NEMO 3 double beta decay experiment: latest results
Abstract
The double beta decay experiment NEMO~3 has been taking data since February 2003. The aim of this experiment is to search for neutrinoless decay and investigate two neutrino double beta decay in seven different enriched isotopes (Mo,Se, Ca, Zr, Cd, Te and Nd). After analysis of the data corresponding to 693 days, no evidence for decay in Mo and Se was found. The half-life limits at 90% C.L. are y and y, respectively. Using 940 days of data, preliminary results were obtained for Ca, Zr and Nd. For two neutrino decay half-life values were measured, y, y and y. Also for decay the following limits at 90% C.L. were obtained, y for Ca, y for Zr and > 1.8 \cdot 10^{22}^{150}$Nd.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.2336,
title = {NEMO 3 double beta decay experiment: latest results},
author = {A. S. Barabash},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2336},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages included 8 figures and 3 tables, Invited talk at the CISPN ("Columbia Int. Symp. on Neutrino Physics"; Columbia, USA, May 15-17, 2008) and at the 2nd Int. Conf. NPAE-2008 (Kyiv, Ukraine, June 9-15, 2008)