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Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset
- Abe, S;
- Araki, T;
- Chiba, K;
- Eda, T;
- Eizuka, M;
- Funahashi, Y;
- Furuto, A;
- Gando, A;
- Gando, Y;
- Goto, S;
- Hachiya, T;
- Hata, K;
- Ichimura, K;
- Ieki, S;
- Ikeda, H;
- Inoue, K;
- Ishidoshiro, K;
- Kamei, Y;
- Kawada, N;
- Kishimoto, Y;
- Koga, M;
- Marthe, A;
- Matsumoto, Y;
- Mitsui, T;
- Miyake, H;
- Morita, D;
- Nakajima, R;
- Nakamura, K;
- Nakamura, R;
- Nakamura, R;
- Nakane, J;
- Ono, T;
- Ozaki, H;
- Saito, K;
- Sakai, T;
- Shimizu, I;
- Shirai, J;
- Shiraishi, K;
- Suzuki, A;
- Tachibana, K;
- Tamae, K;
- Watanabe, H;
- Watanabe, K;
- Yoshida, S;
- Umehara, S;
- Fushimi, K;
- Kotera, K;
- Urano, Y;
- Berger, BE;
- Fujikawa, BK;
- Learned, JG;
- Maricic, J;
- Fu, Z;
- Ghosh, S;
- Smolsky, J;
- Winslow, LA;
- Efremenko, Y;
- Karwowski, HJ;
- Markoff, DM;
- Tornow, W;
- Dell’Oro, S;
- O’Donnell, T;
- Detwiler, JA;
- Enomoto, S;
- Decowski, MP;
- Weerman, KM;
- Grant, C;
- Penek, Ö;
- Song, H;
- Li, A;
- Axani, SN;
- Garcia, M;
- Sarfraz, M
Published Web Location
https://doi.org/10.1103/jkf6-48j8Abstract
We present a search for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of ^{136}Xe using the full KamLAND-Zen 800 dataset with 745 kg of enriched xenon, corresponding to an exposure of 2.1 ton yr of ^{136}Xe. This updated search benefits from a more than twofold increase in exposure, recovery of photo-sensor gain, and reduced background from muon-induced spallation of xenon. Combining with the search in the previous KamLAND-Zen phase, we obtain a lower limit for the 0νββ decay halflife of T_{1/2}^{0ν}>3.8×10^{26} yr at 90% CL, a factor of 1.7 improvement over the previous limit. The corresponding upper limits on the effective Majorana neutrino mass are in the range 28-122 meV using phenomenological nuclear matrix element calculations.
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