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1. Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Author: Adams, C., Alfonso, K., Andreoiu, C., Angelico, E., Arnquist, I. J., Asaadi, J. A. A., Avignone, F. T., Axani, S. N., Barabash, A. S., Barbeau, P. S., Baudis, L., Bellini, F., Beretta, M., Bhatta, T., Biancacci, V., Biassoni, M., Bossio, E., Breur, P. A., Brodsky, J. P., Brofferio, C., Brown, E., Brugnera, R., Brunner, T., Burlac, N., Caden, E., Calgaro, S., Cao, G. F., Cao, L., Capelli, C., Cardani, L., Fernandez, R. Castillo, Cattadori, C. M., Chana, B., Chernyak, D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H., Church, E., Cirigliano, V., Collister, R., Comellato, T., Dalmasson, J., D'Andrea, V., Daniels, T., Darroch, L., Decowski, M. P., Demarteau, M., Peixoto, S. De Meireles, Detwiler, J. A., DeVoe, R. G., Di Domizio, S., Di Marco, N., di Vacri, M. L., Dolinski, M. J., Efremenko, Yu., Elbeltagi, M., Elliott, S. R., Engel, J., Fabris, L., Fairbank, W. M., Farine, J., Febbraro, M., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Fields, D. E., Formaggio, J. A., Foust, B. T., Franke, B., Fu, Y., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallacher, D., Gallina, G., Garfagnini, A., Gingras, C., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gold, M., Gornea, R., Grant, C., Gratta, G., Green, M. P., Grinyer, G. F., Gruszko, J., Guan, Y., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Gutierrez, T. D., Hansen, E. V., Hardy, C. A., Hauptman, J., Heffner, M., Heeger, K. M., Henning, R., Hergert, H., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hodak, R., Holt, J. D., Hoppe, E. W., Horoi, M., Huang, H. Z., Inoue, K., Jamil, A., Jochum, J., Jones, B. J. P., Kaizer, J., Karapetrov, G., Kharusi, S. Al, Kidd, M. F., Kishimoto, Y., Klein, J. R., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Kontul, I., Kornoukhov, V. N., Krause, P., Krucken, R., Kumar, K. S., Lang, K., Leach, K. G., Lenardo, B. G., Leonhardt, A., Li, A., Li, G., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lindsay, R., Lippi, I., Liu, J., Macko, M., MacLellan, R., Macolino, C., Majidi, S., Mamedov, F., Masbou, J., Massarczyk, R., Mastbaum, A. T., Mayer, D., Mazumdar, A., Mei, D. M., Mei, Y., Meijer, S. J., Mereghetti, E., Mertens, S., Mistry, K., Mitsui, T., Moore, D. C., Morella, M., Nattress, J. T., Neuberger, M., Ngwadla, X. E., Nones, C., Novosad, V., Nygren, D. R., Ondze, J. C. Nzobadila, O'Donnell, T., Gann, G. D. Orebi, Orrell, J. L., Ortega, G. S., Ouellet, J. L., Overman, C., Pagani, L., Palusova, V., Para, A., Pavan, M., Perna, A., Pertoldi, L., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Piseri, P., Pocar, A., Povinec, P., Psihas, F., Pullia, A., Radford, D. C., Ramonnye, G. J, Rasiwala, H., Redchuk, M., Riboldi, S., Richardson, G., Rielage, K., Rogers, L., Rowson, P. C., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sada, C., Salamanna, G., Salamida, F., Saldanha, R., Salvat, D. J., Sangiorgio, S., Schaper, D. C., Schoenert, S., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, S. E., Shitov, Y., Simkovic, F., Singh, V., Slavickova, M., Sousa, A. C., Spadoni, F. L., Speller, D. H., Stekl, I., Sumathi, R. R., Surukuchi, P. T., Tayloe, R., Tornow, W., Torres, J. A., Totev, T. I., Triambak, S., Tyuka, O. A., Vasilyev, S. I., Velazquez, M., Viel, S., Vogl, C., von Strum, K., Wang, Q., Waters, D., Watkins, S. L., Watts, M., Wei, W. -Z., Welliver, B., Wen, Liangjian, Wichoski, U., Wilde, S., Wilkerson, J. F., Winslow, L., Wiseman, C., Wu, X., Xu, W., Yang, H., Yang, L., Yu, C. H., Zeman, J., Zennamo, J., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta decay as a critical component of the future nuclear physics program. The major experimental collaborations and many theorists have endorsed this white paper., Comment: white paper submitted for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting in support of the US Nuclear Physics Long Range Planning Process
Published: 2022

2. Measurement of double-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd to the 0$^+_1$ excited state of $^{150}$Sm in NEMO-3

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Aguerre, X., Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Bystryakov, A., Caffrey, A. J., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Ceschia, M., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Evans, J. J., Flack, R., Franchini, P., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hoballah, M., Hodák, R., Hubert, P., Hussain, M. H., Jullian, S., Klimentko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Koňařík, F., Křižák, T., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Li, P., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Palušová, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Petro, M., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Pratt, S., Přidal, P., Quinn, W. S., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vereshchaka, Y., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Xie, F.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The NEMO-3 results for the double-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd to the 0$^+_1$ and 2$^+_1$ excited states of $^{150}$Sm are reported. The data recorded during 5.25 yr with 36.6 g of the isotope $^{150}$Nd are used in the analysis. For the first time, the signal of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ transition to the 0$^+_1$ excited state is detected with a statistical significance exceeding 5$\sigma$. The half-life is measured to be $T_{1/2}^{2\nu\beta\beta}(0^+_1) = \left[ 1.11 ^{+0.19}_{-0.14} \,\left(\mbox{stat}\right) ^{+0.17}_{-0.15}\, \left(\mbox{syst}\right) \right] \times10^{20}\,\mbox{yr}$. The limits are set on the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay to the 2$^+_1$ level and on the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay to the 0$^+_1$ and 2$^+_1$ levels of $^{150}$Sm., Comment: Minor corrections
Published: 2022

3. Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Author: Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Corominas, M. Guitart, Gusev, K., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Krause, P., Majorovits, B., Manzanillas, L., Muenstermann, D., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Schilling, I., Schoenert, S., Schulz, O., Schwarz, M., Štekl, I., Stommel, M., Weingarten, J., Hoppe, E., Arnquist, I., Hobbs, K., French, A., diVacri, M., Laubenstein, M., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material. PEN scintillates in the blue region and has excellent mechanical properties both at room and cryogenic temperatures. Thus, it is an ideal candidate for active structural components in experiments for the search of rare events like neutrinoless double-beta decay or dark matter recoils. Such optically active structures improve the identification and rejection efficiency of background events, like this improving the sensitivity of experiments. This paper reports on the production of radiopure and transparent PEN plates These structures can be used to mount germanium detectors operating in cryogenic liquids (LAr, LN). Thus, as first application PEN holders will be used to mount the Ge detectors in the LEGEND-200 experiment. The whole process from cleaning the raw material to testing the PEN active components under final operational conditions is reported.
Published: 2021
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4. Measurement of the double-β1501+150 decay of β1501+150Nd to the 0β1501+150 excited state of β1501+150Sm in NEMO-3

Author: Aguerre, X., Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Bystryakov, A., Caffrey, A. J., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Ceschia, M., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Evans, J. J., Flack, R., Franchini, P., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hoballah, M., Hodák, R., Hubert, P., Hussain, M. H., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Koňařík, F., Křižák, T., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Li, P., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Palušová, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Petro, M., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Pratt, S., Přidal, P., Quinn, W. S., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Tretyak, V. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vereshchaka, Y., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Xie, F.
Published: 2023
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5. LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

Author: LEGEND Collaboration, Abgrall, N., Abt, I., Agostini, M., Alexander, A., Andreoiu, C., Araujo, G. R., Avignone III, F. T., Bae, W., Bakalyarov, A., Balata, M., Bantel, M., Barabanov, I., Barabash, A. S., Barbeau, P. S., Barton, C. J., Barton, P. J., Baudis, L., Bauer, C., Bernieri, E., Bezrukov, L., Bhimani, K. H., Biancacci, V., Blalock, E., Bolozdynya, A., Borden, S., Bos, B., Bossio, E., Boston, A., Bothe, V., Bouabid, R., Boyd, S., Brugnera, R., Burlac, N., Busch, M., Caldwell, A., Caldwell, T. S., Carney, R., Cattadori, C., Chan, Y. -D., Chernogorov, A., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H., Clark, M., Cohen, T., Combs, D., Comellato, T., Cooper, R. J., Costa, I. A., D'Andrea, V., Detwiler, J. A., Di Giacinto, A., Di Marco, N., Dobson, J., Drobizhev, A., Durand, M. R., Edzards, F., Efremenko, Yu., Elliott, S. R., Engelhardt, A., Fajt, L., Faud, N., Febbraro, M. T., Ferella, F., Fields, D. E., Fischer, F., Fomina, M., Fox, H., Franchi, J., Gala, R., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Gangapshev, A., Garfagnini, A., Geraci, A., Gilbert, C., Gold, M., Gooch, C., Gradwohl, K. P., Green, M. P., Grinyer, G. F., Grobov, A., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I., Guiseppe, V. E., Gurentsov, V., Gurov, Y., Gusev, K., Hacket, B., Hagemann, F., Hakenmüeller, J., Haranczyk, M., Hauertmann, L., Haufe, C. R., Hayward, C., Heffron, B., Henkes, F., Henning, R., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hinton, J., Hodak, R., Hoffmann, H., Hofmann, W., Hostiuc, A., Huang, J., Hult, M., Mirza, M. Ibrahim, Jochum, J., Jones, R., Judson, D., Junker, M., Kaizer, J., Kazalov, V., Kermaïdic, Y., Khushbakht, H., Kidd, M., Kihm, T., Kilgus, K., Kim, I., Klimenko, A., Knöpfle, K. T., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kontul, I., Kool, K., Kormos, L. L., Kornoukhov, V. N., Korosec, M., Krause, P., Kuzminov, V. V., López-Castaño, J. M., Lang, K., Laubenstein, M., León, E., Lehnert, B., Leonhardt, A., Li, A., Lindner, M., Lippi, I., Liu, X., Liu, J., Loomba, D., Lubashevskiy, A., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lusardi, N., Müller, Y., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Majorovits, B., Mamedov, F., Maneschg, W., Manzanillas, L., Marshall, G., Martin, R. D., Martin, E. L., Massarczyk, R., Mei, D., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Misiaszek, M., Mondragon, E., Morella, M., Morgan, B., Mroz, T., Muenstermann, D., Nave, C. J., Nemchenok, I., Neuberger, M., Oli, T. K., Gann, G. Orebi, Othman, G., Palušova, V., Panth, R., Papp, L., Paudel, L. S., Pelczar, K., Perez, J. Perez, Pertoldi, L., Pettus, W., Piseri, P., Poon, A. W. P., Povinec, P., Pullia, A., Radford, D. C., Ramachers, Y. A., Ransom, C., Rauscher, L., Redchuk, M., Reine, A. L., Riboldi, S., Rielage, K., Rozov, S., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Runge, J., Ruof, N. W., Saakyan, R., Sailer, S., Salamanna, G., Salamida, F., Salvat, D. J., Sandukovsky, V., Schönert, S., Schültz, A., Schütt, M., Schaper, D. C., Schreiner, J., Schulz, O., Schuster, M., Schwarz, M., Schwingenheuer, B., Selivanenko, O., Shafiee, M., Shevchik, E., Shirchenko, M., Shitov, Y., Simgen, H., Simkovic, F., Skorokhvatov, M., Slavickova, M., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Solomon, J. A., Song, G., Starosta, K., Stekl, I., Stommel, M., Stukov, D., Sumathi, R. R., Sweigart, D. A., Szczepaniec, K., Taffarello, L., Tagnani, D., Tayloe, R., Tedeschi, D., Turqueti, M., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Veresnikova, A., Vetter, K., Vignoli, C., Vogl, C., von Sturm, K., Waters, D., Waters, J. C., Wei, W., Wiesinger, C., Wilkerson, J. F., Willers, M., Wiseman, C., Wojcik, M., Wu, V. H. -S., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Ye, T., Yu, C. -H., Yumatov, V., Zaretski, N., Zeman, J., Zhitnikov, I., Zinatulina, D., Zschocke, A. -K., Zsigmond, A. J., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless $\beta \beta$ Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one of the highest priority questions in fundamental physics. It consists of 1000 kg of Ge detectors enriched to more than 90% in the $^{76}$Ge isotope operated in a liquid argon active shield at a deep underground laboratory. By combining the lowest background levels with the best energy resolution in the field, LEGEND-1000 will perform a quasi-background-free search and can make an unambiguous discovery of neutrinoless double-beta decay with just a handful of counts at the decay $Q$ value. The experiment is designed to probe this decay with a 99.7%-CL discovery sensitivity in the $^{76}$Ge half-life of $1.3\times10^{28}$ years, corresponding to an effective Majorana mass upper limit in the range of 9-21 meV, to cover the inverted-ordering neutrino mass scale with 10 yr of live time.
Published: 2021

6. Measurement of the distribution of $^{207}$Bi depositions on calibration sources for SuperNEMO

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Birdsall, E., Blondel, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Calvez, S., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Ceschia, M., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., De Capua, S., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Franchini, P., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hoballah, M., Hodák, R., Hussain, M. H., Jeremie, A., Jullian, S., Kaizer, J., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Mora, Y., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Palušová, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Proga, M., Quinn, W. S., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žemlička, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The SuperNEMO experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$), and study the Standard-Model double-beta decay process ($2\nu\beta\beta$). The SuperNEMO technology can measure the energy of each of the electrons produced in a double-beta ($\beta\beta$) decay, and can reconstruct the topology of their individual tracks. The study of the double-beta decay spectrum requires very accurate energy calibration to be carried out periodically. The SuperNEMO Demonstrator Module will be calibrated using 42 calibration sources, each consisting of a droplet of $^{207}$Bi within a frame assembly. The quality of these sources, which depends upon the entire $^{207}$Bi droplet being contained within the frame, is key for correctly calibrating SuperNEMO's energy response. In this paper, we present a novel method for precisely measuring the exact geometry of the deposition of $^{207}$Bi droplets within the frames, using Timepix pixel detectors. We studied 49 different sources and selected 42 high-quality sources with the most central source positioning., Comment: 16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to JINST, response to reviewer comments
Published: 2021
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7. Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments

Author: Abt, I., Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Guitart, M., Gusev, K., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodak, R., Krause, P., Majorovits, B., Manzanillas, L., Muenstermann, D., Pjatkan, R., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Schilling, I., Schoenert, S., Schulz, O., Schwarz, M., Stommel, M., and Weingarten, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is ideal for most photosensor devices. In addition, PEN has excellent mechanical properties and very good radiopurity has been achieved. Thus, it is an ideal candidate for active structural components in low-background experiments. One possible application are holders for germanium detectors operating in cryogenic liquids (LAr, LN2). Such structures can help to reject surface and external backgrounds, boosting the sensitivity of experiments. In this contribution, the R\&D on PEN is outlined and an evaluation of the first production of PEN structures for the LEGEND-200 experiment is reported., Comment: Conference ICHEP2020
Published: 2020

8. Search for Periodic Modulations of the Rate of Double-Beta Decay of $^{100}$Mo in the NEMO-3 Detector

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Ceschia, M., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Franchini, P., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Hussain, M. H., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Palusova, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Quinn, W. S., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Xie, F.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Double-beta decays of $^{100}$Mo from the 6.0195-year exposure of a 6.914 kg high-purity sample were recorded by the NEMO-3 experiment that searched for neutrinoless double-beta decays. These ultra-rare transitions to $^{100}$Ru have a half-life of approximately $7\times10^{18}$ years, and have been used to conduct the first ever search for periodic variations of this decay mode. The Lomb-Scargle periodogram technique, and its error-weighted extension, were employed to look for periodic modulations of the half-life. Monte Carlo modeling was used to study the modulation sensitivity of the data over a broad range of amplitudes and frequencies. Data show no evidence of modulations with amplitude greater than 2.5% in the frequency range of $0.33225\,{\rm y^{-1}}$ to $365.25\,{\rm y^{-1}}$.
Published: 2020

9. Search for the double-beta decay of 82Se to the excited states of 82Kr with NEMO-3

Author: Arnold, The NEMO-3 collaboration R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodak, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Palusova, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Simkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobela, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The double-beta decay of 82Se to the 0+1 excited state of 82Kr has been studied with the NEMO-3 detector using 0.93 kg of enriched 82Se measured for 4.75 y, corresponding to an exposure of 4.42 kg y. A dedicated analysis to reconstruct the gamma-rays has been performed to search for events in the 2e2g channel. No evidence of a 2nbb decay to the 0+1 state has been observed and a limit of T2n 1/2(82Se; 0+gs -> 0+1) > 1.3 1021 y at 90% CL has been set. Concerning the 0nbb decay to the 0+1 state, a limit for this decay has been obtained with T0n 1/2(82Se; 0+g s -> 0+1) > 2.3 1022 y at 90% CL, independently from the 2nbb decay process. These results are obtained for the first time with a tracko-calo detector, reconstructing every particle in the final state.
Published: 2020
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10. Detailed studies of $^{100}$Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Dvornický, R., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The full data set of the NEMO-3 experiment has been used to measure the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru, $T_{1/2} = \left[ 6.81 \pm 0.01\,\left(\mbox{stat}\right) ^{+0.38}_{-0.40}\,\left(\mbox{syst}\right) \right] \times10^{18}$ y. The two-electron energy sum, single electron energy spectra and distribution of the angle between the electrons are presented with an unprecedented statistics of $5\times10^5$ events and a signal-to-background ratio of ~80. Clear evidence for the Single State Dominance model is found for this nuclear transition. Limits on Majoron emitting neutrinoless double beta decay modes with spectral indices of n=2,3,7, as well as constraints on Lorentz invariance violation and on the bosonic neutrino contribution to the two-neutrino double beta decay mode are obtained., Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2019
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11. Use of polyethylene naphthalate as a self-vetoing structural material

Author: Efremenko, Y., Fajt, L., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Kraetzschmar, T., Majorovits, B., Muenstermann, D., Öz, E., Pjatkan, R., Pohl, M., Radford, D., Rouhana, R., Sala, E., Schulz, O., Štekl, I., and Stommel, M.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The discovery of scintillation in the blue regime from polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), a commonly used high-performance industrial polyester plastic, has sparked considerable interest from the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator material. This observation in addition to its good mechanical and radiopurity properties makes PEN an attractive candidate as an active structure scintillator for low-background physics experiments. This paper reports on investigations of its potential in terms of production tests of custom made tiles and various scintillation light output measurements. These investigations substantiate the high potential of usage of PEN in low-background experiments.
Published: 2019
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12. Final results on $^\textbf{82}$Se double beta decay to the ground state of $^\textbf{82}$Kr from the NEMO-3 experiment

