Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200

Albert, J. B.; Anton, G.; Badhrees, I.; Barbeau, P. S.; Bayerlein, R.; Beck, D.; Belov, V.; Breidenbach, M.; Brunner, T.; Cao, G. F.; Cen, W. R.; Chambers, C.; Cleveland, B.; Coon, M.; Craycraft, A.; Cree, W.; Daniels, T.; Danilov, M.; Daugherty, S. J.; Daughhetee, J.; Davis, J.; Delaquis, S.; Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A.; DeVoe, R.; Didberidze, T.; Dilling, J.; Dolgolenko, A.; Dolinski, M. J.; Fairbank, W.; Farine, J.; Feyzbakhsh, S.; Fierlinger, P.; Fudenberg, D.; Gornea, R.; Graham, K.; Gratta, G.; Hall, C.; Hansen, E. V.; Hoessl, J.; Homiller, S.; Hufschmidt, P.; Hughes, M.; Jamil, A.; Jewell, M. J.; Johnson, A.; Johnston, S.; Karelin, A.; Kaufman, L. J.; Koffas, T.; Kravitz, S.; Krücken, R.; Kuchenkov, A.; Kumar, K. S.; Lan, Y.; Leonard, D. S.; Li, G. S.; Li, S.; Licciardi, C.; Lin, Y. H.; MacLellan, R.; Michel, T.; Mong, B.; Moore, D.; Murray, K.; Nelson, R.; Njoya, O.; Odian, A.; Ostrovskiy, I.; Piepke, A.; Pocar, A.; Retière, F.; Robinson, A. L.; Rowson, P. C.; Schmidt, S.; Schubert, A.; Sinclair, D.; Soma, A. K.; Stekhanov, V.; Tarka, M.; Tolba, T.; Tsang, R.; Vogel, P.; Vuilleumier, J. -L.; Wagenpfeil, M.; Waite, A.; Walton, T.; Weber, M.; Wen, L. J.; Wichoski, U.; Wrede, G.; Yang, L.; Yen, Y. -R.; Zeldovich, O. Ya.; Zettlemoyer, J.; Ziegler, T.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072007

Title: Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200

Journal Article · 10 April 2018 · Physical Review D

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.072007 · OSTI ID:1432590

Albert, J. B.; Anton, G.; Badhrees, I.; Barbeau, P. S.; Bayerlein, R.; Beck, D.; Belov, V.; Breidenbach, M.; Brunner, T.; Cao, G. F.; Cen, W. R.; Chambers, C.; Cleveland, B.; Coon, M.; Craycraft, A.; Cree, W.; Daniels, T.; Danilov, M.; Daugherty, S. J.; Daughhetee, J. more »

In this paper, a search for instability of nucleons bound in ¹³⁶Xe nuclei is reported with 223 kg·yr exposure of ¹³⁶Xe in the EXO-200 experiment. Lifetime limits of 3.3 × 10²³ and 1.9 × 10²³ yr are established for nucleon decay to ¹³³Sb and ¹³³Te, respectively. These are the most stringent to date, exceeding the prior decay limits by a factor of 9 and 7, respectively.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); Inst. for Basic Science (IBS); Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR); German Research Foundation (DFG); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); International Science and Technology Cooperation Project (ISTCP); KARMEN collaboration; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Contributing Organization:: EXO-200 Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: AC0576RL01830; AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1432590

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1434671; OSTI ID: 1434918; OSTI ID: 1485089

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 97, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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