Consistency test of neutrinoless double beta decay with one isotope
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-11-18 v2
Abstract
We discuss a consistency test which makes it possible to discriminate unknown nuclear background lines from neutrinoless double beta decay with only one isotope. By considering both the transition to the ground state and to the first excited state, a sufficiently large detector can reveal if neutrinoless double beta decay or some other nuclear physics process is at work. Such a detector could therefore simultaneously provide a consistency test for a certain range of Majorana masses and be sensitive to lower values of the effective Majorana mass.
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@article{arxiv.1103.4735,
title = {Consistency test of neutrinoless double beta decay with one isotope},
author = {Michael Duerr and Manfred Lindner and Kai Zuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4735},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
1+12 pages, 4 figures; v2: discussion enhanced, figures improved, matches journal version