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Study of 2b-decay of Mo-100 and Se-82 using the NEMO3 detector

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

After analysis of 5797 h of data from the detector NEMO3, new limits on neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo-100 (T_{1/2} > 3.1 10^{23} y, 90% CL) and Se-82 (T_{1/2} > 1.4 10^{23} y, 90% CL) have been obtained. The corresponding limits on the effective majorana neutrino mass are: m < (0.8-1.2) eV and m < (1.5-3.1) eV, respectively. Also the limits on double-beta decay with Majoron emission are: T_{1/2} > 1.4 10^{22} y (90% CL) for Mo-100 and T_{1/2}> 1.2 10^{22} y (90%CL) for Se-82. Corresponding bounds on the Majoron-neutrino coupling constant are g < (0.5-0.9) 10^{-4} and < (0.7-1.6) 10^{-4}. Two-neutrino 2b-decay half-lives have been measured with a high accuracy, T_{1/2} Mo-100 = [7.68 +- 0.02(stat) +- 0.54(syst) ] 10^{18} y and T_{1/2} Se-82 = [10.3 +- 0.3(stat) +- 0.7(syst) ] 10^{19} y.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0410021,
  title  = {Study of 2b-decay of Mo-100 and Se-82 using the NEMO3 detector},
  author = {the NEMO Collaboration and R. Arnold},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0410021},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures