Double-Beta Decay Workshop

Program All talks will be held in the TRIUMF auditorium and will be 25 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion
Wednesday	Chair: Javier Menéndez
9:00	Jason Holt and Kyle Leach: Opening Remarks
9:15	Alfredo Poves: Nuclear Structure and 0νββ Decay; A Shell Model View
9:45	Sean Freeman: Experiments to Probe the Pairing Properties of 0νββ Decay Candidates
10:15	Takaharu Otsuka: Nucleon Pairs in Double-Beta Decay
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15	David Sharp: Changes in Nucleon Occupancies in 0νββ Decay Systems
11:45	Tomas Rodríguez: Relevant Degrees of Freedom for 0νββ Decay Nuclear Matrix Elements with Energy Density Functionals
12:15 Lunch Break
	Chair: Ben Kay
2:00	Fedor Simkovic: QRPA calculation of 0νββ NMEs: Present and Future
2:30	Dieter Frekers: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle in ββ decay
3:00	Jose Barea: Some Microscopic Aspects of the Determination of 0νββ Decay Matrix Elements with the IBM-2
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00	Discussion session led by Javier Menéndez and Ben Kay

Thursday	Chair: Jon Engel
9:00	Mihai Horoi: 0νββ Decay: To Quench or Not to Quench
9:30	Hiro Ejiri: Experimental Studies of Spin-Dipole and Gamow-Teller Strengths for β and ββ Decay
10:00	Saori Pastore: Electroweak structure of light nuclei
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00	Achim Schwenk: 0νββ Decay Operator from Chiral EFT
11:30	Richard Hill: Particle Physics Insights for Nuclear-Weak Physics
12:00	Sonia Bacca: A path to lepton-nucleus reactions from first principles
12:30 Lunch Break
2:00	Wick Haxton (Lab-Wide Colloquium): Double Beta Decay and the Challenges It Poses for Nuclear Physics
3:00 Coffee Break
	Chair: Kyle Leach
3:30	David Radford: Status of the Majorana Demonstrator and Prospects for a Ton-Scale 76Ge 0νββ Search
4:00	Discussion session led by Jon Engel and Dieter Frekers
7:00	Workshop Dinner at Café Salade de Fruits
Friday	Chair: Jason Holt
9:00	Petr Navrátil: SRG and Valence-Space Renormalization of the 0νββ Decay Operator
9:30	Thomas Brunner: In-Trap Spectroscopy at TITAN for NME Calculations
10:00	James Vary: Effective Moments and Transition Operators in the No-Core Shell Model
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00	Heiko Hergert: Describing ββ Decay Processes in the In-Medium SRG Framework
11:30	Steve Yates: Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies: Relevance for 0νββ Decay
12:00	Ragnar Stroberg: Ab Initio Effective Interactions and Operators from IM-SRG
12:30 Lunch/Discussions
2:00	Wrap-up discussion session led by Jon Engel and Kyle Leach.

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