Search for two neutrino double electron capture of 124Xe and 126Xe in the full exposure of the LUX detector

Autor: E. M. Boulton, A. Naylor, L. Tvrznikova, P. Brás, T. J. Sumner, A. Manalaysay, A. Lindote, J. A. Morad, Jilei Xu, R. L. Mannino, D. Q. Huang, C. Nehrkorn, M. C. Carmona-Benitez, Carl Gwilliam, Ethan Bernard, Catarina Silva, W. C. Taylor, J. Balajthy, K. Kamdin, Chao Zhang, J. Liao, W. H. To, D. R. Tiedt, S. Uvarov, D. Woodward, A. Fan, Henrique Araujo, J. Lin, D. M. Mei, S. J. Haselschwardt, N. Marangou, Q. Riffard, D. S. Akerib, V. A. Kudryavtsev, Sergey Burdin, D. J. Taylor, T. A. Shutt, C. Rhyne, S. A. Hertel, E. Druszkiewicz, M. Horn, A. Baxter, R. J. Gaitskell, C. Chan, S. Kravitz, C. R. Hall, C. M. Ignarra, K. J. Palladino, U. Utku, D. Byram, A. St. J. Murphy, Adam Bernstein, G. R. C. Rischbieter, Mani Tripathi, M.I. Lopes, Elena Korolkova, M. G. D. Gilchriese, B. G. Lenardo, E. K. Pease, H. N. Nelson, S. Fiorucci, B. Boxer, L. de Viveiros, V. N. Solovov, Daniel McKinsey, S. Alsum, M. Moongweluwan, F. L. H. Wolfs, P. Sorensen, M. Solmaz, M. F. Marzioni, K. C. Oliver-Mallory, R. C. Webb, C. Ghag, J. T. White, D. P. Hogan, D. Khaitan, B. P. Tennyson, P. Rossiter, Matthew Szydagis, Robert A. Taylor, F. Neves, J. E. Cutter, T. J. Whitis, P. A. Terman, Antonin Vacheret, S. Shaw, M. S. Witherell, O. Jahangir, X. Bai, K. T. Lesko, E. Leason, R. G. Jacobsen, Kareem Kazkaz, T. P. Biesiadzinski, W. Ji, A. Nilima, V. Velan
Přispěvatelé: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: 2020, ' Search for two neutrino double electron capture of 124Xe and 126Xe in the full exposure of the LUX detector ', Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 47, no. 10 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ab9c2d
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol 47, iss 10
Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol 47, iss 10
ISSN: 0954-3899
Popis: Two-neutrino double electron capture is a process allowed in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This rare decay has been observed in $^{78}$Kr, $^{130}$Ba and more recently in $^{124}$Xe. In this publication we report on the search for this process in $^{124}$Xe and $^{126}$Xe using the full exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, in a total of of 27769.5~kg-days. No evidence of a signal was observed, allowing us to set 90\% C.L. lower limits for the half-lives of these decays of $2.0\times10^{21}$~years for $^{124}$Xe and $1.9\times10^{21}$~years for $^{126}$Xe.
8 pages, 3 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE