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Description
The two-neutrino double-beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$-decay) process is attracting more and more attention from the physics community due to its potential to explain nuclear structure aspects of involved atomic nuclei and constrain new (beyond the Standard Model) physics scenarios. Topics of interest are energetical and angular distributions of the emitted electrons, which might allow the deduction of valuable information about fundamental properties and interactions of neutrinos once a new generation of the double-beta decay experiments is realized. These tasks require an improved theoretical description of the $2\nu\beta\beta$-decay differential decay rates, which is presented. The dependence of the denominators in nuclear matrix elements on lepton energies is taken into account via the Taylor expansion. Both the Fermi and Gamow-Teller matrix elements are considered. For nuclei of experimental interest, relevant phase-space factors are calculated using exact Dirac wave functions with finite nuclear size and electron screening. The dependence of the angular correlation factor on nuclear structure parameters is discussed. It is emphasized that the effective axial-vector coupling constant can be determined more reliably by accurately measuring the angular correlation factor.
