@inproceedings{3188338,
    title = "Recent results on heavy-ion induced reactions of interest for
neutrinoless double beta decay at INFN-LNS",
    author = "Cappuzzello, F. and Agodi, C. and Acosta, L. and Altana, C. and and Amador-Valenzuela, P. and Auerbach, N. and Barea, J. and Bellone, J. and and Bijker, R. and Bonanno, D. and Borello-Lewin, T. and Boztosun, I and and Branchina, V and Brasolin, S. and Brischetto, G. and Brunasso, O. and and Burrello, S. and Calabrese, S. and Calabretta, L. and Calvo, D. and and Capirossi, V and Carbone, D. and Cavallaro, M. and Charon Garcia, L. E. and and Chavez Lomeli, E. R. and Chen, R. and Ciraldo, I and Colonna, M. and and D'Agostino, G. and Delaunay, F. and Deshmukh, N. and Djapo, H. and De and Geronimo, G. and De Los Rios, K. and Ferraresi, C. and Ferreira, J. L. and and Ferretti, J. and Finocchiaro, P. and Firat, S. and Fisichella, M. and and Foti, A. and Gallo, G. and Garcia-Tecocoatzi, H. and Hacisalihoglu, and A. and Huerta-Hernandez, A. and Kotila, Z. J. and Kucuk, Y. and Iazzi, and F. and Lanzalone, G. and Lay, J. A. and La Fauci, L. and La Via, F. and and Lenske, H. and Linares, R. and Lo Presti, D. and Lubian, J. and Ma, J. and and Marin-Lambarri, D. and Mas Ruiz, J. and Medina, N. H. and Mendes, D. and R. and Mereu, P. and Moralles, M. and Neri, L. and Oliveira, J. R. B. and and Pakou, A. and Pandola, L. and Petrascu, H. and Pietralla, N. and and Pinna, F. and Reito, S. and Ries, P. and Rodrigues, M. R. D. and Russo, and A. D. and Russo, G. and Santopinto, E. and Santos, R. B. B. and Serbina, and L. and Sgouros, O. and da Silveira, M. A. G. and Solakci, S. O. and and Souliotis, G. and Soukeras, V and Spatafora, A. and Torresi, D. and and Tudisco, S. and Vargas Hernandez, H. and Vsevolodovna, R. I. M. and and Wang, J. S. and Werner, V and Yang, Y. Y. and Yildirin, A. and Zagatto, and V. A. B.",
    year = "2020",
    publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd",
    booktitle = "27TH INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS CONFERENCE (INPC2019)",
    doi = "10.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/012074",
    abstract = "The NUMEN project aims at accessing experimentally driven information on
Nuclear Matrix Elements (NME) involved in the half-life of the
neutrinoless double beta decay (0v beta beta). In this view measurements
of Heavy Ion (HI) induced Double Charge Exchange (DCE) reaction cross
sections are performed with high-accuracy. In particular, the
(O-18,(18)Nc) and ((20)Nc, O-20) reactions are used as tools for
beta(+)beta(+) and beta(-)beta(-) decays, respectively. In the
experiments, performed at INFN - Laboratory Nazionali del Sud (LNS) in
Catania, the beams are accelerated by the Superconducting Cyclotron (CS)
and the reaction ejectiles are detected the MAGNEX magnetic
spectrometer. The measured cross sections are challengingly low (a few
nb), being the total reaction cross section much larger (a few b), thus
a high sensitivity and a large rejection capability are demanded to the
experimental set-up. This limits the present exploration to few selected
isotopes of interest in the context of typically low-yield experimental
runs. A major upgrade of the LNS facility is under way in order to
increase the experimental dataset of more than two orders of magnitude,
still preserving the high sensitivity of the present set-up. When
accomplished this effort will make the INFN-LNS as the state-of-the-art
research infrastructure for the systematic study of all the cases of
interest for 0v beta beta. In this view, frontiers technologies are
going to be adopted for the accelerator and the detection systems. In
parallel, advanced theoretical models are being developed in order to
extract the nuclear structure information from the measured cross
sections"
}