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Final Result of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in Ge76
- Arnquist, IJ;
- Avignone, FT;
- Barabash, AS;
- Barton, CJ;
- Barton, PJ;
- Bhimani, KH;
- Blalock, E;
- Bos, B;
- Busch, M;
- Buuck, M;
- Caldwell, TS;
- Chan, Y-D;
- Christofferson, CD;
- Chu, P-H;
- Clark, ML;
- Cuesta, C;
- Detwiler, JA;
- Efremenko, Yu;
- Ejiri, H;
- Elliott, SR;
- Giovanetti, GK;
- Green, MP;
- Gruszko, J;
- Guinn, IS;
- Guiseppe, VE;
- Haufe, CR;
- Henning, R;
- Hervas Aguilar, D;
- Hoppe, EW;
- Hostiuc, A;
- Kidd, MF;
- Kim, I;
- Kouzes, RT;
- Lannen V, TE;
- Li, A;
- Lopez, AM;
- López-Castaño, JM;
- Martin, EL;
- Martin, RD;
- Massarczyk, R;
- Meijer, SJ;
- Mertens, S;
- Oli, TK;
- Othman, G;
- Paudel, LS;
- Pettus, W;
- Poon, AWP;
- Radford, DC;
- Reine, AL;
- Rielage, K;
- Ruof, NW;
- Schaper, DC;
- Tedeschi, D;
- Varner, RL;
- Vasilyev, S;
- Wilkerson, JF;
- Wiseman, C;
- Xu, W;
- Yu, C-H;
- Zhu, BX
- et al.
Abstract
The Majorana Demonstrator searched for neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) of ^{76}Ge using modular arrays of high-purity Ge detectors operated in vacuum cryostats in a low-background shield. The arrays operated with up to 40.4 kg of detectors (27.2 kg enriched to ∼88% in ^{76}Ge). From these measurements, the Demonstrator has accumulated 64.5 kg yr of enriched active exposure. With a world-leading energy resolution of 2.52 keV FWHM at the 2039 keV Q_{ββ} (0.12%), we set a half-life limit of 0νββ in ^{76}Ge at T_{1/2}>8.3×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.). This provides a range of upper limits on m_{ββ} of (113-269) meV (90% C.L.), depending on the choice of nuclear matrix elements.
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