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Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches play a major role in determining the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The Majorana Collaboration proposes to assemble an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 V. E. Guiseppe

NEXT-100 experiment aims at searching the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the Xe-136 isotope using a TPC filled with a 100 kg of high-pressure gaseous xenon, with 90% isotopic enrichment. The experiment will take place at the Laboratorio…

Searches for double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe were performed with EXO-200, a single-phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe. Using an exposure of $29.6\text{ kg}\!\cdot\!\text{yr}$, the…

The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge in a low-background liquid argon environment. Building on key technological…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-01 H. Acharya , N. Ackermann , M. Agostini , A. Alexander , C. Andreoiu , G. R. Araujo , F. T. Avignone , M. Babicz , W. Bae , A. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , A. S. Barabash , P. S. Barbeau , C. J. Barton , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bernieri , L. Bezrukov , K. H. Bhimani , V. Biancacci , E. Blalock , S. J. Borden , G. Borghi , F. Borra , B. Bos , A. Boston , V. Bothe , R. Bouabid , R. Brugnera , N. Burlac , M. Busch , S. Calgaro , L. Canonica , S. Capra , M. Carminati , R. M. D. Carney , C. Cattadori , R. Cesarano , Y. -D. Chan , J. R. Chapman , A. Chernogorov , P. -J. Chiu , C. D. Christofferson , M. L. Clark , A. I. Colon-Rivera , T. Comellato , V. D'Andrea , R. Deckert , J. A. Detwiler , A. Di Giacinto , N. Di Marco , T. Dixon , K. -M. Dong , A. Drobizhev , G. Duran , Yu. Efremenko , S. R. Elliott , C. H. J. Emmanuel , E. Engelhardt , E. Esch , M. T. Febbraro , F. Ferella , D. E. Fields , C. Fiorini , M. Fomina , N. Fuad , R. Gala , A. Galindo-Uribarri , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , S. Gazzana , A. Geraci , L. Gessler , C. Ghiano , A. Gieb , S. Giri , M. Gold , C. Gooch , G. Grünauer , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , V. Gurentsov , Y. Gurov , K. Gusev , B. Hackett , F. Hagemann , M. Haranczyk , F. Henkes , R. Henning , J. Herrera , D. Hervas Aguilar , J. Hinton , R. Hodák , H. F. R. Hoffmann , M. A. Howe , M. Huber , M. Hult , A. Ianni , K. Jędrzejczak , J. Jochum , R. W. L. Jones , D. S. Judson , M. Junker , J. Kaizer , V. Kazalov , M. F. Kidd , T. Kihm , K. Kilgus , A. Klimenko , K. T. Knöpfle , I. Kochanek , O. Kochetov , I. Kontul , L. L. Kormos , V. N. Kornoukhov , P. Krause , H. Krishnamoorthy , V. V. Kuzminov , K. Lang , M. Laubenstein , N. N. P. N. Lay , E. León , A. Leder , B. Lehnert , A. Leonhardt , N. Levashko , L. Y. Li , A. Li , Y. -R. Lin , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Love , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , N. Lusardi , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , F. Mamedov , L. Manzanillas , G. G. Marshall , R. D. Martin , E. L. Martin , R. Massarczyk , A. Mazumdar , G. McDowell , D. -M. Mei , S. P. Meireles , M. Menzel , S. Mertens , E. Miller , I. Mirza , M. Misiaszek , M. Morella , B. Morgan , T. Mroz , D. Muenstermann , C. J. Nave , I. Nemchenok , M. Neuberger , N. O'Briant , F. Paissan , L. Papp , L. S. Paudel , K. Pelczar , L. Pertoldi , W. Pettus , F. Piastra , M. Pichotta , P. Piseri , A. W. P. Poon , P. P. Povinec , M. Pruckner , A. Pullia , W. S. Quinn , D. C. Radford , Y. A. Ramachers , A. Razeto , M. Redchuk , A. L. Reine , S. Riboldi , K. Rielage , C. Romo-Luque , N. Rossi , S. Rozov , T. J. Ruland , N. Rumyantseva , J. Runge , R. Saakyan , S. Sailer , G. Salamanna , F. Salamida , G. Saleh , V. Sandukovsky , C. Savarese , S. Schönert , A. -K. Schütz , D. C. Schaper , L. Schlüter , S. J. Schleich , O. Schulz , M. Schwarz , B. Schwingenheuer , C. Seibt , O. Selivanenko , G. Senatore , A. Serafini , K. Shakhov , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , Y. Shitov , H. Simgen , F. Šimkovic , S. Simonaitis-Boyd , M. Skorokhvatov , M. Slavíčková , A. Smolnikov , J. A. Solomon , G. Song , A. C. Sousa , A. R. Sreekala , L. Steinhart , I. Štekl , T. Sterr , M. Stommel , S. A. Sullivan , R. R. Sumathi , K. Szczepaniec , L. Taffarello , D. Tagnani , D. J. Tedeschi , T. N. Thorpe , V. Tretyak , M. Turqueti , E. E. Van Nieuwenhuizen , L. J. Varriano , S. Vasilyev , A. Veresnikova , C. Vignoli , C. Vogl , K. von Sturm , A. Warren , D. Waters , S. L. Watkins , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , M. Willers , C. Wiseman , M. Wojcik , D. Xu , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , T. Ye , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov , D. Zinatulina , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

We present a search for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{136}$Xe using the full \mbox{KamLAND-Zen 800} dataset with 745\,kg of enriched xenon, corresponding to an exposure of $2.1$\,ton\,yr of $^{136}$Xe. This updated…

An efficient neutron detection system with good energy resolution is required to correctly characterize decays of neutron-rich nuclei where $\beta-$delayed neutron emission is a dominant decay mode. The Neutron dEtector with Xn Tracking…

We review current experimental efforts to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$). A description of the selected leading experiments is given and the strongest recent results are compared in terms of achieved background…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-06-29 Igor Ostrovskiy , Kevin O'Sullivan

The NEXT experiment aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 in a high-pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescence to amplify the signal from ionization. One of the main advantages of this technology is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Paola Ferrario

The review of current experiments on search and studying of double beta decay processes is done. Results of the most sensitive experiments are discussed and values of modern limits on effective Majorana neutrino mass ($<m_{\nu}>) are given.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-09-20 A. S. Barabash

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a rare process which could take place if neutrinos are Majorana fermions: the observation of this decay would provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of new Physics beyond the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-14 Giovanna Saleh

We report the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe from the PandaX-4T experiment with a 3.7-tonne natural xenon target. The data reconstruction and the background modeling are optimized in the MeV energy region. A blind…

Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay continue to expand our understanding of the lepton sector, with experiments now pursuing ton-scale target masses with sensitivity to $m_{\beta\beta}$ covering the allowed parameter space for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-10 A. Mastbaum , F. Psihas , J. Zennamo

The study of neutrinoless double-beta decay plays a fundamental role in the understanding of neutrino physics. Its observation would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles and that lepton number is not conserved. Experimental searches…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-12 Sergio Di Domizio

Of the many extensions to the standard model that could possibly generate neutrino mass, most necessitate the neutrino being a Majorana fermion. If this is the case, the rare process of neutrinoless double beta decay is predicted with half…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Ethan Brown , Kelly Odgers , Adam Tidball

nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{136}$Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC will be equipped with charge collection tiles to form…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-21 Z. Li , W. R. Cen , A. Robinson , D. C. Moore , L. J. Wen , A. Odian , S. Al Kharusi , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , A. De St. Croix , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , M. L. Di Vacri , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Ferrara , S. Feyzbakhsh , R. Fontaine , A. Fucarino , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , E. V. Hansen , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , M. Hughes , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , D. Kodroff , T. Koffas , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , P. Lv , R. MacLellan , T. McElroy , M. Medina-Peregrina , T. Michel , B. Mong , K. Murray , P. Nakarmi , C. R. Natzke , R. J. Newby , Z. Ning , O. Njoya , F. Nolet , O. Nusair , K. Odgers , M. Oriunno , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , S. Rescia , F. Retière , M. Richman , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , J. Runge , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , K. Skarpaas VIII , A. K. Soma , G. St-Hilaire , V. Stekhanov , T. Stiegler , X. L. Sun , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , T. I. Totev , R. Tsang , T. Tsang , F. Vachon , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Viel , G. Visser , C. Vivo-Vilches , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , M. Walent , Q. Wang , M. Ward , J. Watkins , M. Weber , W. Wei , U. Wichoski , S. X. Wu , W. H. Wu , X. Wu , Q. Xia , H. Yang , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , Y. Zhou , T. Ziegler

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

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay is the most sensitive technique to establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Two operating experiments that look for such decays in $^{76}$Ge -- GERDA and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR -- have…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Jordan Myslik

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 J. M. López-Castaño , I. Guinn

EXO-200 is the first phase of the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) experiment, which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 136Xe to measure the mass and probe the Majorana nature of the neutrino. EXO-200 consists of 200 kg of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-11 Nicole Ackerman

The NEMO experiment is investigating the neutrinoless double beta decay. The NEMO-3 detector is taking data in the Frejus Underground Laboratory. The goal of the SuperNEMO detector is to reach a sensitivity on the order of 10^26 year on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-06 Laurent Simard