<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>There's been a slight change of plan and so I'll be leading the journal club discussion this Wednesday. The paper I've selected is</div><div><br></div><div>
<p style="margin:0px">"Large-Scale Shell-Model Analysis of the Neutrinoless ββ Decay of 48Ca"</p></div><div><a href="http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.112502">http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.112502</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Questions to help you along in your reading:</u></b></div><div>1) Why is the neutrinoless double beta decay matrix element an interesting thing to calculate?</div><div>2) What is the "new" thing that is done in this paper?</div><div>3) What is the difference between the (beautifully named) SDPFMU and SDPFMU-DB interactions?</div><div>4) In simple language, what does it mean for an operator to be "quenched"?</div><div>5) What is their explanation for why they get the energy of the second 0+ in Ti48 wrong by 1MeV?</div><div>5) What is the main finding of the paper?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>Questions for discussion:</u></b></div><div>1) Is the adjustment made to the interaction justified or is it over-fitting?</div><div><br></div><div>2) Do they have a convincing handle on their theoretical uncertainties?</div><div><br></div><div>3) Should the 0vBB operator be quenched? If so, how will we know it was done correctly?</div><div><br><div><b><u><br class="">Jargon that's not explained because PRL has length limits:</u></b></div><div>* 2hw excitation - In a harmonic oscillator basis, the energy to excite from one major shell to another (in this case sd -> pf ), is equal to hw, where w is the oscillator frequency. So exciting two particles will naively cost 2hw of energy.</div><div>* Seniority - Like nucleons tend to form pairs with spin-parity 0+. Seniority is the number of un-paired nucleons.</div><div>* Short range correlations (SRC) - Most realistic nuclear interactions are strongly repulsive at short distances, and so the SRCs try to account for this phenomenologically by suppressing the nucleon wave functions at short relative distances.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy reading,</div><div><br></div><div>-Ragnar</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Ragnar Stroberg<div>Postdoctoral research associate<br><div>Theory Department</div></div><div>TRIUMF</div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16.8px;text-align:-webkit-center">(604)-222-1047 x 6446</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>