Recent results on heavy-ion induced reactions of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay at INFN-LNS

¹ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
² Instituto de Fısica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico City, Mexico
³ Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares – Ocoyoacac, Mexico
⁴ School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University – Tel Aviv, Israel
⁵ Universidad de Concepcion – Concepcion, Chile
⁶ Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico – Mexico City, Mexico
⁷ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Italy
⁸ Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo, Brazil
⁹ Department of Physics, Akdeniz University – Antalya, Turkey
¹⁰ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Italy
¹¹ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Italy
¹² DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
¹³ Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della materia, Italy
¹⁴ Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Lanzhou, China
¹⁵ LPC Caen, Normandie Universite, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3 Caen, France
¹⁶ Nuclear Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics – Kolkata, India
¹⁷ Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
¹⁸ DIMEAS, Politecnico di Torino – Torino, Italy
¹⁹ Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense – Niteroi, Brazil
²⁰ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova – Genova, Italy
²¹ Department of Physics, Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
²² Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova – Genova, Italy
²³ Institute of Natural Sciences, Karadeniz Teknik University – Trabzon, Turkey
²⁴ University of Jyvaskyla – Jyvaskyla, Finland
²⁵ Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” – Enna, Italy
²⁶ Departamento de FAMN, Universidad de Sevilla – Sevilla, Spain
²⁷ CNR-IMM, Sezione di Catania – Catania, Italy
²⁸ Department of Physics, University of Giessen – Giessen, Germany
²⁹ Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares IPEN/CNEN – Sao Paulo, Brazil
³⁰ Department of Physics and HINP, University of Ioannina – Ioannina, Greece
³¹ IFIN-HH – Magurele, Romania
³² Institut fur Kernphysik, Technische Universitat Darmstadt – Darmstadt, Germany
³³ Centro Universitario FEI – Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
³⁴ Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

^* Corresponding author: manuela.cavallaro@lns.infn.it

Published online: 4 December 2019

Abstract

The possibility to use a special class of heavy-ion induced direct reactions, such as double charge exchange reactions, is discussed in view of their application to extract information that may be helpful to determinate the nuclear matrix elements entering in the expression of neutrinoless double beta decay half-life. The methodology of the experimental campaign presently running at INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud is reported andthe experimental challenges characterizing such activity are described.