Perturbative treatment of the two neutrino double beta decay to excited 2+ states

1994
15 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 578 (1994) 62-76

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The two-neutrino double-beta-decay transitions of 76 Ge and 136 Xe to the ground and excited states of the nuclei 76 Se and 136 Ba, respectively, are calculated using a separable proton-neutron interaction. The corresponding nuclear matrix elements are computed by using the quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA). In addition, the coupling between quasiparticles and QRPA phonons, both of the charge-conserving and charge-non-conserving type, is included perturbatively in the calculation of double-beta-decay observables. It is found that these corrections do not change, significantly, the order of magnitude of the matrix elements for the two-neutrino double-beta-decay transitions to the first excited quadrupole state of the daughter nuclei.
  • double-beta decay: (2neutrino)
  • (2neutrino): double-beta decay
  • germanium
  • xenon
  • excited nucleus
  • perturbation theory
  • p n: interaction
  • interaction: p n
  • random phase approximation
  • charge: conservation law