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Measurement of the double-\beta decay half-life of ^{136}Xe with the KamLAND-Zen experiment

We present results from the KamLAND-Zen double-beta decay experiment based on an exposure of 77.6 days with 129 kg of $^{136}$Xe. The measured two-neutrino double-beta decay half-life of $^{136}$Xe is $T_{1/2}^{2\nu} = 2.38 \pm 0.02(stat)…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-04-20 Zen Collaboration

Electroluminescence collection cell as a readout for a high energy resolution Xenon gas TPC

AXEL is a high pressure xenon gas TPC detector being developed for neutrinoless double-beta decay search. We use the proportional scintillation mode with a new electroluminescence light detection system to achieve high energy resolution in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-27 S. Ban , K. D. Nakamura , S. Akiyama , M. Hirose , A. K. Ichikawa , Y. Ishiyama , A. Minamino , K. Miuchi , T. Nakaya , H. Sekiya , S. Tanaka , K. Ueshima , S. Yanagita

Detection prospects for the second-order weak decays of $^{124}$Xe in multi-tonne xenon time projection chambers

We investigate the detection prospects for two-neutrino and neutrinoless second order weak decays of $^{124}$Xe -- double electron capture ($0/2\nu\text{ECEC}$), electron capture with positron emission ($0/2\nu\text{EC}\beta^+$) and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-30 Christian Wittweg , Brian Lenardo , Alexander Fieguth , Christian Weinheimer

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

Initial results of NEXT-DEMO, a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 experiment

NEXT-DEMO is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 using 100 to 150 kg of enriched xenon gas. NEXT-DEMO was built to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-04 NEXT Collaboration , V. Álvarez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Cárcel , J. Castel , S. Cebrián , A. Cervera , C. A. N. Conde , T. Dafni , T. H. V. T. Dias , J. Díaz , M. Egorov , R. Esteve , P. Evtoukhovitch , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , V. M. Gehman , A. Gil , A. Goldschmidt , H. Gómez , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , D. González-Díaz , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Hauptman , J. A. Hernando Morata , D. C. Herrera , F. J. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , M. A. Jinete , L. Labarga , A. Laing , I. Liubarsky , J. A. M. Lopes , D. Lorca , M. Losada , G. Luzón , A. Marí , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , T. Miller , A. Moiseenko , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , J. Muñoz Vidal , H. Natal da Luz , G. Navarro , M. Nebot-Guinot , D. Nygren , C. A. B. Oliveira , R. Palma , J. Pérez , J. L. Pérez Aparicio , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , A. Rodríguez , J. Rodríguez , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , L. Segui , L. Serra , D. Shuman , A. Simón , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , J. F. Toledo , A. Tomás , J. Torrent , Z. Tsamalaidze , D. Vázquez , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. A. Villar , R. Webb , J. T White , N. Yahlali

Experimental efforts in search of 76Ge Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most sensitive approaches in non-accelerator particle physics to take us into a regime of physics beyond the standard model. This article is a brief review of the experiments in search of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-03-12 Somnath Choudhury

Shell Model Study of the Double Beta Decays of $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se and $^{136}$Xe

The lifetimes for the double beta decays of $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se and $^{136}$Xe are calculated using very large shell model spaces. The two neutrino matrix elements obtained are in good agreement with the present experimental data. For…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Caurier , F. Nowacki , A. Poves , J. Retamosa

The Majorana Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Project

The Majorana Experiment is a next-generation Ge-76 double-beta decay search. It will employ 500 kg of Ge, isotopically enriched to 86% in Ge-76, in the form of 200 detectors in a close-packed array for high granularity. Each crystal will be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 The Majorana Collaboration , C. E. Aalseth , D. Anderson , F. T. Avignone , A. Barabash , T. W. Bowyer , R. L. Brodzinski , V. Brudanin , J. I. Collar , P. J. Doe , S. Egorov , S. R. Elliott , H. A. Farach , R. Gaitskell , D. Jordan , O. Kochetov , S. Konovalov , R. Kouzes , H. S. Miley , W. K. Pitts , J. H. Reeves , R. G. H. Robertson , V. Sandukovsky , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , R. C. Thompson , W. Tornow , V. Umatov , R. A. Warner , J. Webb , J. Wilkerson , A. Young

The NEXT-100 experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches (Conceptual Design Report)

We propose an EASY (Electroluminescent ApparatuS of high Yield) and SOFT (Separated Optimized FuncTion) time-projection chamber for the NEXT experiment, that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (bb0nu) in Xe-136. Our experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-21 NEXT Collaboration , V. Álvarez , M. Ball , M. Batallé , J. Bayarri , F. I. G. Borges , S. Cárcel , J. M. Carmona , J. Castel , J. M. Catalá , S. Cebrián , A. Cervera-Villanueva , D. Chan , C. A. N. Conde , T. Dafni , T. H. V. T. Dias , J. Díaz , R. Esteve , P. Evtoukhovitch , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , E. Ferrer-Ribas , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , A. Gil , I. Giomataris , A. Goldschmidt , E. Gómez , H. Gómez , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , K. Gónzález , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. A. Hernando-Morata , D. C. Herrera , V. Herrero , F. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , V. Kalinnikov , A. Kustov , I. Liubarsky , J. A. M. Lopes , D. Lorca , M. Losada , G. Luzón , J. Martín-Albo , A. Méndez , T. Miller , A. Moisenko , J. P. Mols , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , J. M. Monzó , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz-Vidal , H. Natal da Luz , G. Navarro , M. Nebot , D. Nygren , C. A. B. Oliveira , R. Palma , J. L. Pérez-Aparicio , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , A. Rodríguez , J. Rodríguez , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , L. Seguí , L. Serra , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , H. Spieler , J. F. Toledo , A. Tomás , Z. Tsamalaidze , D. Vázquez , E. Velicheva , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. A. Villar , R. Webb , T. Weber , J. White , N. Yahlali

Half-life of $^{136}$Xe for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay calculated with effective axial-vector current coupling unified for two-neurtino and neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay modes

The upper limit on the mass of the Majorana neutrino, extracted from the limits on the nonobservation of the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay, is hampered by uncertainties in the matrix elements of the transition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-10 J. Terasaki , O. Civitarese

The NEXT-100 Detector

The NEXT collaboration is dedicated to the study of double beta decays of $^{136}$Xe using a high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chamber. This advanced technology combines exceptional energy resolution ($\leq 1\%$ FWHM at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-12 NEXT Collaboration , C. Adams , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , Y. Ayyad , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. E. Barcelon , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodoline , N. Byrnes , A. Castillo , E. Church , L. Cid , M. Cid , X. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , C. Cortes-Parra , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , P. Dietz , C. Echeverria , M. Elorza , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , F. W. Foss , Z. Freixa , J. García-Barrena , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , J. W. R. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , Y. Ifergan , A. F. B. Isabel , B. J. P. Jones , F. Kellerer , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. Marauri , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , R. L. Miller , K. Mistry , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , K. E. Navarro , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , I. Osborne , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , I. Parmaksiz , A. Pazos , J. Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , C. Rogero , L. Rogers , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , E. Ruiz-Chóliz , P. Saharia , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Seemann , I. Shomroni , A. L. M. Silva , P. A. O. C. Silva , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , J. Soto-Oton , J. M. R. Teixeira , S. Teruel-Pardo , J. F. Toledo , C. Tonnelé , S. Torelli , J. Torrent , A. Trettin , P. R. G. Valle , M. Vanga , P. Vázquez Cabaleiro , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. D. Villamil , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS

This Letter of Intent has been submitted to the Scientific Committee of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in March 2004. It describes a novel facility at the LNGS to study the double beta decay of 76Ge using an (optionally…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Abt , M. Altmann , A. Bakalyarov , I. Barabanov , C. Bauer , E. Bellotti , S. T. Belyaev , L. Bezrukov , V. Brudanin , C. Buettner , V. P. Bolotsky , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , H. Clement , A. Di Vacri , J. Eberth , V. Egorov , G. Grigoriev , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , W. Hampel , G. Heusser , W. Hofmann , J. Jochum , M. Junker , J. Kiko , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Klimenko , K. T. Knoepfle , V. N. Kornoukhov , M. Laubenstein , V. Lebedev , X. Liu , I. Nemchenok , L. Pandola , V. Sandukovsky , S. Schoenert , S. Scholl , B. Schwingenheuer , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , A. Tikhomirov , A. A. Vasenko , S. Vasiliev , D. Weisshaar , E. Yanovich , J. Yurkowski , S. Zhukov , G. Zuzel

