Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of \mohundred~from AMoRE-I

Autor: Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., Yue, Q.
Rok vydání: 2024
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: AMoRE searches for the signature of neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo with a 100 kg sample of enriched $^{100}$Mo. Scintillating molybdate crystals coupled with a metallic magnetic calorimeter operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures to measure the energy of electrons emitted in the decay. As a demonstration of the full-scale AMoRE, we conducted AMoRE-I, a pre-experiment with 18 molybdate crystals, at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory for over two years. The exposure was 8.02 kg$\cdot$year (or 3.89 kg$_{\mathrm{^{100}Mo}}\cdot$year) and the total background rate near the Q-value was 0.025 $\pm$ 0.002 counts/keV/kg/year. We observed no indication of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay and report a new lower limit of the half-life of $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay as $ T^{0\nu}_{1/2}>3.0\times10^{24}~\mathrm{years}$ at 90\% confidence level. The effective Majorana mass limit range is $m_{\beta\beta}<$(210--610) meV using nuclear matrix elements estimated in the framework of different models, including the recent shell model calculations.
Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures
Databáze: arXiv