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Sense and sensitivity of double beta decay experiments

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a very active field in which the number of proposals for next-generation experiments has proliferated. In this paper we attempt to address both the sense and the sensitivity of such…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-09 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , J. Martin-Albo , M. Sorel , P. Ferrario , F. Monrabal , J. Munoz-Vidal , P. Novella , A. Poves

Searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{136}$Xe -- towards the tonne-scale and beyond

The quest for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a promising experimental approach to search for lepton number violation in weak interactions, a key ingredient in generating the matter-antimatter asymmetry through models…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-06 Thomas Brunner , Lindley Winslow

Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter Search - Window to New Physics now, and in future (GENIUS)

Nuclear double beta decay provides an extraordinarily broad potential to search for beyond Standard Model physics, probing already now the TeV scale, on which new physics should manifest itself. These possibilities are reviewed here. First,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics suggest that neutrinos should be Majorana-type fermions, but this assumption is difficult to confirm. Observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu \beta \beta$), a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-09-25 200 Collaboration , J. B. Albert , D. J. Auty , P. S. Barbeau , E. Beauchamp , D. Beck , V. Belov , C. Benitez-Medina , J. Bonatt , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , C. Chambers , J. Chaves , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , C. G. Davis , J. Davis , R. DeVoe , S. Delaquis , T. Didberidze , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , G. Giroux , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , S. Herrin , M. Hughes , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , F. Leonard , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , D. Moore , R. Nelson , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , C. Ouellet , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , A. Rivas , P. C. Rowson , M. P. Rozo , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , S. Slutsky , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , K. Twelker , P. Vogel , J. -L. Vuilleumier , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. D. Wright , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , Y. B. Zhao

New generation of double beta decay experiments: are there any limitations?

New generation experiments on search for neutrinoless double beta decay with sensitivity to effective Majorana neutrino mass on the level $\sim$ 3-5 meV is discussed. Possible restrictions at achievement of this purpose (possibility to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 A. S. Barabash

Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel which will be filled with about 780…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-08 SNO+ Collaboration , : , S. Andringa , E. Arushanova , S. Asahi , M. Askins , D. J. Auty , A. R. Back , Z. Barnard , N. Barros , E. W. Beier , A. Bialek , S. D. Biller , E. Blucher , R. Bonventre , D. Braid , E. Caden , E. Callaghan , J. Caravaca , J. Carvalho , L. Cavalli , D. Chauhan , M. Chen , O. Chkvorets , K. Clark , B. Cleveland , I. T. Coulter , D. Cressy , X. Dai , C. Darrach , B. Davis-Purcell , R. Deen , M. M. Depatie , F. Descamps , F. Di Lodovico , N. Duhaime , F. Duncan , J. Dunger , E. Falk , N. Fatemighomi , R. Ford , P. Gorel , C. Grant , S. Grullon , E. Guillian , A. L. Hallin , D. Hallman , S. Hans , J. Hartnell , P. Harvey , M. Hedayatipour , W. J. Heintzelman , R. L. Helmer , B. Hreljac , J. Hu , T. Iida , C. M. Jackson , N. A. Jelley , C. Jillings , C. Jones , P. G. Jones , K. Kamdin , T. Kaptanoglu , J. Kaspar , P. Keener , P. Khaghani , L. Kippenbrock , J. R. Klein , R. Knapik , J. N. Kofron , L. L. Kormos , S. Korte , C. Kraus , C. B. Krauss , K. Labe , I. Lam , C. Lan , B. J. Land , S. Langrock , A. LaTorre , I. Lawson , G. M. Lefeuvre , E. J. Leming , J. Lidgard , X. Liu , Y. Liu , V. Lozza , S. Maguire , A. Maio , K. Majumdar , S. Manecki , J. Maneira , E. Marzec , A. Mastbaum , N. McCauley , A. B. McDonald , J. E. McMillan , P. Mekarski , C. Miller , Y. Mohan , E. Mony , M. J. Mottram , V. Novikov , H. M. O'Keeffe , E. O'Sullivan , G. D. Orebi Gann , M. J. Parnell , S. J. M. Peeters , T. Pershing , Z. Petriw , G. Prior , J. C. Prouty , S. Quirk , A. Reichold , A. Robertson , J. Rose , R. Rosero , P. M. Rost , J. Rumleskie , M. A. Schumaker , M. H. Schwendener , D. Scislowski , J. Secrest , M. Seddighin , L. Segui , S. Seibert , T. Shantz , T. M. Shokair , L. Sibley , J. R. Sinclair , K. Singh , P. Skensved , A. Soerensen , T. Sonley , R. Stainforth , M. Strait , M. I. Stringer , R. Svoboda , J. Tatar , L. Tian , N. Tolich , J. Tseng , H. W. C. Tseung , R. Van Berg , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , C. Virtue , B. von Krosigk , J. M. G. Walker , M. Walker , O. Wasalski , J. Waterfield , R. F. White , J. R. Wilson , T. J. Winchester , A. Wright , M. Yeh , T. Zhao , K. Zuber

