A many body Hamiltonian involving the mean field for a projected spherical
single particle basis, the pairing interactions for alike nucleons and the
dipole-dipole proton-neutron interactions in the particle-hole (ph) and
particle-particle (pp) channels is treated by the projected gauge fully
renormalized proton-neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation
(PGFRpnQRPA) approach. The resulting wave functions and energies for the mother
and the daughter nuclei are used to calculate the 2νββ decay rate
and the process half life. For illustration, the formalism is applied for the
decay 100Mo→100Ru. The results are in good agreement with the
corresponding experimental data. The Ikeda sum rule (ISR) is obeyed. The
gauge projection makes the pp interaction inefficient.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur