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Double-beta decay of ${}^{130}$Te to the first $0^+$ excited state of ${}^{130}$Xe with CUORE-0
- Author(s): Collaboration, CUORE
- Alduino, C
- Alfonso, K
- Artusa, DR
- III, FT Avignone
- Azzolini, O
- Banks, TI
- Bari, G
- Beeman, JW
- Bellini, F
- Bersani, A
- Biassoni, M
- Brofferio, C
- Bucci, C
- Caminata, A
- Canonica, L
- Cao, XG
- Capelli, S
- Cappelli, L
- Carbone, L
- Cardani, L
- Carniti, P
- Casali, N
- Cassina, L
- Chiesa, D
- Chott, N
- Clemenza, M
- Copello, S
- Cosmelli, C
- Cremonesi, O
- Creswick, RJ
- Cushman, JS
- D'Addabbo, A
- Dafinei, I
- Davis, CJ
- Dell'Oro, S
- Deninno, MM
- Domizio, S Di
- Vacri, ML Di
- Drobizhev, A
- Fang, DQ
- Faverzani, M
- Fernandes, G
- Ferri, E
- Ferroni, F
- Fiorini, E
- Freedman, SJ
- Fujikawa, BK
- Giachero, A
- Gironi, L
- Giuliani, A
- Gladstone, L
- Gorla, P
- Gotti, C
- Gutierrez, TD
- Haller, EE
- Han, K
- Hansen, E
- Heeger, KM
- Hennings-Yeomans, R
- Hickerson, KP
- Huang, HZ
- Kadel, R
- Keppel, G
- Kolomensky, Yu G
- Leder, A
- Lim, KE
- Liu, X
- Ma, YG
- Maino, M
- Marini, L
- Martinez, M
- Maruyama, RH
- Mei, Y
- Moggi, N
- Morganti, S
- Mosteiro, PJ
- Nastasi, M
- Nones, C
- Norman, EB
- Nucciotti, A
- O'Donnell, T
- Orio, F
- Ouellet, JL
- Pagliarone, CE
- Pallavicini, M
- Palmieri, V
- Pattavina, L
- Pavan, M
- Pessina, G
- Pettinacci, V
- Piperno, G
- Pirro, S
- Pozzi, S
- Previtali, E
- Rosenfeld, C
- Rusconi, C
- Sangiorgio, S
- Santone, D
- Scielzo, ND
- Singh, V
- Sisti, M
- Smith, AR
- Taffarello, L
- Tenconi, M
- Terranova, F
- Tomei, C
- Trentalange, S
- Vignati, M
- Wagaarachchi, SL
- Wang, BS
- Wang, HW
- Wilson, J
- Winslow, LA
- Wise, T
- Woodcraft, A
- Zanotti, L
- Zhang, GQ
- Zhu, BX
- Zimmermann, S
- Zucchelli, S
- et al.
Abstract
We report on a search for double beta decay of $^{130}$Te to the first $0^{+}$ excited state of $^{130}$Xe using a 9.8 kg$\cdot$yr exposure of $^{130}$Te collected with the CUORE-0 experiment. In this work we exploit different topologies of coincident events to search for both the neutrinoless and two-neutrino double-decay modes. We find no evidence for either mode and place lower bounds on the half-lives: $\tau^{0\nu}_{0^+}>7.9\cdot 10^{23}$ yr and $\tau^{2\nu}_{0^+}>2.4\cdot 10^{23}$ yr. Combining our results with those obtained by the CUORICINO experiment, we achieve the most stringent constraints available for these processes: $\tau^{0\nu}_{0^+}>1.4\cdot 10^{24}$ yr and $\tau^{2\nu}_{0^+}>2.5\cdot 10^{23}$ yr.