Two-neutrino double-beta decay Fermi transition and two-nucleon interaction

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable model for two-neutrino double-beta decay of the Fermi type, analyzing how nuclear interactions influence the decay matrix element and proposing a sum rule for residual nuclear interactions.

Contribution

It provides a new solvable model linking decay matrix elements to nuclear interactions and introduces a sum rule to study residual interactions in nuclei.

Findings

Decay transition predominantly occurs through a single intermediate state.

Explicit dependence of decay matrix element on pairing and proton-neutron interactions derived.

Energy weighted sum rule connecting nuclei with ΔZ=2 is proposed.

Abstract

An exactly solvable model for a description of the two-neutrino double beta decay transition of the Fermi type is considered. By using perturbation theory an explicit dependence of the two-neutrino double beta decay matrix element on the like-nucleon pairing, particle-particle and particle-hole proton-neutron interactions by assuming a weak violation of isospin symmetry of Hamiltonian expressed with generators of the SO(5) group. It is found that there is a dominance of double beta decay transition through a single state of the intermediate nucleus. Then, an energy weighted sum rule connecting Delta Z=2 nuclei is presented and discussed. It is suggested that this sum rule can be exploited to study the residual interactions of the nuclear Hamiltonian.