Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Mo100 with the NEMO-3 detector
Abstract
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 34.7 kg .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⟩<0.3-0.9 eV (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 47 kg .y.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.111101
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvD..89k1101A
- Keywords:
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- 23.40.-s;
- 14.60.Pq;
- Beta decay;
- double beta decay;
- electron and muon capture;
- Neutrino mass and mixing