Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in 48Ca

We use coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory to compute the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ca-48. Benchmarks with the no-core shell model in several light nuclei inform us about the accuracy of our approach. For Ca-48 we find a relatively small matrix element. We also compute the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-beta decay of Ca-48 with a quenching factor deduced from two-body currents in recent ab initio calculation of the Ikeda sum rule in Ca-48 [Gysbers et al., Nat. Phys. 15, 428 (2019)].

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The study computes the nuclear matrix element for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ca-48 using coupled-cluster theory and nuclear interactions from chiral effective field theory. The results show a relatively small matrix element for Ca-48. Additionally, the nuclear matrix element for the two-neutrino double-beta decay of Ca-48 is calculated with a quenching factor deduced from recent two-body currents calculation.