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The standard quasiparticle random phase approximation(QRPA) is widely used to describe the neutrinoless double beta decay process. Although it has been quite successful in many cases of interest, it has some shortcomings. The most important one is that its solutions collapse for physical values of the particle-particle strength. We shall show that modifications can be done which can extend the validity of this standard QRPA beyond the point of collapse. Such modifications are: The introduction of proton-neutron pairing, the inclusion of the Pauli principle and the extension of the Hilbert space. If all these modifications are introduced into the standard QRPA then the collapse does not occur for physical values of the particle-particle strengths. Thus, one might be able to extract more accurate values on the effective neutrino mass by using the best available experimental limits on the half life of neutrinoless double beta decay.
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Pantis, G., Šimkovic, F., Schwieger, J. et al. Non-collapsing QRPA for neutrinoless double beta decay. Czech J Phys 48, 209–212 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021224126965
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