1. Searching for the $\beta^+$EC and EC/EC Decays of $^{74}$Se
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E. Rukhadze, V.I. Umatov, V. B. Brudanin, Yu. Shitov, S. I. Konovalov, I. Stekl, N. I. Rukhadze, A. S. Barabash, G. Warot, A. V. Rakhimov, A. A. Klimenko, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM - UMR 6417), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
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Hadron ,Analytical chemistry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,lifetime: measured ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Water equivalent ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,energy: transition ,background: low ,double-beta decay: (0neutrino) ,Double beta decay ,0103 physical sciences ,double-beta decay: (2neutrino) ,010302 applied physics ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,selenium: lifetime ,neutrino: Majorana: mass ,neutrino: exchange ,selenium: semileptonic decay ,nucleus: transition ,Excited state ,Underground laboratory ,Hpge detector ,selenium: nuclide ,experimental results - Abstract
International audience; Double beta decay (β$^{+}$EC, EC/EC) of $^{74}$Se was investigated at the Modane underground laboratory (LSM, France; 4800 m of water equivalent) using the OBELIX ultralow-background HPGe detector with a sensitive volume of 600 cm$^{3}$ and a sample of natural selenium with a mass of 1.6 kg containing ~0.89% (~14.24 g) of $^{74}$Se. The new experimental limits for β$^{+}$EC and EC/EC decays of $^{74}$Se to ground 0$^{+}$ and excited $2_{1}^{ + },$ 596 keV, and $2_{2}^{ + },$ 1204 keV states of $^{74}$Ge, were obtained from experimental data accumulated over 135 days.
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- 2020
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