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of $^{76}$Ge with a Natural Broad Energy Germanium Detector

A natural broad energy germanium (BEGe) detector is operated in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) for a feasibility study of building the next generation experiment of the neutrinoless double-beta (0{$\nu\beta\beta$}) decay of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-08-19 CDEX collaboration , W. H. Dai , H. Ma , Q. Yue , Z. She , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , M. Agartioglu , H. P. An , J. P. Chang , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , Z. Deng , C. H. Fang , X. P. Geng , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , X. Y. Guo , L. He , S. M. He , J. W. Hu , H. X. Huang , T. C. Huang , H. T. Jia , X. Jiang , H. B. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , Q. Y. Li , R. M. J. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , Y. F. Liang , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , Z. Z. Liu , Y. C. Mao , Q. Y. Nie , J. H. Ning , H. Pan , N. C. Qi , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , K. Saraswat , V. Sharma , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , C. J. Tang , W. Y. Tang , Y. Tian , G. F. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. X. Wang , H. T. Wong , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , R. Xu , Y. Xu , T. Xue , Y. L. Yan , L. T. Yang , C. H. Yeh , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , J. F. Yue , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , B. T. Zhang , F. S. Zhang , L. Zhang , Z. H. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , K. K. Zhao , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu

Search for two-neutrino double electron capture on $^{124}$Xe with the XMASS-I detector

Double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay process in which two orbital electrons are captured simultaneously in the same nucleus. Measurement of its two-neutrino mode would provide a new reference for the calculation of nuclear matrix…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-05-27 XMASS Collaboration , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , K. Nakagawa , M. Nakahata , T. Norita , H. Ogawa , H. Sekiya , O. Takachio , A. Takeda , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , S. Tasaka , J. Liu , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , R. Fujita , K. Hosokawa , K. Miuchi , N. Oka , Y. Onishi , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , J. S. Lee , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , R. Kegasa , K. Kobayashi , K. Masuda , H. Takiya , H. Uchida , K. Nishijima , K. Fujii , I. Murayama , S. Nakamura

Status of double beta decay experiments using isotopes other than Xe-136

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a lepton-number violating process predicted by many extensions of the standard model. It is actively searched for in several candidate isotopes within many experimental projects. The status of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-27 Luciano Pandola

Background reduction in $^{136}$Xe double beta decay experiments through direct barium ion detection

Tagging barium ions in double beta decay experiments involving $^{136}$Xe offers a promising pathway to achieving an almost background-free environment, which is essential for addressing key unresolved questions in neutrino physics, such as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Álvaro Peralta Conde

Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with NEMO 3 and SuperNEMO

Since 2003 the NEMO~3 experiment has been searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using about 10 kg of enriched isotopes. A limit of T_(1/2)(0nu) > 5.8 10**23 years at 90 % CL has been obtained for 100-Mo from the first two years of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Soldner-Rembold

Latest Results from the Heidelberg-Moscow Double Beta Decay Experiment

New results for the double beta decay of 76Ge are presented. They are extracted from Data obtained with the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW, which operates five enriched 76Ge detectors in an extreme low-level environment in the GRAN SASSO. The two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , A. Dietz , L. Baudis , G. Heusser , I. V. Krivosheina , S. Kolb , B. Majorovits , H. Paes , H. Strecker , V. Alexeev , A. Balysh , A. Bakalyarov , S. T. Belyaev , V. I. Lebedev , S. Zhukov

An Optimal Energy Estimator to Reduce Correlated Noise for the EXO-200 Light Readout

The energy resolution of the EXO-200 detector is limited by electronics noise in the measurement of the scintillation response. Here we present a new technique to extract optimal scintillation energy measurements for signals split across…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-24 200 Collaboration , C. G. Davis , C. Hall , J. B. Albert , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , T. Didberidze , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , M. Hughes , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , J. Ling , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , D. Moore , O. Njoya , R. Nelson , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , F. Retière , P. C. Rowson , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , R. Tsang , K. Twelker , J. -L. Vuilleumier , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. Wood , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich

Xenon TPCs for Double Beta Decay Searches

Xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) have become a well-established detection technology for neutrinoless double beta decay searches in $^{136}$Xe. I discuss the motivations for this choice. I describe the status and prospects of both…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-16 Michel Sorel