PandaX-III: Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with High Pressure $^{136}$Xe Gas Time Projection Chambers

Searching for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masses in oscillation experiments. PandaX-III (Particle And…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-31 Xun Chen , Changbo Fu , Javier Galan , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Linghui Gu , Ke Han , Xiangdong Ji , Heng Lin , Jianglai Liu , Kaixiang Ni , Hiroki Kusano , Xiangxiang Ren , Shaobo Wang , Yong Yang , Dan Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Xiangming Sun , Shouyang Hu , Siyu Jian , Xinglong Li , Xiaomei Li , Hao Liang , Huanqiao Zhang , Mingrui Zhao , Jing Zhou , Yajun Mao , Hao Qiao , Siguang Wang , Ying Yuan , Meng Wang , Amir N. Khan , Neill Raper , Jian Tang , Wei Wang , Jianing Dong , Changqing Feng , Chen Li , Jianbei Liu , Shubin Liu , Xiaolian Wang , Danyang Zhu , Juan F. Castel , Susana Cebrián , Theopisti Dafni , Javier G. Garza , Igor G. Irastorza , Francisco J. Iguaz , Gloria Luzón , Hector Mirallas , Stephan Aune , Eric Berthoumieux , Yann Bedfer , Denis Calvet , Nicole d'Hose , Alain Delbart , Maria Diakaki , Esther Ferrer-Ribas , Andrea Ferrero , Fabienne Kunne , Damien Neyret , Thomas Papaevangelou , Franck Sabatié , Maxence Vanderbroucke , Andi Tan , Wick Haxton , Yuan Mei , Chinorat Kobdaj , Yu-Peng Yan

Upgrade for Phase II of the GERDA Experiment

The GERDA collaboration is performing a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{76}$Ge at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The upgrade of the GERDA experiment from Phase I to Phase II has been concluded…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Agostini , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , S. T. Belyaev , G. Benato , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , T. Bode , D. Borowicz , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , V. D'Andrea , E. V. Demidova , N. Di Marco , A. Domula , E. Doroshkevich , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , N. Frodyma , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , J. Hakenmüller , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , R. Hiller , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , L. Ioannucci , J. Janicsko Csathy , J. Jochum , M. Junker , V. Kazalov , Y. Kermaidic , T. Kihm , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Kish , A. Klimenko , R. Kneissl , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , V. V. Kuzminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , V. I. Lebedev , B. Lehnert , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , E. Medinaceli , M. Miloradovic , R. Mingazheva , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , I. Nemchenok , S. Nisi , K. Panas , L. Pandola , K. Pelczar , A. Pullia , C. Ransom , S. Riboldi , N. Rumyantseva , C. Sada , F. Salamida , M. Salathe , C. Schmitt , B. Schneider , S. Schönert , J. Schreiner , A-K. Schütz , O. Schulz , B. Schwingenheuer , O. Selivanenko , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , L. Vanhoefer , A. A. Vasenko , A. Veresnikova , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , A. Wegmann , T. Wester , C. Wiesinger , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , A. J. Zsigmond , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

