Search for Majorana Neutrinos with 1 Ton-Year Exposure Data of KamLAND-Zen

2024
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Abstract: (Springer)
KamLAND-Zen experiment is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 136^{136}Xe using a liquid scintillator detector at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan. The KamLAND-Zen detector contains 745kg of enriched xenon and we have been taking data since January 2nd, 2019. This paper reports the 1st result from the KamLAND-Zen experiment at 970 kg-yr exposure. Statistically significant excess was not observed in our region of interest (2.35<E<<E<2.7 MeV), we set a limit on the neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life T1/20ν>2.3×1026T_{1/2}^{0\nu }>2.3\times 10^{26} yr at 90% C.L. Corresponding upper limits on the effective Majorana neutrino mass is mββ<(36156)\langle m_{\beta \beta }\rangle <(36-156) meV using commonly adopted nuclear matrix element calculations.