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The double beta decay experiment NEMO~3 has been taking data since February 2003. The aim of this experiment is to search for neutrinoless ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay and investigate two neutrino double beta decay in seven different…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-18 A. S. Barabash , V. B. Brudanin , the NEMO Collaboration

The R&D for a new type of liquid xenon (LXe) detector is ongoing to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu2\beta$). As a result of the KamLAND-Zen experiment, it is very important to realize the all active region detector for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-20 Kota Ueshima

In this paper we describe an innovative type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC), which uses high-pressure xenon gas (HPXe) and electroluminescence amplification of the ionization charge as the basis of an apparatus capable of fully…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , J. Martín-Albo , F. Monrabal

Probing neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the primary goals for SNO+, SNOLAB's multi-purpose neutrino detector. In order to achieve this goal the SNO detector has been adapted so that it can be filled with Te-loaded liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-04 Evelina Arushanova , Ashley R. Back

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

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

Excellent energy resolution is one of the primary advantages of electroluminescent high pressure xenon TPCs, and searches for rare physics events such as neutrinoless double-beta decay ($\beta\beta0\nu$) require precise energy measurements.…

The NEMO 3 detector has been running since February 2003 with several double beta emitters. New results are given for Mo100, Se82, Nd150, Zr96, Ca48. The NEMO 3 detector properties are presented for tracking reconstruction, identification…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Lalanne

Searching for neutrinoless double beta decays ($\beta\beta0\nu$) is the only practical way to establish if the neutrinos are their own antiparticles. Due to the smallness of neutrino masses, the lifetime of $\beta\beta0\nu$ is expected to…

XENON is a project for direct dark matter search located in the INFN underground laboratory LNGS. The previous generation of XENON detector, XENON1T, achieved an exposure of 1 ton$\times$year, setting the most stringent limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-18 S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud

KamLAND-Zen reports on a preliminary search for neutrinoless double-beta decay with ^{136}Xe based on 114.8 live-days after the purification of the xenon loaded liquid scintillator. In this data, the problematic ^{110m}Ag background peak…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-02 Zen Collaboration

The NEMO collaboration is presently mounting the NEMO-3 detector in the Fr\'ejus Underground Laboratory. This detector, which will be completed by the end of the year 2000, is devoted to the search of neutrinoless double beta decay with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 NEMO Collaboration

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xe nuclei. A fiducial mass of 1000 kg, distributed in ten independent liquid xenon…

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton number violating process whose observation would also establish that neutrinos are their own anti-particles. There are many experimental efforts with a variety of techniques. Some (EXO,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 B. Schwingenheuer

N$\nu$DEx aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{82}$Se using a high pressure $^{82}$SeF$_6$ gas time projection chamber (TPC). This paper presents a simulation and analysis framework developed specifically for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-04 Tianyu Liang , Hulin Wang , Dongliang Zhang , Chaosong Gao , Xiangming Sun , Feng Liu , Jun Liu , Chengui Lu , Yichen Yang , Chengxin Zhao , Hao Qiu , Kai Chen

Material radioactivity compilations, such as the one presented here, are important enablers of science. They are useful for the selection of radiopure materials used in the design and construction of low-energy rare-event search…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-20 R. MacLellan , P. Acharya , B. Aharmim , S. Alcantar Anguiano , A. Anker , I. J. Arnquist , D. Auty , T. Bhatta , D. Chernyak , J. S. Choe , B. Cleveland , J. Daughhetee , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , Y. Y. Ding , M. L. di Vacri , J. Farine , A. D. French , O. Gileva , R. Gornea , K. Harouaka , K. P. Hobbs , E. W. Hoppe , L. K. S. Horkley , M. Hughes , L. Kieser , A. Larson , I. Lawson , E. K. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. M. Melby , B. Mong , O. Nusair , D. Pacesila , A. Piepke , N. D. Rocco , R. Saldanha , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , T. D. Schlieder , K. S. Thommasson , R. H. M. Tsang , V. Veeraraghavan , C. Vivo-Vilches , J. Vuilleumier , L. J. Wen , J. Zhao , A. Amy , A. Atencio , J. Bane , V. Belov , A. Bolotnikov , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , B. Burnell , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Q. Cao , D. Cesmecioglu , M. Chiu , R. Collister , E. Coulthard , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , M. J. Dolinski , B. Eckert , A. Emara , N. Fatemighomi , W. Fairbank , B. Foust , D. Gallacher , N. Gallice , A. Gaur , G. Giacomini , W. Gillis , F. Girard , A. Gorham , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. D. Holt , A. Iverson , A. Karelin , D. Keblbeck , I. Kotov , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , M. B. Latif , S. Lavoie , B. G. Lenardo , K. K. H. Leung , H. Lewis , X. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , M. Marquis , C J. Masbou , M. Medina-Peregrina , S. Mngonyama , D. C. Moore , X. E. Ngwadla , K. Ni , A. Nolan , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , C. T. Overman , L. Pagani , A. Pena-Perez , H. Peltz Smalley , A. Pocar , E. Raguzin , R. Rai , H. Rasiwala , D. Ray , A. M. Remnant , G. Richardson , V. Riot , R. Ross , P. C. Rowson , S. Sangiorgio , D. R. Seiner , S. Sekula , T. Shetty , L. Si , K. Skarpaas , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , S. Thibado , A. Todd , T. Totev , S. Triambak , O. A. Tyuka , T. Vallivilayil John , E. van Bruggen , S. Viel , Q. D. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , S. Wilde , X. M. Wu , H. Xu , H. B. Yang , L. Yang , M. Yu , O. Zeldovich

Compelling experimental evidences of neutrino oscillations and their implication that neutrinos are massive particles have given neutrinoless double beta decay a central role in astroparticle physics. In fact, the discovery of this elusive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Valter Bonvicini , Silvia Capelli , Oliviero Cremonesi , Giacomo Cucciati , Luca Gironi , Maura Pavan , Ezio Previtali , Monica Sisti

Large-scale low-background detectors are increasingly used in rare-event searches as experimental collaborations push for enhanced sensitivity. However, building such detectors, in practice, creates an abundance of radioassay data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-08 R. H. M. Tsang , A. Piepke , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , I. J. Arnquist , A. Atencio , I. Badhrees , J. Bane , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhat , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Q. Cao , D. Cesmecioglu , C. Chambers , E. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , J. R. Cohen , R. Collister , M. Cvitan , J. Dalmasson , L. Darroch , K. Deslandes , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , J. Echevers , B. Eckert , M. Elbeltagi , R. Elmansali , L. Fabris , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , Y. S. Fu , D. Gallacher , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , W. Gillis , C. Gingras , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , Y. D. Guan , C. A. Hardy , S. Hedges , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. Holt , E. W. Hoppe , A. House , W. Hunt , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , I. Kotov , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , M. Mahtab , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , P. Martel-Dion , J. Masbou , N. Massacret , K. McMichael , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , X. E. Ngwadla , K. Ni , A. Nolan , S. C. Nowicki , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , C. T. Overman , H. Peltz-Smalley , A. Perna , T. Pinto Franco , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , H. Rasiwala , D. Ray , B. Rebeiro , S. Rescia , F. Retière , G. Richardson , J. Ringuette , V. Riot , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , L. Rudolph , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Schwartz , J. Soderstrom , A. K. Soma , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , E. Teimoori Barakoohi , S. Thibado , A. Tidball , T. Totev , S. Triambak , T. Tsang , O. A. Tyuka , R. Underwood , E. van Bruggen , V. Veeraraghavan , M. Vidal , S. Viel , M. Walent , K. Wamba , Q. D. Wang , W. Wang , Y. G. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , M. Worcester , S. Wu , X. M. Wu , H. Yang , L. Yang , M. Yvaine , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler