1. Search for Majoron-emitting modes of Xe136 double beta decay with the complete EXO-200 dataset
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Al Kharusi, S, Anton, G, Badhrees, I, Barbeau, PS, Beck, D, Belov, V, Bhatta, T, Breidenbach, M, Brunner, T, Cao, GF, Cen, WR, Chambers, C, Cleveland, B, Coon, M, Craycraft, A, Daniels, T, Darroch, L, Daugherty, SJ, Davis, J, Delaquis, S, Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A, DeVoe, R, Dilling, J, Dolgolenko, A, Dolinski, MJ, Echevers, J, Fairbank, W, Fairbank, D, Farine, J, Feyzbakhsh, S, Fierlinger, P, Fudenberg, D, Gautam, P, Gornea, R, Gratta, G, Hall, C, Hansen, EV, Hoessl, J, Hufschmidt, P, Hughes, M, Iverson, A, Jamil, A, Jessiman, C, Jewell, MJ, Johnson, A, Karelin, A, Kaufman, LJ, Koffas, T, Krücken, R, Kuchenkov, A, Kumar, KS, Lan, Y, Larson, A, Lenardo, BG, Leonard, DS, Li, GS, Li, S, Li, Z, Licciardi, C, Lin, YH, MacLellan, R, McElroy, T, Michel, T, Mong, B, Moore, DC, Murray, K, Njoya, O, Nusair, O, Odian, A, Ostrovskiy, I, Perna, A, Piepke, A, Pocar, A, Retière, F, Robinson, AL, Rowson, PC, Ruddell, D, Runge, J, Schmidt, S, Sinclair, D, Skarpaas, K, Soma, AK, Stekhanov, V, Tarka, M, Thibado, S, Todd, J, Tolba, T, Totev, TI, Tsang, R, Veenstra, B, Veeraraghavan, V, Vogel, P, Vuilleumier, J-L, Wagenpfeil, M, Watkins, J, Weber, M, Wen, LJ, Wichoski, U, Wrede, G, and Wu, SX
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Physical Sciences - Abstract
A search for Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe136 is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. This dataset consists of a total Xe136 exposure of 234.1 kg·yr, and includes data with detector upgrades that have improved the energy threshold relative to previous searches. A lower limit of T1/2Xe136>4.3×1024 yr at 90% C.L. on the half-life of the spectral index n=1 Majoron decay was obtained, a factor of 3.6 more stringent than the previous limit from EXO-200 and a factor of 1.6 more stringent than the previous best limit from KamLAND-Zen. This limit corresponds to a constraint on the Majoron-neutrino coupling constant of |geeM|
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- 2021