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N. I., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Using data from the NEMO-3 experiment, we have measured the two-neutrino double beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta$) half-life of $^{82}$Se as $T_{1/2}^{2\nu} = \left[ 9.39 \pm 0.17\,\left(\mbox{stat}\right) \pm 0.58\,\left(\mbox{syst}\right)\right] \times 10^{19}$ y under the single-state dominance hypothesis for this nuclear transition. The corresponding nuclear matrix element is $\left|M^{2\nu}\right| = 0.0498 \pm 0.0016$. In addition, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) using 0.93 kg of $^{82}$Se observed for a total of 5.25 y has been conducted and no evidence for a signal has been found. The resulting half-life limit of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu} > 2.5 \times 10^{23} \,\mbox{y} \,(90\%\,\mbox{C.L.})$ for the light neutrino exchange mechanism leads to a constraint on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\langle m_{\nu} \rangle < \left(1.2 - 3.0\right) \,\mbox{eV}$, where the range reflects $0\nu\beta\beta$ nuclear matrix element values from different calculations. Furthermore, constraints on lepton number violating parameters for other $0\nu\beta\beta$ mechanisms, such as right-handed currents, majoron emission and R-parity violating supersymmetry modes have been set., Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures
Published: 2018

13. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)

Author: LEGEND Collaboration, Abgrall, N., Abramov, A., Abrosimov, N., Abt, I., Agostini, M., Agartioglu, M., Ajjaq, A., Alvis, S. I., Avignone III, F. T., Bai, X., Balata, M., Barabanov, I., Barabash, A. S., Barton, P. J., Baudis, L., Bezrukov, L., Bode, T., Bolozdynya, A., Borowicz, D., Boston, A., Boston, H., Boyd, S. T. P., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Brugnera, R., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, A., Caldwell, T. S., Camellato, T., Carpenter, M., Cattadori, C., Cederkäll, J., Chan, Y. -D., Chen, S., Chernogorov, A., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H., Cooper, R. J., Cuesta, C., Demidova, E. V., Deng, Z., Deniz, M., Detwiler, J. A., Di Marco, N., Domula, A., Du, Q., Efremenko, Yu., Egorov, V., Elliott, S. R., Fields, D., Fischer, F., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Gangapshev, A., Garfagnini, A., Gilliss, T., Giordano, M., Giovanetti, G. K., Gold, M., Golubev, P., Gooch, C., Grabmayr, P., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Gurentsov, V., Gurov, Y., Gusev, K., Hakenmüeller, J., Harkness-Brennan, L., Harvey, Z. R., Haufe, C. R., Hauertmann, L., Heglund, D., Hehn, L., Heinz, A., Hiller, R., Hinton, J., Hodak, R., Hofmann, W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Hult, M., Inzhechik, L. V., Csáthy, J. Janicskó, Janssens, R., Ješkovský, M., Jochum, J., Johansson, H. T., Judson, D., Junker, M., Kaizer, J., Kang, K., Kazalov, V., Kermaïdic, Y., Kiessling, F., Kirsch, A., Kish, A., Klimenko, A., Knöpfle, K. T. K. T., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kontul, I., Kornoukhov, V. N., Kraetzschmar, T., Kröninger, K., Kumar, A., Kuzminov, V. V., Lang, K., Laubenstein, M., Lazzaro, A., Li, Y. L., Li, Y. -Y., Li, H. B., Lin, S. T., Lindner, M., Lippi, I., Liu, S. K., Liu, X., Liu, J., Loomba, D., Lubashevskiy, A., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lutter, G., Ma, H., Majorovits, B., Mamedov, F., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Matthews, J. A. J., McFadden, N., Mei, D. -M., Mei, H., Meijer, S. J., Mengoni, D., Mertens, S., Miller, W., Miloradovic, M., Mingazheva, R., Misiaszek, M., Moseev, P., Myslik, J., Nemchenok, I., Nilsson, T., Nolan, P., O'Shaughnessy, C., Othman, G., Panas, K., Pandola, L., Papp, L., Pelczar, K., Peterson, D., Pettus, W., Poon, A. W. P., Povinec, P. P., Pullia, A., Quintana, X. C., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Ransom, C., Recchia, F., Reine, A. L., Riboldi, S., Rielage, K., Rozov, S., Rouf, N. W., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Saakyan, R., Sala, E., Salamida, F., Sandukovsky, V., Savard, G., Schönert, S., Schütz, A. -K., Schulz, O., Schuster, M., Schwingenheuer, B., Selivanenko, O., Sevda, B., Shanks, B., Shevchik, E., Shirchenko, M., Simkovic, F., Singh, L., Singh, V., Skorokhvatov, M., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Sonay, A., Spavorova, M., Stekl, I., Stukov, D., Tedeschi, D., Thompson, J., Van Wechel, T., Varner, R. L., Vasenko, A. A., Vasilyev, S., Veresnikova, A., Vetter, K., von Sturm, K., Vorren, K., Wagner, M., Wang, G. -J., Waters, D., Wei, W. -Z., Wester, T., White, B. R., Wiesinger, C., Wilkerson, J. F., Willers, M., Wiseman, C., Wojcik, M., Wong, H. T., Wyenberg, J., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yang, G., Yu, C. -H., Yue, Q., Yumatov, V., Zeman, J., Zeng, Z., Zhitnikov, I., Zhu, B., Zinatulina, D., Zschocke, A., Zsigmond, A. J., Zuber, K., and Zuzel, G.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0${\nu}{\beta}{\beta}$) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutrino mass. A discovery-capable experiment covering the inverted ordering region, with effective Majorana neutrino masses of 15 - 50 meV, will require a tonne-scale experiment with excellent energy resolution and extremely low backgrounds, at the level of $\sim$0.1 count /(FWHM$\cdot$t$\cdot$yr) in the region of the signal. The current generation $^{76}$Ge experiments GERDA and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR utilizing high purity Germanium detectors with an intrinsic energy resolution of 0.12%, have achieved the lowest backgrounds by over an order of magnitude in the 0${\nu}{\beta}{\beta}$ signal region of all 0${\nu}{\beta}{\beta}$ experiments. Building on this success, the LEGEND collaboration has been formed to pursue a tonne-scale $^{76}$Ge experiment. The collaboration aims to develop a phased 0${\nu}{\beta}{\beta}$ experimental program with discovery potential at a half-life approaching or at $10^{28}$ years, using existing resources as appropriate to expedite physics results., Comment: Proceedings of the MEDEX'17 meeting (Prague, May 29 - June 2, 2017)
Published: 2017
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14. Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment

Author: Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Bourgeois, Ch., Breton, D., Brudanin, V., Burešovà, H., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Claverie, G., De Capua, S., Delalee, F., Duchesneau, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Holý, K., Huber, A., Hugon, C., Jeremie, A., Jullian, S., Kauer, M., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Maalmi, J., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Moreau, I., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Pater, J. R., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Rebii, A., Remoto, A., Richards, B., Ricol, J. S., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Šimkovic, F., Simard, L., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Snow, S., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Špavorová, M., Štekl, I., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: SuperNEMO is a double-$\beta$ decay experiment, which will employ the successful tracker-calorimeter technique used in the recently completed NEMO-3 experiment. SuperNEMO will implement 100 kg of double-$\beta$ decay isotope, reaching a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) half-life of the order of $10^{26}$ yr, corresponding to a Majorana neutrino mass of 50-100 meV. One of the main goals and challenges of the SuperNEMO detector development programme has been to reach a calorimeter energy resolution, $\Delta$E/E, around 3%/$sqrt(E)$(MeV) $\sigma$, or 7%/$sqrt(E)$(MeV) FWHM (full width at half maximum), using a calorimeter composed of large volume plastic scintillator blocks coupled to photomultiplier tubes. We describe the R\&D programme and the final design of the SuperNEMO calorimeter that has met this challenging goal.
Published: 2017
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15. Search for neutrinoless quadruple-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd with the NEMO-3 detector

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Patrick, C., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štefánik, D., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the results of a first experimental search for lepton number violation by four units in the neutrinoless quadruple-$\beta$ decay of $^{150}$Nd using a total exposure of $0.19$ kg$\cdot$y recorded with the NEMO-3 detector at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM). We find no evidence of this decay and set lower limits on the half-life in the range $T_{1/2}>(1.1-3.2)\times10^{21}$ y at the $90\%$ CL, depending on the model used for the kinematic distributions of the emitted electrons., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2017
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16. The BiPo-3 detector for the measurement of ultra low natural radioactivities of thin materials

Author: Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Birdsall, E., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cebrián, S., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P, Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dafní, T., De Capua, S., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Holý, K., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hugon, C., Iguaz, F. J., Irastorza, I. G., Jeremie, A., Jullian, S., Kauer, M., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Luzón, G., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Ohsumi, H., de Solórzano, G. Oliviéro A. Ortiz, Pahlka, R. B., Pater, J., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The BiPo-3 detector, running in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc, LSC, Spain) since 2013, is a low-radioactivity detector dedicated to measuring ultra low natural radionuclide contaminations of $^{208}$Tl ($^{232}$Th chain) and $^{214}$Bi ($^{238}$U chain) in thin materials. The total sensitive surface area of the detector is 3.6 m$^2$. The detector has been developed to measure radiopurity of the selenium double $\beta$-decay source foils of the SuperNEMO experiment. In this paper the design and performance of the detector, and results of the background measurements in $^{208}$Tl and $^{214}$Bi, are presented, and validation of the BiPo-3 measurement with a calibrated aluminium foil is discussed. Results of the $^{208}$Tl and $^{214}$Bi activity measurements of the first enriched $^{82}$Se foils of the double $\beta$-decay SuperNEMO experiment are reported. The sensitivity of the BiPo-3 detector for the measurement of the SuperNEMO $^{82}$Se foils is $\mathcal{A}$($^{208}$Tl) $<2$ $\mu$Bq/kg (90\% C.L.) and $\mathcal{A}$($^{214}$Bi) $<140$ $\mu$Bq/kg (90\% C.L.) after 6 months of measurement., Comment: 37 pages, 29 figures
Published: 2017
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17. Commissioning of the COBRA extended demonstrator at the LNGS

Author: Arling, J.-H., Bodenstein-Dresler, L., Chu, Y., Gehre, D., Gößling, C., Herrmann, C., Hodak, R., Kröninger, K., Macko, M., Petro, M., Rohatsch, K., Rukhadze, E., Stekl, I., Tebrügge, J., Temminghoff, R., Volkmer, J., Zatschler, S., and Zuber, K.
Published: 2021
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18. Measurement of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ Decay Half-Life and Search for the $0\nu\beta\beta$ Decay of $^{116}$Cd with the NEMO-3 Detector

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Baker, J. D., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The NEMO-3 experiment measured the half-life of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay and searched for the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd. Using $410$ g of $^{116}$Cd installed in the detector with an exposure of $5.26$ y, ($4968\pm74$) events corresponding to the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn have been observed with a signal to background ratio of about $12$. The half-life of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay has been measured to be $ T_{1/2}^{2\nu}=[2.74\pm0.04\mbox{(stat.)}\pm0.18\mbox{(syst.)}]\times10^{19}$ y. No events have been observed above the expected background while searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay. The corresponding limit on the half-life is determined to be $T_{1/2}^{0\nu} \ge 1.0 \times 10^{23}$ y at the $90$ % C.L. which corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\langle m_{\nu} \rangle \le 1.4-2.5$ eV depending on the nuclear matrix elements considered. Limits on other mechanisms generating $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay such as the exchange of R-parity violating supersymmetric particles, right-handed currents and majoron emission are also obtained.
Published: 2016
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19. Measurement of the 2$\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $^{150}$Nd and a search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay processes with the full exposure from the NEMO-3 detector

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Baker, J. D., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascell, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gòmez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Soldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We present results from a search for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay using 36.6 g of the isotope $^{150}$Nd with data corresponding to a live time of 5.25 y recorded with the NEMO-3 detector. We construct a complete background model for this isotope, including a measurement of the two-neutrino double-$\beta$ decay half-life of $T^{2\nu}_{1/2}=$[9.34 $\pm$ 0.22 (stat.) $^{+0.62}_{-0.60}$ (syst.)]$\times 10^{18}$ y for the ground state transition, which represents the most precise result to date for this isotope. We perform a multivariate analysis to search for \zeronu decays in order to improve the sensitivity and, in the case of observation, disentangle the possible underlying decay mechanisms. As no evidence for \zeronu decay is observed, we derive lower limits on half-lives for several mechanisms involving physics beyond the Standard Model. The observed lower limit, assuming light Majorana neutrino exchange mediates the decay, is $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} >$ 2.0 $\times 10^{22}$ y at the 90% C.L., corresponding to an upper limit on the effective neutrino mass of $\langle m_{\nu} \rangle$ $<$ 1.6 - 5.3 eV.., Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures, Final journal version after peer review
Published: 2016
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20. Measurement of the double-beta decay half-life and search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$ with the NEMO-3 detector

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Bakalyarov, A. M., Baker, J. D., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lebedev, V. I., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N. I., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Zhukov, S. V., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The NEMO-3 experiment at the Modane Underground Laboratory has investigated the double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$. Using $5.25$ yr of data recorded with a $6.99\,{\rm g}$ sample of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$, approximately $150$ double-$\beta$ decay candidate events have been selected with a signal-to-background ratio greater than $3$. The half-life for the two-neutrino double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$ has been measured to be $T^{2\nu}_{1/2}\,=\,[6.4\, ^{+0.7}_{-0.6}{\rm (stat.)} \, ^{+1.2}_{-0.9}{\rm (syst.)}] \times 10^{19}\,{\rm yr}$. A search for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay of $^{48}{\rm Ca}$ yields a null result and a corresponding lower limit on the half-life is found to be $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} > 2.0 \times 10^{22}\,{\rm yr}$ at $90\%$ confidence level, translating into an upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of $< m_{\beta\beta} > < 6.0 - 26$ ${\rm eV}$, with the range reflecting different nuclear matrix element calculations. Limits are also set on models involving Majoron emission and right-handed currents., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. Final journal version after peer review
Published: 2016
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21. Result of the search for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 experiment

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Baker, J. D., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Simkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The NEMO-3 detector, which had been operating in the Modane Underground Laboratory from 2003 to 2010, was designed to search for neutrinoless double $\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay. We report final results of a search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays with $6.914$ kg of $^{100}$Mo using the entire NEMO-3 data set with a detector live time of $4.96$ yr, which corresponds to an exposure of 34.3 kg$\cdot$yr. We perform a detailed study of the expected background in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ signal region and find no evidence of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays in the data. The level of observed background in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ signal region $[2.8-3.2]$ MeV is $0.44 \pm 0.13$ counts/yr/kg, and no events are observed in the interval $[3.2-10]$ MeV. We therefore derive a lower limit on the half-life of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays in $^{100}$Mo of $T_{1/2}(0\nu\beta\beta)> 1.1 \times 10^{24}$ yr at the $90\%$ Confidence Level, under the hypothesis of light Majorana neutrino exchange. Depending on the model used for calculating nuclear matrix elements, the limit for the effective Majorana neutrino mass lies in the range $\langle m_{\nu} \rangle < 0.33$--$0.62$ eV. We also report constraints on other lepton-number violating mechanisms for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays.
Published: 2015

22. Measurement of the double-$$\varvec{\beta }$$ decay of $$\varvec{^{150}}$$Nd to the 0$$\varvec{^+_1}$$ excited state of $$\varvec{^{150}}$$Sm in NEMO-3

Author: Aguerre, X., primary, Arnold, R., additional, Augier, C., additional, Barabash, A. S., additional, Basharina-Freshville, A., additional, Blondel, S., additional, Blot, S., additional, Bongrand, M., additional, Breier, R., additional, Brudanin, V., additional, Busto, J., additional, Bystryakov, A., additional, Caffrey, A. J., additional, Cerna, C., additional, Cesar, J. P., additional, Ceschia, M., additional, Chauveau, E., additional, Chopra, A., additional, Dawson, L., additional, Duchesneau, D., additional, Durand, D., additional, Evans, J. J., additional, Flack, R., additional, Franchini, P., additional, Garrido, X., additional, Girard-Carillo, C., additional, Guillon, B., additional, Guzowski, P., additional, Hoballah, M., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Hubert, P., additional, Hussain, M. H., additional, Jullian, S., additional, Klimenko, A., additional, Kochetov, O., additional, Konovalov, S. I., additional, Koňařík, F., additional, Křižák, T., additional, Lalanne, D., additional, Lang, K., additional, Lemière, Y., additional, Li, P., additional, Loaiza, P., additional, Lutter, G., additional, Macko, M., additional, Mamedov, F., additional, Marquet, C., additional, Mauger, F., additional, Minotti, A., additional, Morgan, B., additional, Nemchenok, I., additional, Nomachi, M., additional, Nowacki, F., additional, Ohsumi, H., additional, Oliviéro, G., additional, Palušová, V., additional, Patrick, C., additional, Perrot, F., additional, Petro, M., additional, Pin, A., additional, Piquemal, F., additional, Povinec, P., additional, Pratt, S., additional, Přidal, P., additional, Quinn, W. S., additional, Ramachers, Y. A., additional, Remoto, A., additional, Reyss, J. L., additional, Riddle, C. L., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Saakyan, R., additional, Salamatin, A., additional, Salazar, R., additional, Sarazin, X., additional, Sedgbeer, J., additional, Shitov, Yu., additional, Simard, L., additional, Šimkovic, F., additional, Smetana, A., additional, Smolnikov, A., additional, Söldner-Rembold, S., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Suhonen, J., additional, Szklarz, G., additional, Tedjditi, H., additional, Thomas, J., additional, Timkin, V., additional, Tretyak, V. I., additional, Umatov, V. I., additional, Vanushin, I., additional, Vereshchaka, Y., additional, Vorobel, V., additional, Waters, D., additional, and Xie, F., additional
Published: 2023
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23. Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of $^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 Detector

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Arnold, R., Augier, C., Baker, J. D., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Cerna, C., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Liptak, Z., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Richards, B., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo, 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 0$\nu\beta\beta$ signal has been found, yielding a limit for the light Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of $T_{1/2}(0\nu\beta\beta)>1.1 \times 10^{24}$ 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 $< m_{\nu} > < 0.3-0.9$ eV (90% C.L.). Constraints on other lepton number violating mechanisms of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ 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.
Published: 2013
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24. The BiPo-3 detector

Author: Loaiza, P., Barabash, A.S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Birdsall, E., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A.J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Capua, S. De, Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J.J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Holý, K., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hugon, C., Jeremie, A., Jullian, S., Kauer, M., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S.I., Kovalenko, V., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X.R., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R.B., Pater, J., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y.A., Remoto, A., Richards, B., Riddle, C.L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl.I., Tretyak, V.I., Umatov, V.I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Published: 2017
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25. Detailed studies of 100Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Dvornický, R., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T. Le, Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Published: 2019
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26. Erratum: Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Author: Efremenko, Y., primary, Febbraro, M., additional, Fischer, F., additional, Guitart Corominas, M., additional, Gusev, K., additional, Hackett, B., additional, Hayward, C., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Krause, P., additional, Majorovits, B., additional, Manzanillas, L., additional, Muenstermann, D., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Rouhana, R., additional, Radford, D., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Rumyantseva, N., additional, Schilling, I., additional, Schoenert, S., additional, Schulz, O., additional, Schwarz, M., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Stommel, M., additional, Weingarten, J., additional, Hoppe, E., additional, Arnquist, I., additional, Hobbs, K., additional, French, A., additional, diVacri, M., additional, Laubenstein, M., additional, and Zuzel, G., additional
Published: 2022
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27. Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Author: Adams, C., Alfonso, K., Andreoiu, C., Angelico, E., Arnquist, I. J., Asaadi, J. A. A., Avignone, F. T., Axani, S. N., Barabash, A. S., Barbeau, P. S., Baudis, L., Bellini, F., Beretta, M., Bhatta, T., Biancacci, V., Biassoni, M., Bossio, E., Breur, P. A., Brodsky, J. P., Brofferio, C., Brown, E., Brugnera, R., Brunner, T., Burlac, N., Caden, E., Calgaro, S., Cao, G. F., Cao, L., Capelli, C., Cardani, L., Castillo Fernández, R., Cattadori, C. M., Chana, B., Chernyak, D., Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H, Church, E., Cirigliano, V., Collister, R., Comellato, T., Dalmasson, J., D Andrea, V., Daniels, T., Darroch, L., Decowski, M. P., Demarteau, M., Meireles Peixoto, S., Detwiler, J. A., Devoe, R. G., Di Domizio, S., Di Marco, N., Di Vacri, M. L., Dolinski, M. J., Efremenko, Yu, Elbeltagi, M., Elliott, S. R., Engel, J., Fabris, L., Fairbank, W. M., Farine, J., Febbraro, M., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Fields, D. E., Formaggio, J. A., Foust, B. T., Franke, B., Fu, Y., Fujikawa, B. K., Gallacher, D., Gallina, G., Garfagnini, A., Gingras, C., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gold, M., Gornea, R., Grant, C., Gratta, G., Green, M. P., Grinyer, G. F., Julieta Gruszko, Guan, Y., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Gutierrez, T. D., Hansen, E. V., Hardy, C. A., Hauptman, J., Heffner, M., Heeger, K. M., Henning, R., Hergert, H., Aguilar, D. Hervas, Hodák, R., Holt, J. D., Hoppe, E. W., Horoi, M., Huang, H. Z., Inoue, K., Jamil, A., Jochum, J., Jones, B. J. P., Kaizer, J., Karapetrov, G., Kharusi, S. Al, Kidd, M. F., Kishimoto, Y., Klein, J. R., Kolomensky, Yu G., Kontul, I., Kornoukhov, V. N., Krause, P., Krücken, R., Kumar, K. S., Lang, K., Leach, K. G., Lenardo, B. G., Leonhardt, A., Li, A., Li, G., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lindsay, R., Lippi, I., Liu, J., Macko, M., Maclellan, R., Macolino, C., Majidi, S., Mamedov, F., Masbou, J., Massarczyk, R., Mastbaum, A. T., Mayer, D., Mazumdar, A., Mei, D. M., Mei, Y., Meijer, S. J., Mereghetti, E., Mertens, S., Mistry, K., Mitsui, T., Moore, D. C., Morella, M., Nattress, J. T., Neuberger, M., Ngwadla, X. E., Nones, C., Novosad, V., Nygren, D. R., Ondze, J. C. Nzobadila, O Donnell, T., Orebi Gann, G. D., Orrell, J. L., Ortega, G. S., Ouellet, J. L., Overman, C., Pagani, L., Palusova, V., Para, A., Pavan, M., Perna, A., Pertoldi, L., Pettus, W., Piepke, A., Piseri, P., Pocar, A., Povinec, P., Psihas, F., Pullia, A., Radford, D. C., Ramonnye, G. J., Rasiwala, H., Redchuk, M., Riboldi, S., Richardson, G., Rielage, K., Rogers, L., Rowson, P. C., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Sada, C., Salamanna, G., Salamida, F., Saldanha, R., Salvat, D. J., Sangiorgio, S., Schaper, D. C., Schönert, S., Schwarz, M., Schwartz, S. E., Shitov, Y., Simkovic, F., Singh, V., Slavickova, M., Sousa, A. C., Spadoni, F. L., Speller, D. H., Stekl, I., Sumathi, R. R., Surukuchi, P. T., Tayloe, R., Tornow, W., Torres, J. A., Totev, T. I., Triambak, S., Tyuka, O. A., Vasilyev, S. I., Velazquez, M., Viel, S., Vogl, C., Strum, K., Wang, Q., Waters, D., Watkins, S. L., Watts, M., Wei, W. -Z, Welliver, B., Wen, Liangjian, Wichoski, U., Wilde, S., Wilkerson, J. F., Winslow, L., Wiseman, C., Wu, X., Xu, W., Yang, H., Yang, L., Yu, C. H., Zeman, J., Zennamo, J., Zuzel, G., Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and HEP, INSPIRE
Subjects: [PHYS.NUCL] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], Nuclear Theory, nucl-th, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], [PHYS.NEXP] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], nucl-ex, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), double-beta decay: (0neutrino), nuclear physics, Nuclear Physics - Theory, neutrino: Majorana, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, lepton number, neutrino: mass, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, activity report
Abstract: This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta decay as a critical component of the future nuclear physics program. The major experimental collaborations and many theorists have endorsed this white paper., white paper submitted for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting in support of the US Nuclear Physics Long Range Planning Process
Published: 2023

28. Production and release of ISOL beams from molten fluoride salt targets

Author: Mendonca, T.M., Hodak, R., Ghetta, V., Allibert, M., Heuer, D., Noah, E., Cimmino, S., Delonca, M., Gottberg, A., Kronberger, M., Ramos, J.P., Seiffert, C., and Stora, T.
Published: 2014
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29. Investigation of double beta decay of 100Mo to excited states of 100Ru

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A.S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A.J., Čermák, P., Cerna, C., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Dragounová, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J.J., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Hůlka, J., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S.I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Liptak, Z., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R.B., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Ramachers, Y.A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J.L., Richards, B., Riddle, C.L., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N., Saakyan, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C.S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, V.I., Tretyak, Vl.I., Umatov, V., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Warot, G., Waters, D., and Žukauskas, A.
Published: 2014
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30. Liquid Argon Instrumentation and Monitoring in LEGEND-200

Author: Lyoussi, A, Carette, M, Hodák, R, Jenčič, I, Le Dû, P, Pospíšil, S, Reynard-Carette, C, Snoj, L, Stekl, I, Vermeeren, L, Lyoussi, A ( A ), Carette, M ( M ), Hodák, R ( R ), Jenčič, I ( I ), Le Dû, P ( P ), Pospíšil, S ( S ), Reynard-Carette, C ( C ), Snoj, L ( L ), Stekl, I ( I ), Vermeeren, L ( L ), Schwarz, Mario, Krause, Patrick, Leonhardt, Andreas, Papp, Laszlo, Schönert, Stefan, Wiesinger, Christoph, Fomina, Maria, Gusev, Konstantin, Rumyantseva, Nadezda, Shevchik, Egor, Zinatulina, Daniya, Araujo, Gabriela R, Lyoussi, A, Carette, M, Hodák, R, Jenčič, I, Le Dû, P, Pospíšil, S, Reynard-Carette, C, Snoj, L, Stekl, I, Vermeeren, L, Lyoussi, A ( A ), Carette, M ( M ), Hodák, R ( R ), Jenčič, I ( I ), Le Dû, P ( P ), Pospíšil, S ( S ), Reynard-Carette, C ( C ), Snoj, L ( L ), Stekl, I ( I ), Vermeeren, L ( L ), Schwarz, Mario, Krause, Patrick, Leonhardt, Andreas, Papp, Laszlo, Schönert, Stefan, Wiesinger, Christoph, Fomina, Maria, Gusev, Konstantin, Rumyantseva, Nadezda, Shevchik, Egor, Zinatulina, Daniya, and Araujo, Gabriela R
Abstract: LEGEND is the next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The first stage, LEGEND-200, takes over the cryogenic infrastructure of GERDA at LNGS: an instrumented water tank surrounding a 64 m$^{3}$ liquid argon cryostat. Around 200 kg of Ge detectors will be deployed in the cryostat, with the liquid argon acting as cooling medium, high-purity passive shielding and secondary detection medium. For the latter purpose, a liquid argon instrumentation is developed, based on the system used in GERDA Phase II. Wavelength shifting fibers coated with TPB are arranged in two concentric barrels. Both ends are read out by SiPM arrays. A wavelength shifting reflector surrounds the array in order to enhance the light collection far from the array. The LLAMA is installed in the cryostat to permanently monitor the optical parameters and to provide in-situ inputs for modeling purposes. The design of all parts of the LEGEND-200 LAr instrumentation is presented. An overview of the geometry, operation principle, and off-line data analysis of the LLAMA is shown.
Published: 2021

31. Final results on 82Se82Kr double beta decay to the ground state of 82Se82Kr from the NEMO-3 experiment

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A. J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J. J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Le Noblet, T., Liptak, Z., Liu, X. R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R. B., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N. I., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C. S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl. I., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Published: 2018
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32. Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Author: Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Guitart Corominas, M., Gusev, K., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Krause, P., Majorovits, B., Manzanillas, L., Muenstermann, D., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Schilling, I., Schoenert, S., Schulz, O., Schwarz, M., Štekl, I., Stommel, M., Weingarten, J., Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Guitart Corominas, M., Gusev, K., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Krause, P., Majorovits, B., Manzanillas, L., Muenstermann, D., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Rumyantseva, N., Schilling, I., Schoenert, S., Schulz, O., Schwarz, M., Štekl, I., Stommel, M., and Weingarten, J.
Abstract: Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material. PEN scintillates in the blue region and has excellent mechanical properties both at room and cryogenic temperatures. Thus, it is an ideal candidate for active structural components in experiments for the search of rare events like neutrinoless double-beta decay or dark matter recoils. Such optically active structures improve the identification and rejection efficiency of backgrounds events, like this improving the sensitivity of experiments. This paper reports on the production of radiopure and transparent PEN plates These structures can be used to mount germanium detectors operating in cryogenic liquids (LAr, LN). Thus, as first application PEN holders will be used to mount the Ge detectors in the Legend-200 experiment. The whole process from cleaning the raw material to testing the PEN active components under final operational conditions is reported.
Published: 2022

33. Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment

Author: Manzanillas, L., Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Corominas, M.G., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Majorovits, B., Muenstermann, D., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Schilling, I., Schulz, O., Štekl, I., Stommel, M., Weingarten, J., Manzanillas, L., Efremenko, Y., Febbraro, M., Fischer, F., Corominas, M.G., Hackett, B., Hayward, C., Hodák, R., Majorovits, B., Muenstermann, D., Pohl, M., Rouhana, R., Radford, D., Rukhadze, E., Schilling, I., Schulz, O., Štekl, I., Stommel, M., and Weingarten, J.
Abstract: Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial plastic which is interesting to the physics community as a wavelength-shifting scintillator. Recently, PEN structures with excellent radiopurity have been successfully produced using injection compression molding technology. This opens the possibility for the usage of optically active structural components with wavelength shifting capabilities in low-background experiments. Thus, PEN holders will be used to mount the germanium detectors in the LEGEND-200 experiment. In this contribution the ongoing R&D on PEN is outlined with a focus on the evaluation of its optical properties. In addition, the ongoing efforts for further application of PEN in the LEGEND-1000 experiment are presented.
Published: 2022

34. Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment

Author: Manzanillas, L., primary, Efremenko, Y., additional, Febbraro, M., additional, Fischer, F., additional, Corominas, M.G., additional, Hackett, B., additional, Hayward, C., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Majorovits, B., additional, Muenstermann, D., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Rouhana, R., additional, Radford, D., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Schilling, I., additional, Schulz, O., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Stommel, M., additional, and Weingarten, J., additional
Published: 2022
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35. Measurement of double beta decay of $^{150}$Nd to the 0$^+_1$ excited state of $^{150}$Sm in NEMO-3

Author: Collaboration, NEMO-3, Aguerre, X., Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Breier, R., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Bystryakov, A., Caffrey, A. J., Cerna, C., Cesar, J. P., Ceschia, M., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Evans, J. J., Flack, R., Franchini, P., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hoballah, M., Hodák, R., Hubert, P., Hussain, M. H., Jullian, S., Klimentko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Koňařík, F., Křižák, T., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Li, P., Liptak, Z., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R. B., Palušová, V., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Petro, M., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Pratt, S., Přidal, P., Quinn, W. S., Ramachers, Y. A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J. L., Riddle, C. L., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vanushin, I., Vereshchaka, Y., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., and Xie, F.
Subjects: FOS: Physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: NEMO-3 results for the double beta decay of $^{150}$Nd to the 0 $^+_1$ and 2$^+_1$ excited states of $^{150}$Sm are reported. The data recorded during 5.25 y with 36.6 g of the isotope $^{150}$Nd were used in the analysis. For the first time the signal of $2\nu\beta\beta$ transition to the 0$^+_1$ excited state is detected with statistical significance exceeding 5 sigma. The half-life is measured to be $T_{1/2}^{2\nu\beta\beta}(0^+_1) = \left[ 1.11 ^{+0.19}_{-0.14} \,\left(\mbox{stat}\right) ^{+0.17}_{-0.15}\, \left(\mbox{syst}\right) \right] \times10^{20}\,\mbox{y}$. Limits are set on $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay to 2$^+_1$ level and on $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay to 0$^+_1$ and 2$^+_1$ levels of $^{150}$Sm., Comment: Minor corrections. Author list adapted to new collaboration rules
Published: 2022
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36. Advanced plastic scintillation detectors for low-background experiments

Author: Hodák, R., primary, Burešová, H., additional, Fajt, L., additional, Pjatkan, R., additional, and Štekl, I., additional
Published: 2022
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37. Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Author: Efremenko, Y., primary, Febbraro, M., additional, Fischer, F., additional, Guitart Corominas, M., additional, Gusev, K., additional, Hackett, B., additional, Hayward, C., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Krause, P., additional, Majorovits, B., additional, Manzanillas, L., additional, Muenstermann, D., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Rouhana, R., additional, Radford, D., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Rumyantseva, N., additional, Schilling, I., additional, Schoenert, S., additional, Schulz, O., additional, Schwarz, M., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Stommel, M., additional, and Weingarten, J., additional
Published: 2022
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38. Measurement of the distribution of 207Bi depositions on calibration sources for SuperNEMO

Author: Arnold, R, Augier, C, Barabash, AS, Basharina-Freshville, A, Birdsall, E, Blondel, S, Bongrand, M, Boursette, D, Breier, R, Brudanin, V, Busto, J, Calvez, S, Cerna, C, Cesar, JP, Ceschia, M, Chapon, A, Chauveau, E, Chopra, A, Dawson, L, Capua, SD, Duchesneau, D, Durand, D, Eurin, G, Evans, JJ, Filosofov, D, Flack, R, Franchini, P, Girard-Carillo, C, Gómez, H, Guillon, B, Guzowski, P, Hoballah, M, Hodák, R, Hussain, MH, Jeremie, A, Jullian, S, Kaizer, J, Klimenko, A, Kochetov, O, Konovalov, SI, Kovalenko, V, Lalanne, D, Lang, K, Lemière, Y, Noblet, TL, Liptak, Z, Liu, XR, Loaiza, P, Macko, M, Macolino, C, Marquet, C, Mauger, F, Minotti, A, Mora, Y, Morgan, B, Mott, J, Nemchenok, I, Nomachi, M, Nova, F, Nowacki, F, Ohsumi, H, Oliviéro, G, Pahlka, RB, Palušová, V, Patrick, C, Perrot, F, Pin, A, Piquemal, F, Povinec, P, Proga, M, Quinn, WS, Ramachers, YA, Remoto, A, Reyss, JL, Saakyan, R, Salamatin, A, Salazar, R, Sarazin, X, Sedgbeer, J, Shitov, Y, Simard, L, Šimkovic, F, Smolnikov, A, Söldner-Rembold, S, Štekl, I, Suhonen, J, Sutton, CS, Szklarz, G, Tedjditi, H, Thomas, J, Timkin, V, Torre, S, Tretyak, VI, Umatov, VI, Vilela, C, Vorobel, V, Waters, D, Xie, F, and Žemlička, J
Subjects: physics.ins-det
Abstract: The SuperNEMO experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$), and study the Standard-Model double-beta decay process ($2\nu\beta\beta$). The SuperNEMO technology can measure the energy of each of the electrons produced in a double-beta ($\beta\beta$) decay, and can reconstruct the topology of their individual tracks. The study of the double-beta decay spectrum requires very accurate energy calibration to be carried out periodically. The SuperNEMO Demonstrator Module will be calibrated using 42 calibration sources, each consisting of a droplet of $^{207}$Bi within a frame assembly. The quality of these sources, which depends upon the entire $^{207}$Bi droplet being contained within the frame, is key for correctly calibrating SuperNEMO's energy response. In this paper, we present a novel method for precisely measuring the exact geometry of the deposition of $^{207}$Bi droplets within the frames, using Timepix pixel detectors. We studied 49 different sources and selected 42 high-quality sources with the most central source positioning.
Published: 2021

39. Measurement of the distribution of ^207Bi depositions on calibration sources for SuperNEMO

Author: Arnold, R., additional, Augier, C., additional, Barabash, A.S., additional, Basharina-Freshville, A., additional, Birdsall, E., additional, Blondel, S., additional, Bongrand, M., additional, Boursette, D., additional, Breier, R., additional, Brudanin, V., additional, Busto, J., additional, Calvez, S., additional, Cerna, C., additional, Cesar, J.P., additional, Ceschia, M., additional, Chapon, A., additional, Chauveau, E., additional, Chopra, A., additional, Dawson, L., additional, De Capua, S., additional, Duchesneau, D., additional, Durand, D., additional, Eurin, G., additional, Evans, J.J., additional, Filosofov, D., additional, Flack, R., additional, Franchini, P., additional, Girard-Carillo, C., additional, Gómez, H., additional, Guillon, B., additional, Guzowski, P., additional, Hoballah, M., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Hussain, M.H., additional, Jeremie, A., additional, Jullian, S., additional, Kaizer, J., additional, Klimenko, A., additional, Kochetov, O., additional, Konovalov, S.I., additional, Kovalenko, V., additional, Lalanne, D., additional, Lang, K., additional, Lemière, Y., additional, Le Noblet, T., additional, Liptak, Z., additional, Liu, X.R., additional, Loaiza, P., additional, Macko, M., additional, Macolino, C., additional, Marquet, C., additional, Mauger, F., additional, Minotti, A., additional, Mora, Y., additional, Morgan, B., additional, Mott, J., additional, Nemchenok, I., additional, Nomachi, M., additional, Nova, F., additional, Nowacki, F., additional, Ohsumi, H., additional, Oliviéro, G., additional, Pahlka, R.B., additional, Palušová, V., additional, Patrick, C., additional, Perrot, F., additional, Pin, A., additional, Piquemal, F., additional, Povinec, P., additional, Proga, M., additional, Quinn, W.S., additional, Ramachers, Y.A., additional, Remoto, A., additional, Reyss, J.L., additional, Saakyan, R., additional, Salamatin, A., additional, Salazar, R., additional, Sarazin, X., additional, Sedgbeer, J., additional, Shitov, Yu., additional, Simard, L., additional, Šimkovic, F., additional, Smolnikov, A., additional, Söldner-Rembold, S., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Suhonen, J., additional, Sutton, C.S., additional, Szklarz, G., additional, Tedjditi, H., additional, Thomas, J., additional, Timkin, V., additional, Torre, S., additional, Tretyak, Vl.I., additional, Tretyak, V.I., additional, Umatov, V.I., additional, Vilela, C., additional, Vorobel, V., additional, Waters, D., additional, Xie, F., additional, and Žemlička, J., additional
Published: 2021
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40. Use of poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a self-vetoing structural material

