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NEMO 3 double beta decay experiment: latest results

Nuclear Experiment 2009-07-24 v2

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 (100^{100}Mo,82^{82}Se, 48^{48}Ca, 96^{96}Zr, 116^{116}Cd, 130^{130}Te and 150^{150}Nd). After analysis of the data corresponding to 693 days, no evidence for 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay in 100^{100}Mo and 82^{82}Se was found. The half-life limits at 90% C.L. are 5.810235.8\cdot 10^{23} y and 2.110232.1\cdot 10^{23} y, respectively. Using \sim 940 days of data, preliminary results were obtained for 48^{48}Ca, 96^{96}Zr and 150^{150}Nd. For two neutrino decay half-life values were measured, T1/2(48Ca)=[4.40.4+0.5(stat)±0.4(syst)]1019T_{1/2}(^{48}{\rm Ca}) = [4.4^{+0.5}_{-0.4}(stat) \pm 0.4(syst)] \cdot 10^{19} y, T1/2(96Zr)=[2.3±0.2(stat)±0.3(syst)]1019T_{1/2}(^{96}{\rm Zr}) = [2.3 \pm 0.2(stat) \pm 0.3(syst)] \cdot 10^{19} y and T1/2(150Nd)=[9.20.22+0.25(stat)±0.62(syst)]1018T_{1/2}(^{150}{\rm Nd}) = [9.2^{+0.25}_{-0.22}(stat) \pm 0.62(syst)] \cdot 10^{18} y. Also for 0νββ0\nu\beta\beta decay the following limits at 90% C.L. were obtained, >1.31022> 1.3 \cdot 10^{22} y for 48^{48}Ca, >8.61021> 8.6 \cdot 10^{21} y for 96^{96}Zr and > 1.8 \cdot 10^{22}yfor y for ^{150}$Nd.

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@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)

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