Neutrinoless double- <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>?</mml:mi></mml:math> decay from an effective field theory for heavy nuclei

We study neutrinoless double-beta decay in an effective field theory (EFT) for heavy nuclei, which are treated as a spherical core coupled to additional neutrons and/or protons. Since the low-energy constants of EFT cannot be fitted data this unobserved decay, we follow alternative strategy constrain these through correlation with double Gamow-Teller transitions. This was recently found hold shell-model calculations, energy-density functionals, and other nuclear structure models. therefore first calculate matrix elements transitions nuclei. The combination uncertainty enables predictions broad range isotopes quantified uncertainties. Generally predicts smaller compared approaches, but our results consistent recent ab initio calculations.