“…In cases where the ground state of the intermediate nucleus has a spin and parity of J π = 1 + , its electron capture (EC) and β-decay rates to the J π = 0 + parent and daughter, respectively, are both experimentally accessible, potentially providing direct benchmarks [4][5][6]. In the cases of 100 Mo and 116 Cd, for which the intermediate ground states have J π = 1 + , the 2νββ decay matrix elements estimated using only the groundstate virtual transitions roughly reproduce the measured 2νββ decay rates [7][8][9][10], qualitatively consistent with the single-state dominance (SSD) hypothesis [11][12][13][14] 116 Cd reaction at 450 MeV and reported a value of B(GT) = 0.032 ± 0.005 [17] that was later revised to be 0.14 ± 0.03 due to problems with the target [18]. A recent (p, n) measurement at 300 MeV by Sasano et al yielded B(GT) = 0.28 ± 0.03 [8,19].…”