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Search for Double Beta Decays of Xe134 with EXO-200 Phase II
- Al Kharusi, S;
- Anton, G;
- Badhrees, I;
- Barbeau, PS;
- Belov, V;
- Bhatta, T;
- Breidenbach, M;
- Brunner, T;
- Cao, GF;
- Cen, WR;
- Chambers, C;
- Cleveland, B;
- Coon, M;
- Craycraft, A;
- Daniels, T;
- Darroch, L;
- Daugherty, SJ;
- Davis, J;
- Delaquis, S;
- Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A;
- DeVoe, R;
- Dolgolenko, A;
- Dolinski, MJ;
- Echevers, J;
- Eckert, B;
- Fairbank, W;
- Fairbank, D;
- Farine, J;
- Feyzbakhsh, S;
- Fierlinger, P;
- Fu, YS;
- Fudenberg, D;
- Gautam, P;
- Gornea, R;
- Gratta, G;
- Hall, C;
- Hansen, EV;
- Hoessl, J;
- Hufschmidt, P;
- Hughes, M;
- Iverson, A;
- Jamil, A;
- Jessiman, C;
- Jewell, MJ;
- Johnson, A;
- Karelin, A;
- Kaufman, LJ;
- Koffas, T;
- Krücken, R;
- Kuchenkov, A;
- Kumar, KS;
- Lan, Y;
- Larson, A;
- Lenardo, BG;
- Leonard, DS;
- Li, GS;
- Li, S;
- Li, Z;
- Licciardi, C;
- Lin, YH;
- MacLellan, R;
- McElroy, T;
- Michel, T;
- Mong, B;
- Moore, DC;
- Murray, K;
- Njoya, O;
- Nusair, O;
- Odian, A;
- Ostrovskiy, I;
- Peltz Smalley, H;
- Perna, A;
- Piepke, A;
- Pocar, A;
- Retière, F;
- Robinson, AL;
- Rowson, PC;
- Schmidt, S;
- Sinclair, D;
- Skarpaas, K;
- Soma, AK;
- Stekhanov, V;
- Tarka, M;
- Thibado, S;
- Todd, J;
- Tolba, T;
- Totev, TI;
- Tsang, R;
- Veenstra, B;
- Veeraraghavan, V;
- Vogel, P;
- Vuilleumier, J-L;
- Wagenpfeil, M;
- Watkins, J;
- Weber, M;
- Wen, LJ;
- Wichoski, U;
- Wrede, G;
- Wu, SX;
- Xia, Q;
- Yahne, DR;
- Yang, L;
- Yen, Y-R;
- Zeldovich, O Ya;
- Ziegler, T
Published Web Location
https://doi.org/10.1103/vpny-23wqAbstract
EXO-200 was a leading double beta decay experiment consisting of a single-phase, enriched liquid xenon time projection chamber filled with an admixture of 80.672% ^{136}Xe and 19.098% ^{134}Xe. The detector operated at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant between 2010 and 2018 and was designed to search for double beta decay of ^{136}Xe. Data were acquired in two phases separated by a period of detector upgrades. We report on the search for 0νββ and 2νββ decay of ^{134}Xe with Phase II EXO-200 data, with median 90% CL exclusion sensitivity to half-life T_{1/2}^{0ν}≥3.7×10^{23} yr and T_{1/2}^{2ν}≥2.6×10^{21} yr, respectively. No statistically significant signal is observed for either decay mode. We set a world-leading lower limit on the half-life of the neutrinoless decay mode of ^{134}Xe of T_{1/2}^{0ν}≥8.7×10^{23} (90% CL) and the second strongest constraint on the two-neutrino decay of T_{1/2}^{2ν}≥2.9×10^{21} (90% CL), a threefold improvement over the EXO-200 Phase I measurement. New constraints are also set for the 2νββ and 0νββ decays of ^{134}Xe to the lowest excited state of ^{134}Ba.
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