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Challenges in double charge exchange measurements for neutrino physics (2019)

NUMEN Collaboration. (2019). Challenges in double charge exchange measurements for neutrino physics. In F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, T. Kawano, F. Salvat-Pujol, & P. Talou (Eds.), NRM 2018 : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms (pp. 233-238). CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN Proceedings, 1. http://cds.cern.ch/record/2669349

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All authors or editors: NUMEN Collaboration

Parent publication: NRM 2018 : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms

Parent publication editors: Cerutti, F.; Ferrari, A.; Kawano, T.; Salvat-Pujol, F.; Talou, P.

Place and date of conference: Varenna, Italy, 11.-15.6.2018

ISBN: 978-92-9083-519-6

eISBN: 978-92-9083-520-2

Journal or series: CERN Proceedings

ISSN: 2078-8835

eISSN: 2518-315X

Publication year: 2019

Number in series: 1

Pages range: 233-238

Number of pages in the book: 403

Publisher: CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research

Publication country: Switzerland

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2669349

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66386

Abstract

The neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay, if observed, has important implications on particle physics, cosmology and fundamental physics. In particular it can give access to the effective neutrino mass. In order to extract such information from the 0νββ-decay half-life measurement, the knowledge of the Nuclear Matrix Elements (NME) is of utmost importance. In this context the NUMEN and the NURE projects aim to extract information on the NME by measuring the Double Charge Exchange (DCE) reaction cross section in selected systems of interest for the 0νββ-decay. The experimental difficulties that have to be faced are the measurements at very forward-angle, the very low cross section of the process to be measured, the requirement of a high energy resolution and, eventually, the unambiguous identification of the DCE reaction from other competing processes. The large-acceptance spectrometer MAGNEX, present at INFN-LNS, Catania fulfills all the requirement above mentioned.

Keywords: nuclear physics; particle physics; neutrinos

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Reporting Year: 2019

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