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The upper limit on the mass of the Majorana neutrino, extracted from the limits on the nonobservation of the neutrinoless double-$\ensuremath{\beta}$ ($0\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\beta}\ensuremath{\beta}$) decay, is hampered by uncertainties in the matrix elements of the transition operators. Recently, we have shown that the values of the effective axial-vector current coupling constants (${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}$) for the $0\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\beta}\ensuremath{\beta}$ and the two-neutrino double-$\ensuremath{\beta}$ decays are close. This striking result was obtained for the first time by including vertex corrections and two-body currents in these matrix elements. In this Letter, we calculate the half-life for the $0\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\beta}\ensuremath{\beta}$ decay (${T}_{1/2}^{0\ensuremath{\nu}}$) of $^{136}\mathrm{Xe}$ using this closeness and show the convergence of the half-life with respect to the variation of the method to determine ${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}$. The closeness of the ${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}$ of the two decay modes plays a decisive role in predicting ${T}_{1/2}^{0\ensuremath{\nu}}$. The appropriate value of ${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}$ depends on the assumptions made for the sectors of the nuclear structure and transition operators of the calculations within the perturbation scheme. The value ${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}\ensuremath{\approx}1$ is obtained when the ${\mathrm{SkM}}^{*}$ is used to describe the nuclear structure component, while a smaller value of ${g}_{A}^{\text{eff}}$ is obtained by applying a less realistic interaction like the SGII one.
Authors
- J. Terasaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9390-5786)
- O. Civitarese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5447-850X)
Institutions
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
- Instituto de Física La Plata (AR)
- Centro Científico Tecnológico - La Plata (AR)
- Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. C
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/t2mf-c4yc
- Primary Topic
- Neutrino Physics Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00