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1. Searching for Beyond the Standard Model physics using the improved description of $^{100}$Mo $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral shape with CUPID-Mo

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Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Šimkovic, F., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., War, B., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The current experiments searching for neutrinoless double-$\beta$ ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay also collect large statistics of Standard Model allowed two-neutrino double-$\beta$ ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay events. These can be used to search for Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics via $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral distortions. $^{100}$Mo has a natural advantage due to its relatively short half-life, allowing higher $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay statistics at equal exposures compared to the other isotopes. We demonstrate the potential of the dual read-out bolometric technique exploiting a $^{100}$Mo exposure of 1.47 kg $\times$ y, acquired in the CUPID-Mo experiment at the Modane underground laboratory (France). We set limits on $0\nu\beta\beta$ decays with the emission of one or more Majorons, on $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay with Lorentz violation, and $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay with a sterile neutrino emission. In this analysis, we investigate the systematic uncertainty induced by modeling the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay spectral shape parameterized through an improved model, an effect never considered before. This work motivates searches for BSM processes in the upcoming CUPID experiment, which will collect the largest amount of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay events among the next-generation experiments.

Published
2024

2. Measurement of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay rate and spectral shape of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo experiment

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Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, 6 M., Berge, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Celi, E., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Simkovic, F., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velazquez, M., Ware, B., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a yet unobserved nuclear process which would demonstrate Lepton Number violation, a clear evidence of beyond Standard Model physics. The process two neutrino double beta decay ($2\nu\beta\beta)$ is allowed by the Standard Model and has been measured in numerous experiments. In this letter, we report a measurement of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru of $(7.07~\pm~0.02~\text{(stat.)}~\pm~0.11~\text{(syst.)})~\times~10^{18}$~yr by the CUPID-Mo experiment. With a relative precision of $\pm~1.6$ \% this is the most precise measurement to date of a $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay rate in $^{100}$Mo. In addition, we constrain higher-order corrections to the spectral shape which provides complementary nuclear structure information. We report a novel measurement of the shape factor $\xi_{3,1}=0.45~\pm 0.03~\text{(stat.)} \ \pm 0.05 \ \text{(syst.)}$, which is compared to theoretical predictions for different nuclear models. We also extract the first value for the effective axial vector coupling constant obtained from a spectral shape study of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures

Published
2023

3. Deep underground laboratory measurement of $^{13}$C($\alpha$,$n$)$^{16}$O in the Gamow windows of the $s$- and $i$-processes

Author

Gao, B., Jiao, T. Y., Li, Y. T., Chen, H., Lin, W. P., An, Z., Ru, L. H., Zhang, Z. C., Tang, X. D., Wang, X. Y., Zhang, N. T., Fang, X., Xie, D. H., Fan, Y. H., Ma, L., Zhang, X., Bai, F., Wang, P., Fan, Y. X., Liu, G., Huang, H. X., Wu, Q., Zhu, Y. B., Chai, J. L., Li, J. Q., Sun, L. T., Wang, S., Cai, J. W., Li, Y. Z., Su, J., Zhang, H., Li, Z. H., Li, Y. J., Li, E. T., Chen, C., Shen, Y. P., Lian, G., Guo, B., Li, X. Y., Zhang, L. Y., He, J. J., Sheng, Y. D., Chen, Y. J., Wang, L. H., Zhang, L., Cao, F. Q., Nan, W., Nan, W. K., Li, G. X., Song, N., Cui, B. Q., Chen, L. H., Ma, R. G., Yan, S. Q., Liao, J. H., Wang, Y. B., Zeng, S., Nan, D., Fan, Q. W., Qi, N. C., Sun, W. L., Guo, X. Y., Zhang, P., Chen, Y. H., Zhou, Y., Zhou, J. F., He, J. R., Shang, C. S., Li, M. C., Kubono, S., Liu, W. P., deBoer, R. J., Wiescher, M., and Pignatari, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The $^{13}$C($\alpha$,$n$)$^{16}$O reaction is the main neutron source for the slow-neutron-capture (s-) process in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and for the intermediate (i-) process. Direct measurements at astrophysical energies in above-ground laboratories are hindered by the extremely small cross sections and vast cosmic-ray induced background. We performed the first consistent direct measurement in the range of $E_{\rm c.m.}=$0.24 MeV to 1.9 MeV using the accelerators at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) and Sichuan University. Our measurement covers almost the entire i-process Gamow window in which the large uncertainty of the previous experiments has been reduced from 60\% down to 15\%, eliminates the large systematic uncertainty in the extrapolation arising from the inconsistency of existing data sets, and provides a more reliable reaction rate for the studies of the s- and i-processes along with the first direct determination of the alpha strength for the near-threshold state.

