1. Limit on the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of $$^{36}$$ 36 Ar from GERDA Phase I
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Marc Walter, O.I. Kochetov, J. Janicskó Csáthy, D. Palioselitis, S. T. Belyaev, A. M. Gangapshev, H. Wilsenach, V. I. Gurentsov, R. Brugnera, C. Wiesinger, M. Stepaniuk, M. Heisel, V. V. Kuzminov, Matteo Agostini, B. Lehnert, I. Zhitnikov, A. Domula, C. Macolino, R. Mingazheva, Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev, M. Shirchenko, K. Freund, L. V. Inzhechik, L. B. Bezrukov, B. Schwingenheuer, Oliver Schulz, A. V. Veresnikova, M. Balata, E. Doroshkevich, O. Fedorova, A. Chernogorov, E. V. Demidova, V.B. Brudanin, A. Lazzaro, Alberto Pullia, Hardy Simgen, I. V. Kirpichnikov, E. Medinaceli, I. R. Barabanov, N. Frodyma, A. Garfagnini, M. Miloradovic, W. Maneschg, E. A. Yanovich, S. V. Zhukov, Alessandro Bettini, V. Egorov, S. Belogurov, A.-K. Schütz, V. I. Lebedev, J. Schreiner, A. Hegai, G. Heusser, A. Kirsch, Marcin Wójcik, P. Grabmayr, N. Barros, M. Salathe, L. Vanhoefer, T. Bode, K. T. Knöpfle, Cinzia Sada, Manfred Lindner, P. Moseev, S. Hemmer, Luciano Pandola, R. Kneißl, Matthias Laubenstein, Giovanni Benato, A. A. Klimenko, N. Rumyantseva, V. Wagner, A. Wegmann, O. Selivanenko, C. Gooch, Igor Nemchenok, A. A. Vasenko, K. N. Gusev, B. Schneider, Bela Majorovits, Thomas Kihm, Josef Jochum, V. V. Kazalov, D. R. Zinatulina, G. Zuzel, Ivano Lippi, V. D'Andrea, A. Kish, Mikael Hult, J. Hakenmüller, Stefano Riboldi, K. Panas, M. Misiaszek, M. Allardt, E. Bellotti, A. di Vacri, Werner Hofmann, Allen Caldwell, Luca Stanco, F. Salamida, K. von Sturm, T. Wester, A.A. Smolnikov, C. Cattadori, Kai Zuber, D. Borowicz, Christian Bauer, A. Lubashevskiy, Stefan Schönert, M. Junker, Laura Baudis, V. N. Kornoukhov, H. Y. Liao, K. Pelczar, Guillaume Lutter, A. M. Bakalyarov, R. Falkenstein, and C. Schmitt
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Physics ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Electron capture ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Phase (waves) ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Germanium ,Physics::Data Analysis ,Statistics and Probability ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Lepton number ,Semiconductor detector ,Nuclear physics ,MAJORANA ,chemistry ,0103 physical sciences ,Radiative transfer ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Neutrino ,Nuclear Experiment ,010306 general physics ,Engineering (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Neutrinoless double electron capture is a process that, if detected, would give evidence of lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. A search for neutrinoless double electron capture of $^{36}$Ar has been performed with germanium detectors installed in liquid argon using data from Phase I of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of INFN, Italy. No signal was observed and an experimental lower limit on the half-life of the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of $^{36}$Ar was established: $T_{1/2} > $ 3.6 $\times$ 10$^{21}$ yr at 90 % C.I.
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- 2016