Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset
Abstract
A search for neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) in 136Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between 0νββ and background events. Relative to previous analyses, the signal detection efficiency has been raised from 80.8% to 96.4+/-3.0%, and the energy resolution of the detector at the Q value of 136Xe 0νββ has been improved from σ/E=1.23% to 1.15+/-0.02% with the upgraded detector. Accounting for the new data, the median 90% confidence level 0νββ half-life sensitivity for this analysis is 5.0 × 1025 yr with a total 136Xe exposure of 234.1 kg yr. No statistically significant evidence for 0νββ is observed, leading to a lower limit on the 0νββ half-life of 3.5 × 1025 yr at the 90% confidence level.
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- Contributing Org.:
- EXO-200 Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1570864
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1574852; OSTI ID: 1656893; OSTI ID: 1830659
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; SC0017970; FG02-01ER41166
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 123 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
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Anton, G., Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P. S., Beck, D., Belov, V., Bhatta, T., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Cao, G. F., Cen, W. R., Chambers, C., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Darroch, L., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, J., Delaquis, S., Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A., DeVoe, R., Dilling, J., Dolgolenko, A., Dolinski, M. J., Echevers, J., Fairbank, W., Fairbank, D., Farine, J., Feyzbakhsh, S., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Gautam, P., Gornea, R., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Hansen, E. V., Hoessl, J., Hufschmidt, P., Hughes, M., Iverson, A., Jamil, A., Jessiman, C., Jewell, M. J., Johnson, A., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Koffas, T., Krücken, R., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Lan, Y., Larson, A., Lenardo, B. G., Leonard, D. S., Li, G. S., Li, S., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., MacLellan, R., McElroy, T., Michel, T., Mong, B., Moore, D. C., Murray, K., Njoya, O., Nusair, O., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Retière, F., Robinson, A. L., Rowson, P. C., Ruddell, D., Runge, J., Schmidt, S., Sinclair, D., Soma, A. K., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Todd, J., Tolba, T., Totev, T. I., Veenstra, B., Veeraraghavan, V., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Wagenpfeil, M., Watkins, J., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wrede, G., Wu, S. X., Xia, Q., Yahne, D. R., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., Zeldovich, O. Ya., Ziegler, T., and EXO-200 Collaboration. Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802.
Anton, G., Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P. S., Beck, D., Belov, V., Bhatta, T., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Cao, G. F., Cen, W. R., Chambers, C., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Darroch, L., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, J., Delaquis, S., Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A., DeVoe, R., Dilling, J., Dolgolenko, A., Dolinski, M. J., Echevers, J., Fairbank, W., Fairbank, D., Farine, J., Feyzbakhsh, S., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Gautam, P., Gornea, R., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Hansen, E. V., Hoessl, J., Hufschmidt, P., Hughes, M., Iverson, A., Jamil, A., Jessiman, C., Jewell, M. J., Johnson, A., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Koffas, T., Krücken, R., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Lan, Y., Larson, A., Lenardo, B. G., Leonard, D. S., Li, G. S., Li, S., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., MacLellan, R., McElroy, T., Michel, T., Mong, B., Moore, D. C., Murray, K., Njoya, O., Nusair, O., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Retière, F., Robinson, A. L., Rowson, P. C., Ruddell, D., Runge, J., Schmidt, S., Sinclair, D., Soma, A. K., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Todd, J., Tolba, T., Totev, T. I., Veenstra, B., Veeraraghavan, V., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Wagenpfeil, M., Watkins, J., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wrede, G., Wu, S. X., Xia, Q., Yahne, D. R., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., Zeldovich, O. Ya., Ziegler, T., & EXO-200 Collaboration. Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802
