Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 100Mo^{100}Mo with the NEMO-3 detector

Collaboration
Nov 22, 2013
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 89 (2014) 11, 111101
  • Published: Jun 12, 2014
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Abstract: (APS)

We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) of Mo100, using the NEMO-3 detector to reconstruct the full topology of the final state events. With an exposure of 34.7kg·y, no evidence for the 0νββ signal has been found, yielding a limit for the light Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of T1/2(0νββ)>1.1×1024 years (90% C.L.) once both statistical and systematic uncertainties are taken into account. Depending on the nuclear matrix elements this corresponds to an upper limit on the Majorana effective neutrino mass of mν<0.30.9eV (90% C.L.). Constraints on other lepton number violating mechanisms of 0νββ decays are also given. Searching for high-energy double electron events in all suitable sources of the detector, no event in the energy region [3.2–10] MeV is observed for an exposure of 47kg·y.

  • 23.40.-s
  • 14.60.Pq
  • neutrino: Majorana
  • mass: upper limit
  • double-beta decay: (0neutrino)
  • lepton number: violation
  • energy spectrum: (2electron)
  • molybdenum: lifetime: lower limit
  • experimental results