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A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{76}$Ge with 26 kg-yr of Exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
| العنوان: | A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{76}$Ge with 26 kg-yr of Exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR |
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| المؤلفون: | Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Basu, V., Bertrand, F. E., Bos, B., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Chan, Y-D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Efremenko, Yu., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hegedus, R. J., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hoppe, E. W., Howe, M. A., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Piliounis, A., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C. -H., Yumatov, V., Zhitnikov, I., Zhu, B. X. |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. C 100, 025501 (2019) |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| الوصف: | The MAJORANA Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44.1 kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched to 88% in $^{76}$Ge) split between two modules constructed from ultra-clean materials. Both modules are contained in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. We present updated results on the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge with $26.0\pm0.5$ kg-yr of enriched exposure. With the DEMONSTRATOR's unprecedented energy resolution of 2.53 keV FWHM at $Q_{\beta\beta}$, we observe one event in the region of interest with 0.65 events expected from the estimated background, resulting in a lower limit on the $^{76}$Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life of $2.7\times10^{25}$ yr (90% CL) with a median sensitivity of $4.8\times10^{25}$ yr (90% CL). Depending on the matrix elements used, a 90% CL upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass in the range of 200-433 meV is obtained. The measured background in the low-background configurations is $11.9\pm2.0$ counts/(FWHM t yr). Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.025501 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02299 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1902.02299 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.025501 |
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