Kiloton-scale xenon detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay and other new physics searches

Large detectors employing xenon are a leading technology in existing and planned searches for new physics, including searches for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) and dark matter. While upcoming detectors will employ target…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-22 A. Avasthi , T. W. Bowyer , C. Bray , T. Brunner , N. Catarineu , E. Church , R. Guenette , S. J. Haselschwardt , J. C. Hayes , M. Heffner , S. A. Hertel , P. H. Humble , A. Jamil , S. Kim , R. F. Lang , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , W. H. Lippincott , A. Marino , D. N. McKinsey , E. H. Miller , D. C. Moore , B. Mong , B. Monreal , M. E. Monzani , I. Olcina , J. L. Orrell , S. Pang , A. Pocar , P. C. Rowson , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , C. Stanford , A. Visser

Initial results on energy resolution of the NEXT-White detector

One of the major goals of the NEXT-White (NEW) detector is to demonstrate the energy resolution that an electroluminescent high pressure xenon TPC can achieve for high energy tracks. For this purpose, energy calibrations with 137Cs and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-16 J. Renner , P. Ferrario , G. Martínez-Lema , F. Monrabal , A. Para , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Botas , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , A. F. M. Fernandes , L. M. P. Fernandes , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , D. González-Díaz , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , A. I. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , V. Herrero , S. Johnston , B. J. P. Jones , M. Kekic , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , N. López-March , M. Losada , R. D. P. Mano , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , A. D. McDonald , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , J. Pérez , F. Psihas , M. Querol , J. Repond , S. Riordan , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , T. Stiegler , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , J. F. C. A. Veloso , R. Webb , J. T. White , N. Yahlali

Calorimeter R&D for the SuperNEMO Double Beta Decay Experiment

SuperNEMO is a next-generation double beta decay experiment based on the successful tracking plus calorimetry design approach of the NEMO3 experiment currently running in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM). SuperNEMO can study a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthew Kauer

Constraining the absolute neutrino mass scale and Majorana CP violating phases by future neutrinoless double beta decay experiments

Assuming that neutrinos are Majorana particles, in a three generation framework, current and future neutrino oscillation experiments can determine six out of the nine parameters which fully describe the structure of the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Nunokawa , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

Calibration of the NEXT-White detector using $^{83m}\mathrm{Kr}$ decays

The NEXT-White (NEW) detector is currently the largest radio-pure high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent readout in the world. NEXT-White has been operating at Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc (LSC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-14 G. Martínez-Lema , J. A. Hernando Morata , B. Palmeiro , A. Botas , P. Ferrario , F. Monrabal , A. Laing , J. Renner , A. Simón , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , D. González-Díaz , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , A. I. Hernandez , V. Herrero , S. Johnston , B. J. P. Jones , M. Kekic , L. Labarga , P. Lebrun , N. López-March , M. Losada , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , A. D. McDonald , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , J. Repond , S. Riordan , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , C. Romo , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , T. Stiegler , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , J. F. C. A. Veloso , R. Webb , J. T. White , N. Yahlalib

Current status of LEGEND: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{76}$Ge: Part I

Neutrinoless double-beta decay($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is a hypothetical process that violates lepton number, and whose observation would unambiguously indicate that neutrinos are Majorana fermions. In the standard inverted-ordering…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-12-10 I. S. Guinn , J. M. López-Castaño

Sensitivities to neutrino electromagnetic properties at the TEXONO experiment

The possibility of measuring neutral-current coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENNS) at the TEXONO experiment has opened high expectations towards probing exotic neutrino properties. Focusing on low threshold Germanium-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 T. S. Kosmas , O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

First results from LEGEND-200: searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}$Ge

The LEGEND Experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{76}$Ge employing active high purity germanium detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge beyond 86%. LEGEND's experimental program is articulated in two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-16 Giovanna Saleh

SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment

SuperNEMO is a next-generation double beta decay experiment based on the successful tracking plus calorimetry design approach of the recently stopped NEMO3 experiment. SuperNEMO can study a range of isotopes, but the baseline isotope is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 A. S. Barabash

