Status and future of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay: A review

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Engel, Jonathan ^a   Menéndez, Javier ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

double beta decay; neutrinos; nuclear structure; theory

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX;

EID: 85015792368     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aa5bc5     Document Type: Review

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