Speaker
Ms
BERNADETTE REBEIRO
(UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA)
Description
In addition to establishing the Majorana nature of neutrinos, obtaining the absolute neutrino mass scale is now the focus of several large-scale neutrinoless double beta decay experiments.
The current challenge in determining the neutrino mass accurately depends of calculation of nuclear matrix elements (NME's) in the select nuclei where these decays can take place. It is well known that the dominating uncertainties in the calculated NME values arise from the model dependence of these calculations.
In this talk we will present some recent experimental results using high resolution spectroscopy from 136,138Ba(p,t) and 138Ba(d,a) reactions that will be useful for future NME calculations for the double beta decay of $ ^{136}Xe \rightarrow ^{136}Ba $
Primary author
Ms
BERNADETTE REBEIRO
(UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA)
Co-authors
Ms
Alejandra DIAZ VARELA
(University of Guelph)
Ms
Allison RADICH
(University of Guelp)
Mr
Badamsambuu JIGMEDDORJ
(University of Guelph)
Ms
Christina BURBADGE
(University of Guelph)
Mr
Evan RAND
(University of Guelph)
Mr
Gordon BALL
(TRIUMF)
Mr
Hans WIRTH
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
Mr
Jespere ONDZE
(UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE)
Mr
Kyle LEACH
(Colorado School of Mine)
Mr
Paul GARRETT
(University of Guelp)
Mr
Philip ADSLEY
(Themba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Nucleaire d'Orsay)
Mr
Ralph HERTENBERGER
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
Prof.
Robbie Lindsay
(UWC)
Smarajit Triambak
(University of Western Cape)
Mr
Thomas FAESTERMANN
(Technische Universitat Munche)
Mr
Vinzenz BILDSTEIN
(University of Guelph)
Ms
Zandile MABIKA
(University of the Western Cape)
