The NUMEN project @ LNS: Status and perspectives

the NUMEN collaboration

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Abstract

The NUMEN project aims at accessing experimentally driven information on Nuclear Matrix Elements (NME) involved in the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay (0υββ), by high-accuracy measurements of the cross sections of Heavy Ion (HI) induced Double Charge Exchange (DCE) reactions. Particular interest is given to the (18O,18Ne) and (20Ne,20O) reactions as tools for β+ β+ and β-β- decays, respectively. First evidence about the possibility to get quantitative information about NME from experiments is found for both kind of reactions. In the experiments, performed at INFN - Laboratory Nazionali del Sud (LNS) in Catania, the beams are accelerated by the Superconducting Cyclotron (CS) and the reaction products are detected by the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer. The measured cross sections are challengingly low, limiting the present exploration to few selected isotopes of interest in the context of typically low-yield experimental runs. A major upgrade of the LNS facility is foreseen in order to significantly increase the experimental yield, thus making feasible a systematic study of all the cases of interest. Frontiers technologies are going to be developed, to this purpose, for the accelerator and the detection systems. In parallel, advanced theoretical models are developed aiming at extracting the nuclear structure information from the measured cross sections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSymmetries and Order
Subtitle of host publicationAlgebraic Methods in Many Body Systems - A Symposium in Celebration of the Career of Professor Francesco Iachello
EditorsReina Maruyama
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735418950
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Sep 2019
EventSymmetries and Order: Algebraic Methods in Many-Body Systems - New Haven, United States
Duration: 5 Oct 20186 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume2150
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceSymmetries and Order: Algebraic Methods in Many-Body Systems
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Haven
Period5/10/186/10/18

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