The NUMEN project: probing nuclear response to weak interaction by nuclear reactions

Carbone, D.; Agodi, C.; Bellone, J. I.; Burrello, S.; Calabrese, S.; Cappuzzello, F.; Cavallaro, M.; Colonna, M.; De Gregorio, G.; Ferreira, J. L.; Gargano, A.; Lenske, H.; Sgouros, O.; Spatafora, A.; Acosta, L.; Amador-Valenzuela, P.; Brischetto, G. A.; Calvo, D.; Capirossi, V.; Chavez Lomeli, E. R.; Ciraldo, I.; Delaunay, F.; Djapo, H.; Eke, C.; Finocchiaro, P.; Firat, S.; Fisichella, M.; Guazzelli, M. A.; Hacisalihoglu, A.; Iazzi, F.; Lay, J. A.; Linares, R.; Lubian, J.; Medina, N. H.; Moralles, M.; Oliveira, J. R. B.; Pakou, A.; Pandola, L.; Petrascu, H.; Pinna, F.; Russo, G.; Solakci, S. O.; Soukeras, V.; Souliotis, G.; Torresi, D.; Tudisco, S.; Yildirim, A.; Zagatto, V. A. B.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2586/1/012133

Different reactions channels induced by the 18O + 40Ca collisions at 275 MeV incident energy are simultaneously measured and analysed consistently within the same reaction and structure frameworks within the NUMEN project. The project aims to provide data-driven information for the determination of the nuclear matrix elements involved in the neutrinoless double beta decay. In particular, the elastic and inelastic scattering, one- and two-proton transfer, one-neutron transfer, and single charge exchange reactions are explored. The full quantum-mechanical calculations, performed by including microscopic nuclear structure inputs, describe well all the experimental data, giving support to a multi-channel strategy for the analysis of heavy-ion induced direct reactions.