Author: Efremenko, Y, Fajt, L, Febbraro, M, Fischer, F, Guitart, M, Hackett, B, Hayward, C, Hodák, R, Majorovits, B, Manzanillas, L, Muenstermann, D, Öz, E, Pjatkan, R, Pohl, M, Radford, D, Rouhana, R, Schulz, O, Štekl, I, Stommel, M, Efremenko, Y, Fajt, L, Febbraro, M, Fischer, F, Guitart, M, Hackett, B, Hayward, C, Hodák, R, Majorovits, B, Manzanillas, L, Muenstermann, D, Öz, E, Pjatkan, R, Pohl, M, Radford, D, Rouhana, R, Schulz, O, Štekl, I, and Stommel, M
Abstract: Poly(ethylene naphthalate), PEN, is an industrial polyester which has been shown to scintillate in the blue wavelength region. Combined with measurements of a high intrinsic radiopurity, this has sparked interest in the material for use in low-background experiments.
Published: 2020

41. Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments

Author: Manzanillas, Luis, primary, Abt, Iris, additional, Efremenko, Yuri, additional, Febbraro, M., additional, Fischer, F., additional, Guitart, M., additional, Gusev, Konstantin, additional, Hackett, B., additional, Hayward, C., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Krause, P., additional, Majorovits, B., additional, Muenstermann, Daniel, additional, Pjatkan, R., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Rouhana, R., additional, Radford, D.C., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Rumyantseva, N., additional, Schilling, I., additional, Schoenert, S., additional, Schultz, O., additional, Schwartz, M., additional, Stommel, M., additional, and Weingarten, J., additional
Published: 2021
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42. Search for the double-beta decay of 82Se to the excited states of 82Kr with NEMO-3

Author: Arnold, R., primary, Augier, C., additional, Barabash, A.S., additional, Basharina-Freshville, A., additional, Blondel, S., additional, Blot, S., additional, Bongrand, M., additional, Boursette, D., additional, Breier, R., additional, Brudanin, V., additional, Busto, J., additional, Caffrey, A.J., additional, Calvez, S., additional, Cascella, M., additional, Cerna, C., additional, Cesar, J.P., additional, Chapon, A., additional, Chauveau, E., additional, Chopra, A., additional, Dawson, L., additional, Duchesneau, D., additional, Durand, D., additional, Egorov, V., additional, Eurin, G., additional, Evans, J.J., additional, Fajt, L., additional, Filosofov, D., additional, Flack, R., additional, Garrido, X., additional, Girard-Carillo, C., additional, Gómez, H., additional, Guillon, B., additional, Guzowski, P., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Huber, A., additional, Hubert, P., additional, Hugon, C., additional, Jullian, S., additional, Klimenko, A., additional, Kochetov, O., additional, Konovalov, S.I., additional, Kovalenko, V., additional, Lalanne, D., additional, Lang, K., additional, Lemière, Y., additional, Le Noblet, T., additional, Liptak, Z., additional, Liu, X.R., additional, Loaiza, P., additional, Lutter, G., additional, Macko, M., additional, Macolino, C., additional, Mamedov, F., additional, Marquet, C., additional, Mauger, F., additional, Minotti, A., additional, Morgan, B., additional, Mott, J., additional, Nemchenok, I., additional, Nomachi, M., additional, Nova, F., additional, Nowacki, F., additional, Ohsumi, H., additional, Oliviéro, G., additional, Pahlka, R.B., additional, Palusova, V., additional, Patrick, C., additional, Perrot, F., additional, Pin, A., additional, Piquemal, F., additional, Povinec, P., additional, Přidal, P., additional, Ramachers, Y.A., additional, Remoto, A., additional, Reyss, J.L., additional, Richards, B., additional, Riddle, C.L., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Saakyan, R., additional, Salazar, R., additional, Sarazin, X., additional, Sedgbeer, J., additional, Shitov, Yu., additional, Simard, L., additional, Šimkovic, F., additional, Smetana, A., additional, Smolek, K., additional, Smolnikov, A., additional, Söldner-Rembold, S., additional, Soulé, B., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Suhonen, J., additional, Sutton, C.S., additional, Szklarz, G., additional, Tedjditi, H., additional, Thomas, J., additional, Timkin, V., additional, Torre, S., additional, Tretyak, Vl.I., additional, Tretyak, V.I., additional, Umatov, V.I., additional, Vanushin, I., additional, Vilela, C., additional, Vorobel, V., additional, Waters, D., additional, Xie, F., additional, and Žukauskas, A., additional
Published: 2020
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43. Use of poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a self-vetoing structural material

Author: Efremenko, Y, primary, Fajt, L, additional, Febbraro, M, additional, Fischer, F, additional, Guitart, M, additional, Hackett, B, additional, Hayward, C, additional, Hodák, R, additional, Majorovits, B, additional, Manzanillas, L, additional, Muenstermann, D, additional, Öz, E, additional, Pjatkan, R, additional, Pohl, M, additional, Radford, D, additional, Rouhana, R, additional, Schulz, O, additional, Štekl, I, additional, and Stommel, M, additional
Published: 2020
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44. Detailed studies of $$^{100}$$ <math><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>100</mn></msup></math> Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Dvornický, R., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Girard-Carillo, C., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T., Liptak, Z., Liu, X., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macko, M., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Minotti, A., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Oliviéro, G., Pahlka, R., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Pin, A., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y., Remoto, A., Reyss, J., Riddle, C., Rukhadze, E., Saakyan, R., Salamatin, A., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Sedgbeer, J., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C., Szklarz, G., Tedjditi, H., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl., Tretyak, V., Umatov, V., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Abstract: The full data set of the NEMO-3 experiment has been used to measure the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of $$^{100}$$ 100 Mo to the ground state of $$^{100}$$ 100 Ru, $$T_{1/2} = \left[ 6.81 \pm 0.01\,\left( \text{ stat }\right) ^{+0.38}_{-0.40}\,\left( \text{ syst }\right) \right] \times 10^{18}$$ T1/2=6.81±0.01stat-0.40+0.38syst×1018 year. The two-electron energy sum, single electron energy spectra and distribution of the angle between the electrons are presented with an unprecedented statistics of $$5\times 10^5$$ 5×105 events and a signal-to-background ratio of $$\sim $$ ∼ 80. Clear evidence for the Single State Dominance model is found for this nuclear transition. Limits on Majoron emitting neutrinoless double beta decay modes with spectral indices of $$\mathrm{n}=2,3,7$$ n=2,3,7 , as well as constraints on Lorentz invariance violation and on the bosonic neutrino contribution to the two-neutrino double beta decay mode are obtained.
Published: 2019

45. Final results on $${}^\mathbf{82 }{\hbox {Se}}$$ <math><mrow><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>82</mn></msup><mtext>Se</mtext></mrow></math> double beta decay to the ground state of $${}^\mathbf{82 }{\hbox {Kr}}$$ <math><mrow><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>82</mn></msup><mtext>Kr</mtext></mrow></math> from the NEMO-3 experiment

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Noblet, T., Liptak, Z., Liu, X., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y., Remoto, A., Reyss, J., Riddle, C., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl., Tretyak, V., Umatov, V., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., and Žukauskas, A.
Abstract: Using data from the NEMO-3 experiment, we have measured the two-neutrino double beta decay ($$2\nu \beta \beta $$ 2νββ ) half-life of $$^{82}$$ 82 Se as $$T_{\smash {1/2}}^{2\nu } \!=\! \left[ 9.39 \pm 0.17\left( \text{ stat }\right) \pm 0.58\left( \text{ syst }\right) \right] \times 10^{19}$$ T1/22ν=9.39±0.17stat±0.58syst×1019 y under the single-state dominance hypothesis for this nuclear transition. The corresponding nuclear matrix element is $$\left| M^{2\nu }\right| = 0.0498 \pm 0.0016$$ M2ν=0.0498±0.0016 . In addition, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($$0\nu \beta \beta $$ 0νββ ) using 0.93 kg of $$^{82}$$ 82 Se observed for a total of 5.25 y has been conducted and no evidence for a signal has been found. The resulting half-life limit of $$T_{1/2}^{0\nu } > 2.5 \times 10^{23} \,\text{ y } \,(90\%\,\text{ C.L. })$$ T1/20ν>2.5×1023y(90%C.L.) for the light neutrino exchange mechanism leads to a constraint on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of $$\langle m_{\nu } \rangle < \left( 1.2{-}3.0\right) \,\text{ eV }$$ ⟨mν⟩<1.2-3.0eV , where the range reflects $$0\nu \beta \beta $$ 0νββ nuclear matrix element values from different calculations. Furthermore, constraints on lepton number violating parameters for other $$0\nu \beta \beta $$ 0νββ mechanisms, such as right-handed currents, majoron emission and R-parity violating supersymmetry modes have been set.
Published: 2018

46. Final results on $^{82}{Se}$ double beta decay to the ground state of $^{82}{Kr}$ from the NEMO-3 experiment

Author: Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A.S., Basharina-Freshville, A., Blondel, S., Blot, S., Bongrand, M., Boursette, D., Brudanin, V., Busto, J., Caffrey, A.J., Calvez, S., Cascella, M., Cerna, C., Cesar, J.P., Chapon, A., Chauveau, E., Chopra, A., Dawson, L., Duchesneau, D., Durand, D., Egorov, V., Eurin, G., Evans, J.J., Fajt, L., Filosofov, D., Flack, R., Garrido, X., Gómez, H., Guillon, B., Guzowski, P., Hodák, R., Huber, A., Hubert, P., Hugon, C., Jullian, S., Klimenko, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S.I., Kovalenko, V., Lalanne, D., Lang, K., Lemière, Y., Le Noblet, T., Liptak, Z., Liu, X.R., Loaiza, P., Lutter, G., Macolino, C., Mamedov, F., Marquet, C., Mauger, F., Morgan, B., Mott, J., Nemchenok, I., Nomachi, M., Nova, F., Nowacki, F., Ohsumi, H., Pahlka, R.B., Patrick, C., Perrot, F., Piquemal, F., Povinec, P., Přidal, P., Ramachers, Y.A., Remoto, A., Reyss, J.L., Riddle, C.L., Rukhadze, E., Rukhadze, N.I., Saakyan, R., Salazar, R., Sarazin, X., Shitov, Yu., Simard, L., Šimkovic, F., Smetana, A., Smolek, K., Smolnikov, A., Söldner-Rembold, S., Soulé, B., Štekl, I., Suhonen, J., Sutton, C.S., Szklarz, G., Thomas, J., Timkin, V., Torre, S., Tretyak, Vl.I., Tretyak, V.I., Umatov, V.I., Vanushin, I., Vilela, C., Vorobel, V., Waters, D., Xie, F., Žukauskas, A., Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM - UMR 6417), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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]), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-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])-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Subjects: S029MT, S076H0N, R parity: violation, neutrino: Majorana: mass, selenium: lifetime, lifetime: measured, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], S076ETA, right-handed, neutrino: exchange, Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory, nucleus: transition, selenium: semileptonic decay, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Majoron: production, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], S076MW, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), ground state, supersymmetry, lepton number: violation, S076H2N, experimental results
Abstract: International audience; Using data from the NEMO-3 experiment, we have measured the two-neutrino double beta decay ( $2\nu \beta \beta $ ) half-life of$^{82}$ Se as $T_{\smash {1/2}}^{2\nu } \!=\! \left[ 9.39 \pm 0.17\left( \text{ stat }\right) \pm 0.58\left( \text{ syst }\right) \right] \times 10^{19}$ y under the single-state dominance hypothesis for this nuclear transition. The corresponding nuclear matrix element is $\left| M^{2\nu }\right| = 0.0498 \pm 0.0016$ . In addition, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay ( $0\nu \beta \beta $ ) using 0.93 kg of$^{82}$ Se observed for a total of 5.25 y has been conducted and no evidence for a signal has been found. The resulting half-life limit of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu } > 2.5 \times 10^{23} \,\text{ y } \,(90\%\,\text{ C.L. })$ for the light neutrino exchange mechanism leads to a constraint on the effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\langle m_{\nu } \rangle < \left( 1.2{-}3.0\right) \,\text{ eV }$ , where the range reflects $0\nu \beta \beta $ nuclear matrix element values from different calculations. Furthermore, constraints on lepton number violating parameters for other $0\nu \beta \beta $ mechanisms, such as right-handed currents, majoron emission and R-parity violating supersymmetry modes have been set.
Published: 2018

47. Characterization and long-term performance of the Radon Trapping Facility operating at the Modane Underground Laboratory

Author: Hodák, R, primary, Perrot, F, additional, Brudanin, V, additional, Busto, J, additional, Havelcová, M, additional, Hůlka, J, additional, Jullian, S, additional, Kochetov, O, additional, Lalanne, D, additional, Loaiza, P, additional, Macl, J, additional, Mamedov, F, additional, Mizera, J, additional, Noel, R, additional, Piquemal, F, additional, Rukhadze, E, additional, Rulík, P, additional, Smolek, K, additional, Soulé, B, additional, Suchá, T, additional, Svetlík, I, additional, Štekl, I, additional, Warot, G, additional, Zampaolo, M, additional, and Žaloudková, M, additional
Published: 2019
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48. Use of poly(ethylene naphthalate) as a self-vetoing structural material

Author: Efremenko, Y., primary, Fajt, L., additional, Febbraro, M., additional, Fischer, F., additional, Hayward, C., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Kraetzschmar, T., additional, Majorovits, B., additional, Muenstermann, D., additional, Öz, E., additional, Pjatkan, R., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Radford, D., additional, Rouhana, R., additional, Sala, E., additional, Schulz, O., additional, Štekl, I., additional, and Stommel, M., additional
Published: 2019
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49. Development of methods for the preparation of radiopure 82Se sources for the SuperNEMO neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment

Author: Rakhimov, Alimardon V., primary, Barabash, A. S., additional, Basharina-Freshville, A., additional, Blot, S., additional, Bongrand, M., additional, Bourgeois, Ch., additional, Breton, D., additional, Breier, R., additional, Birdsall, E., additional, Brudanin, V. B., additional, Burešova, H., additional, Busto, J., additional, Calvez, S., additional, Cascella, M., additional, Cerna, C., additional, Cesar, J. P., additional, Chauveau, E., additional, Chopra, A., additional, Claverie, G., additional, De Capua, S., additional, Delalee, F., additional, Duchesneau, D., additional, Egorov, V. G., additional, Eurin, G., additional, Evans, J. J., additional, Fajt, L., additional, Filosofov, D. V., additional, Flack, R., additional, Garrido, X., additional, Gomez, H., additional, Guillon, B., additional, Guzowski, P., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Holý, K., additional, Huber, A., additional, Hugon, C., additional, Jeremie, A., additional, Jullian, S., additional, Karaivanov, D. V., additional, Kauer, M., additional, Klimenko, A. A., additional, Kochetov, O. I., additional, Konovalov, S. I., additional, Kovalenko, V., additional, Lang, K., additional, Lemière, Y., additional, Le Noblet, T., additional, Liptak, Z., additional, Liu, X. R., additional, Loaiza, P., additional, Lutter, G., additional, Maalmi, J., additional, Macko, M., additional, Mamedov, F., additional, Marquet, C., additional, Mauger, F., additional, Minotti, A., additional, Mirsagatova, A. A., additional, Mirzayev, N. A., additional, Moreau, I., additional, Morgan, B., additional, Mott, J., additional, Nemchenok, I. B., additional, Nomachi, M., additional, Nova, F., additional, Ohsumi, H., additional, Oliviero, G., additional, Pahlka, R. B., additional, Pater, J. R., additional, Palušová, V., additional, Perrot, F., additional, Piquemal, F., additional, Povinec, P., additional, Pridal, P., additional, Ramachers, Y. A., additional, Rebii, A., additional, Remoto, A., additional, Richards, B., additional, Ricol, J. S., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Rukhadze, N. I., additional, Saakyan, R., additional, Sadikov, I. I., additional, Salazar, R., additional, Sarazin, X., additional, Sedgbeer, J., additional, Shitov, Yu. A., additional, Šimkovic, F., additional, Simard, L., additional, Smetana, A., additional, Smolek, K., additional, Smolnikov, A. A., additional, Snow, S., additional, Söldner-Rembold, S., additional, Soulé, B., additional, Špavorova, M., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Tashimova, F. A., additional, Thomas, J., additional, Timkin, V., additional, Torre, S., additional, Tretyak, Vl. I., additional, Tretyak, V. I., additional, Umatov, V. I., additional, Vilela, C., additional, Vorobel, V., additional, Warot, G., additional, Waters, D., additional, Zampaolo, M., additional, and Žukauskas, A., additional
Published: 2019
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50. Detailed studies of $$^{100}$$Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3

Author: Arnold, R., primary, Augier, C., additional, Barabash, A. S., additional, Basharina-Freshville, A., additional, Blondel, S., additional, Blot, S., additional, Bongrand, M., additional, Boursette, D., additional, Brudanin, V., additional, Busto, J., additional, Caffrey, A. J., additional, Calvez, S., additional, Cascella, M., additional, Cerna, C., additional, Cesar, J. P., additional, Chapon, A., additional, Chauveau, E., additional, Chopra, A., additional, Dawson, L., additional, Duchesneau, D., additional, Durand, D., additional, Dvornický, R., additional, Egorov, V., additional, Eurin, G., additional, Evans, J. J., additional, Fajt, L., additional, Filosofov, D., additional, Flack, R., additional, Garrido, X., additional, Girard-Carillo, C., additional, Gómez, H., additional, Guillon, B., additional, Guzowski, P., additional, Hodák, R., additional, Huber, A., additional, Hubert, P., additional, Hugon, C., additional, Jullian, S., additional, Kochetov, O., additional, Konovalov, S. I., additional, Kovalenko, V., additional, Lalanne, D., additional, Lang, K., additional, Lemière, Y., additional, Noblet, T. Le, additional, Liptak, Z., additional, Liu, X. R., additional, Loaiza, P., additional, Lutter, G., additional, Macko, M., additional, Macolino, C., additional, Mamedov, F., additional, Marquet, C., additional, Mauger, F., additional, Minotti, A., additional, Morgan, B., additional, Mott, J., additional, Nemchenok, I., additional, Nomachi, M., additional, Nova, F., additional, Nowacki, F., additional, Ohsumi, H., additional, Oliviéro, G., additional, Pahlka, R. B., additional, Patrick, C., additional, Perrot, F., additional, Pin, A., additional, Piquemal, F., additional, Povinec, P., additional, Přidal, P., additional, Ramachers, Y. A., additional, Remoto, A., additional, Reyss, J. L., additional, Riddle, C. L., additional, Rukhadze, E., additional, Saakyan, R., additional, Salamatin, A., additional, Salazar, R., additional, Sarazin, X., additional, Sedgbeer, J., additional, Shitov, Yu., additional, Simard, L., additional, Šimkovic, F., additional, Smetana, A., additional, Smolek, K., additional, Smolnikov, A., additional, Söldner-Rembold, S., additional, Soulé, B., additional, Štekl, I., additional, Suhonen, J., additional, Sutton, C. S., additional, Szklarz, G., additional, Tedjditi, H., additional, Thomas, J., additional, Timkin, V., additional, Torre, S., additional, Tretyak, Vl. I., additional, Tretyak, V. I., additional, Umatov, V. I., additional, Vanushin, I., additional, Vilela, C., additional, Vorobel, V., additional, Waters, D., additional, Xie, F., additional, and Žukauskas, A., additional
Published: 2019
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