Anton, G., Badhrees, I., Barbeau, P. S., Beck, D., Belov, V., Bhatta, T., Breidenbach, M., Brunner, T., Cao, G. F., Cen, W. R., Chambers, C., Cleveland, B., Coon, M., Craycraft, A., Daniels, T., Danilov, M., Darroch, L., Daugherty, S. J., Davis, J., Delaquis, S., Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A., DeVoe, R., Dilling, J., Dolgolenko, A., Dolinski, M. J., Echevers, J., Fairbank, W., Fairbank, D., Farine, J., Feyzbakhsh, S., Fierlinger, P., Fudenberg, D., Gautam, P., Gornea, R., Gratta, G., Hall, C., Hansen, E. V., Hoessl, J., Hufschmidt, P., Hughes, M., Iverson, A., Jamil, A., Jessiman, C., Jewell, M. J., Johnson, A., Karelin, A., Kaufman, L. J., Koffas, T., Krücken, R., Kuchenkov, A., Kumar, K. S., Lan, Y., Larson, A., Lenardo, B. G., Leonard, D. S., Li, G. S., Li, S., Li, Z., Licciardi, C., Lin, Y. H., MacLellan, R., McElroy, T., Michel, T., Mong, B., Moore, D. C., Murray, K., Njoya, O., Nusair, O., Odian, A., Ostrovskiy, I., Piepke, A., Pocar, A., Retière, F., Robinson, A. L., Rowson, P. C., Ruddell, D., Runge, J., Schmidt, S., Sinclair, D., Soma, A. K., Stekhanov, V., Tarka, M., Todd, J., Tolba, T., Totev, T. I., Veenstra, B., Veeraraghavan, V., Vogel, P., Vuilleumier, J. -L., Wagenpfeil, M., Watkins, J., Weber, M., Wen, L. J., Wichoski, U., Wrede, G., Wu, S. X., Xia, Q., Yahne, D. R., Yang, L., Yen, Y. -R., Zeldovich, O. Ya., Ziegler, T., and EXO-200 Collaboration. Fri .
"Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802.
@article{osti_1570864,
title = {Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset},
author = {Anton, G. and Badhrees, I. and Barbeau, P. S. and Beck, D. and Belov, V. and Bhatta, T. and Breidenbach, M. and Brunner, T. and Cao, G. F. and Cen, W. R. and Chambers, C. and Cleveland, B. and Coon, M. and Craycraft, A. and Daniels, T. and Danilov, M. and Darroch, L. and Daugherty, S. J. and Davis, J. and Delaquis, S. and Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A. and DeVoe, R. and Dilling, J. and Dolgolenko, A. and Dolinski, M. J. and Echevers, J. and Fairbank, W. and Fairbank, D. and Farine, J. and Feyzbakhsh, S. and Fierlinger, P. and Fudenberg, D. and Gautam, P. and Gornea, R. and Gratta, G. and Hall, C. and Hansen, E. V. and Hoessl, J. and Hufschmidt, P. and Hughes, M. and Iverson, A. and Jamil, A. and Jessiman, C. and Jewell, M. J. and Johnson, A. and Karelin, A. and Kaufman, L. J. and Koffas, T. and Krücken, R. and Kuchenkov, A. and Kumar, K. S. and Lan, Y. and Larson, A. and Lenardo, B. G. and Leonard, D. S. and Li, G. S. and Li, S. and Li, Z. and Licciardi, C. and Lin, Y. H. and MacLellan, R. and McElroy, T. and Michel, T. and Mong, B. and Moore, D. C. and Murray, K. and Njoya, O. and Nusair, O. and Odian, A. and Ostrovskiy, I. and Piepke, A. and Pocar, A. and Retière, F. and Robinson, A. L. and Rowson, P. C. and Ruddell, D. and Runge, J. and Schmidt, S. and Sinclair, D. and Soma, A. K. and Stekhanov, V. and Tarka, M. and Todd, J. and Tolba, T. and Totev, T. I. and Veenstra, B. and Veeraraghavan, V. and Vogel, P. and Vuilleumier, J. -L. and Wagenpfeil, M. and Watkins, J. and Weber, M. and Wen, L. J. and Wichoski, U. and Wrede, G. and Wu, S. X. and Xia, Q. and Yahne, D. R. and Yang, L. and Yen, Y. -R. and Zeldovich, O. Ya. and Ziegler, T. and EXO-200 Collaboration},
abstractNote = {A search for neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) in 136Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between 0νββ and background events. Relative to previous analyses, the signal detection efficiency has been raised from 80.8% to 96.4+/-3.0%, and the energy resolution of the detector at the Q value of 136Xe 0νββ has been improved from σ/E=1.23% to 1.15+/-0.02% with the upgraded detector. Accounting for the new data, the median 90% confidence level 0νββ half-life sensitivity for this analysis is 5.0 × 1025 yr with a total 136Xe exposure of 234.1 kg yr. No statistically significant evidence for 0νββ is observed, leading to a lower limit on the 0νββ half-life of 3.5 × 1025 yr at the 90% confidence level.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 16,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {10}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802
Web of Science
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