Limit on the Radiative Neutrinoless Double Electron Capture of $^{36}$Ar from GERDA Phase I
Nuclear Experiment
2017-03-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Neutrinoless double electron capture is a process that, if detected, would give evidence of lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. A search for neutrinoless double electron capture of Ar has been performed with germanium detectors installed in liquid argon using data from Phase I of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of INFN, Italy. No signal was observed and an experimental lower limit on the half-life of the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of Ar was established: 3.6 10 yr at 90 % C.I.
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@article{arxiv.1605.01756,
title = {Limit on the Radiative Neutrinoless Double Electron Capture of $^{36}$Ar from GERDA Phase I},
author = {M. Agostini and M. Allardt and A. M. Bakalyarov and M. Balata and I. Barabanov and N. Barros and L. Baudis and C. Bauer and E. Bellotti and S. Belogurov and S. T. Belyaev and G. Benato and A. Bettini and L. Bezrukov and T. Bode and D. Borowicz and V. Brudanin and R. Brugnera and A. Caldwell and C. Cattadori and A. Chernogorov and V. D'Andrea and E. V. Demidova and A. di Vacri and A. Domula and E. Doroshkevich and V. Egorov and R. Falkenstein and O. Fedorova and K. Freund and N. Frodyma and A. Gangapshev and A. Garfagnini and C. Gooch and P. Grabmayr and V. Gurentsov and K. Gusev and J. Hakenmüller and A. Hegai and M. Heisel and S. Hemmer and G. Heusser and W. Hofmann and M. Hult and L. V. Inzhechik and J. Janicskó Csáthy and J. Jochum and M. Junker and V. Kazalov and T. Kihm and I. V. Kirpichnikov and A. Kirsch and A. Kish and A. Klimenko and R. Kneißl and K. T. Knöpfle and O. Kochetov and V. N. Kornoukhov and V. V. Kuzminov and M. Laubenstein and A. Lazzaro and V. I. Lebedev and B. Lehnert and H. Y. Liao and M. Lindner and I. Lippi and A. Lubashevskiy and B. Lubsandorzhiev and G. Lutter and C. Macolino and B. Majorovits and W. Maneschg and E. Medinaceli and M. Miloradovic and R. Mingazheva and M. Misiaszek and P. Moseev and I. Nemchenok and D. Palioselitis and K. Panas and L. Pandola and K. Pelczar and A. Pullia and S. Riboldi and N. Rumyantseva and C. Sada and F. Salamida and M. Salathe and C. Schmitt and B. Schneider and S. Schönert and J. Schreiner and A. -K. Schütz and O. Schulz and B. Schwingenheuer and O. Selivanenko and M. Shirchenko and H. Simgen and A. Smolnikov and L. Stanco and M. Stepaniuk and L. Vanhoefer and A. A. Vasenko and A. Veresnikova and K. von Sturm and V. Wagner and M. Walter and A. Wegmann and T. Wester and C. Wiesinger and H. Wilsenach and M. Wojcik and E. Yanovich and I. Zhitnikov and S. V. Zhukov and D. Zinatulina and K. Zuber and G. Zuzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01756},
year = {2017}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures