of even-even Nd nuclei are studied with the
self-consistent deformed Hartree-Fock (HF) and angular momentum (J) projection
model. Spectra of ground band, recently observed , and a few
more excited, positive and negative parity bands have been studied upto high
spin values. Apart from these detailed electromagnetic properties (like E2, M1
matrix elements) of all the bands have been obtained. There is substantial
agreement between our model calculations and available experimental data.
Predictions are made about the band structures and electromagnetic properties
of these nuclei. Some 4-qasiparticle K-isomeric bands and their electromagnetic
properties are predicted.Comment: 20 page
The positron double- decay with emission of two neutrinos in the nuclei Ru, Pd, Cd and Cd
Theoretical results for %the positron double- decay
with emission of two neutrinos in the nuclei Ru, Pd, Cd
and Cd are presented. The study employs the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov
model to obtain the wave functions of the parent and daughter nuclei, in
conjunction with the summation method to estimate the double beta decay nuclear
matrix elements. The reliability of the intrinsic wave functions of
Ru, Mo, Pd and Cd nuclei are
tested by comparing the theoretically calculated spectroscopic properties with
the available experimental data. Calculated half-lives of Ru, Pd, Cd and Cd nuclei for 2 , 2 and 2 modes are presented.
The effect of deformation on the nuclear transition matrix element
is also studied.Comment: Submitted to EPJ
New limit for the half-life of double beta decay of Zr to the first excited state of Mo
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay is a phenomenon of fundamental interest in
particle physics. The decay rates of double beta decay transitions to the
excited states can provide input for Nuclear Transition Matrix Element
calculations for the relevant two neutrino double beta decay process. It can be
useful as supplementary information for the calculation of Nuclear Transition
Matrix Element for the neutrinoless double beta decay process. In the present
work, double beta decay of Zr to the excited state of
Mo at 871.1 keV is studied using a low background 230 cm HPGe
detector. No evidence of this decay was found with a 232 g.y exposure of
natural Zirconium. The lower half-life limit obtained for the double beta decay
of to the excited state of is y at 90% C.L., an improvement by a factor of
4 over the existing experimental limit at 90\% C.L. The sensitivity is
estimated to be y at 90% C.L. using
the Feldman-Cousins method.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, Accepted in Eur. Phys. J.
A note on the Gauss decomposition of the elliptic Cauchy matrix
Explicit formulas for the Gauss decomposition of elliptic Cauchy type
matrices are derived in a very simple way. The elliptic Cauchy identity is an
immediate corollary.Comment: 5 page
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