New Results from the NEMO 3 Experiment

NEMO 3 is a currently running experiment to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay and to study the two-neutrino double beta decay with 10kg of enriched isotopes. On the basis of the first two years of data taking, a limit on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 V. I. Tretyak

New results on $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ appearance with the OPERA experiment in the CNGS beam

The OPERA neutrino experiment is designed to perform the first observation of neutrino oscillations in direct appearance mode in the $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ channel, via the detection of the $\tau$-leptons created in charged current…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-08-13 OPERA Collaboration , N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , S. Aoki , A. Ariga , T. Ariga , T. Asada , D. Autiero , A. Badertscher , A. Ben Dhahbi , D. Bender , A. Bertolin , C. Bozza , R. Brugnera , G. Brunetti , B. Buettner , S. Buontempo , L. Chaussard , M. Chernyavskiy , V. Chiarella , A. Chukanov , L. Consiglio , N. D'Ambrosio , P. Del Amo Sanchez , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Di Ferdinando , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievski , M. Dracos , D. Duchesneau , S. Dusini , J. Ebert , A. Ereditato , J. Favier , T. Ferber , R. A. Fini , T. Fukuda , A. Garfagnini , G. Giacomelli , C. Goellnitz , J. Goldberg , Y. Gornushkin , G. Grella , F. Grianti , A. M. Guler , C. Gustavino , C. Hagner , K. Hakamata , T. Hara , T. Hayakawa , M. Hierholzer , A. Hollnagel , B. Hosseini , H. Ishida , K. Ishiguro , M. Ishikawa , K. Jakovcic , C. Jollet , C. Kamiscioglu , M. Kamiscioglu , T. Katsuragawa , H. Kawahara , J. Kawada , J. H. Kim , S. H. Kim , M. Kimura , N. Kitagawa , B. Klicek , K. Kodama , M. Komatsu , U. Kose , I. Kreslo , A. Lauria , J. Lenkeit , A. Ljubicic , A. Longhin , P. Loverre , A. Malgin , G. Mandrioli , J. Marteau , T. Matsuo , V. Matveev , N. Mauri , E. Medinaceli , A. Meregaglia , P. Migliozzi , S. Mikado , A. Minotti , M. Miyanishi , E. Miyashita , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , K. Morishima , M. T. Muciaccia , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , Y. Nakatsuka , K. Niwa , S. Ogawa , N. Okateva , A. Olshevsky , T. Omura , K. Ozaki , A. Paoloni , B. D. Park , I. G. Park , A. Pastore , L. Patrizii , E. Pennacchio , H. Pessard , C. Pistillo , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , M. Pozzato , K. Pretzl , F. Pupilli , R. Rescigno , M. Roda , T. Roganova , H. Rokujo , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , A. Rubbia , A. Russo , O. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , Y. Sato , A. Schembri , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , I. Shakiryanova , T. Schcedrina , A. Sheshukov , H. Shibuya , T. Shiraishi , G. Shoziyoev , S. Simone , M. Sioli , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , M. Spinetti , L. Stanco , N. Starkov , S. M. Stellacci , M. Stipcevic , T. Strauss , P. Strolin , K. Suzuki , S. Takahashi , M. Tenti , F. Terranova , V. Tioukov , P. Tolun , S. Tufanli , P. Vilain , M. Vladimirov , L. Votano , J. L. Vuilleumier , G. Wilquet , B. Wonsak , C. S. Yoon , J. Yoshida , M. Yoshimoto , Y. Zaitsev , S. Zemskova , A. Zghiche

An homeopathic cure to pure Xenon large diffusion

The NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment will use a high- pressure gas electroluminescence-based TPC to search for the decay of Xe-136. One of the main advantages of this technology is the possibility to reconstruct the topology…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-17 C. D. R. Azevedo , L. M. P. Fernandes , E. D. C. Freitas , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , J. M. F. Dos Santos , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. J Gomez-Cadenas