Published
2022
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4. New measurement of double beta decays of $^{100}$Mo to excited states of $^{100}$Ru with the CUPID-Mo experiment

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Collaboration, CUPID-Mo, Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Kotilla, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The CUPID-Mo experiment, located at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France), was a demonstrator experiment for CUPID. It consisted of an array of 20 Li$_2^{100}$MoO$_4$ (LMO) calorimeters each equipped with a Ge light detector (LD) for particle identification. In this work, we present the result of a search for two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of $^{100}$Mo to the first 0$^+$ and $2^+$ excited states of $^{100}$Ru using the full CUPID-Mo exposure (2.71 kg$\times$yr of LMO). We measure the half-life of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay to the $0^{+}_1$ state as $T_{1/2}^{2\nu \rightarrow 0_1^+}=7.5\pm 0.8 \ \text{(stat.)} \ ^{+ 0.4}_{-0.3} \ \text{(syst.)} )\times 10^{20} \ \mathrm{yr}$. The bolometric technique enables measurement of the electron energies as well as the gamma rays from nuclear de-excitation and this allows us to set new limits on the two-neutrino decay to the $2_1^+$ state of $T^{2\nu \rightarrow 2_1^+}_{1/2}>4.4\times 10^{21} \ \mathrm{yr} \ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$ and on the neutrinoless modes of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu\rightarrow 2_1^+}>2.1\times10^{23} \ \mathrm{yr}\ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$, $T_{1/2}^{0\nu\rightarrow 0_1^+}>1.2\times10^{23} \ \mathrm{yr}\ \text{(90 % c.i.)}$. Information on the electrons spectral shape is obtained which allows us to make the first comparison of the single state (SSD) and higher state (HSD) $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay models for the $0_1^+$ excited state of $^{100}$Ru., Comment: 22 pages, 15 figures

Published
2022

5. Final results on the $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life limit of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo experiment

Author

Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Chiesa, D., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z. Huang R., Imbert, L., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The CUPID-Mo experiment to search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo has been recently completed after about 1.5 years of operation at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France). It served as a demonstrator for CUPID, a next generation 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay experiment. CUPID-Mo was comprised of 20 enriched Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating calorimeters, each with a mass of $\sim$ 0.2 kg, operated at $\sim$20 mK. We present here the final analysis with the full exposure of CUPID-Mo ($^{100}$Mo exposure of 1.47 kg$\times$yr) used to search for lepton number violation via 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay. We report on various analysis improvements since the previous result on a subset of data, reprocessing all data with these new techniques. We observe zero events in the region of interest and set a new limit on the $^{100}$Mo 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay half-life of $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} > 1.8 \times 10^{24}$ year (stat.+syst.) at 90% CI. Under the light Majorana neutrino exchange mechanism this corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of $\left < (0.28$--$0.49)$ eV, dependent upon the nuclear matrix element utilized.

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2022
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6. Status and initial physics performance studies of the MPD experiment at NICA

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MPD Collaboration, Abgaryan, V., Kado, R. Acevedo, Afanasyev, S. V., Agakishiev, G. N., Alpatov, E., Altsybeev, G., Hernández, M. Alvarado, Andreeva, S. V., Andreeva, T. V., Andronov, E. V., Anfimov, N. V., Aparin, A. A., Astakhov, V. I., Atkin, E., Aushev, T., Averichev, G. S., Averyanov, A. V., Ayala, A., Babkin, V. A., Babutsidze, T., Balashov, I. A., Bancer, A., Barabanov, M. Yu., Baranov, D. A., Baranova, N., Barbashina, N., Baskakov, A. E., Batyuk, P. N., Bazhazhin, A. G., Baznat, D., Baznat, M., Bazylev, S. N., Beltran, L. G. E., Belyaev, A. V., Belyaev, S. E., Belyaeva, E. V., Benda, V., Bielewicz, M., Bietenholz, W., Blaschke, D., Blau, D., Bogdanova, G., Bogoslovsky, D. N., Boguslavsky, I. V., Boos, E., Botvina, A., Bravina, L., Bulychjov, S. A., Buryakov, M. G., Butenko, A. V., Butorin, A. V., Buzin, S. G., Bychkov, A., Bychkov, A. V., Cabellero, R. R., Arciniega, D. Chaires, Chalyshev, V. V., Chen, W., Chen, Z., Cheplakova, V. A., Chepurnov, V. F., Chepurnov, V. V., Cheremnova, M., Cheremukhina, G. A., Chlad, L., Chudoba, P., Chumakov, P. V., Cuautle, E., Czarnynoga, M., Dabrowska, B., Dąbrowski, D., Demanov, A., Dementyev, D. V., Deng, Z., Dmitriev, A. V., Dodokhov, V. Kh., Dolbilina, E. V., Dolbilov, A. G., Domínguez, I., Dominik, W., Donets, D. E., Dronik, V., Dubrovin, A. Yu., Dudziński, A., Dulov, P., Dunin, N. V., Dunin, V. B., Dyatlov, V., Dydyshko, V. F., Efremov, A. A., Egorov, D. S., Elsha, V. V., Emelyanov, A. E., Emelyanov, N. E., Ermakova, V. G., Eyyubova, G., Fang, D., Fateev, O. V., Fedin, O., Fedotov, Yu. I., Fedyunin, A. A., Feng, C., Feng, S., Feofilov, G. A., Filippov, I. A., Fischer, T., Formenko, K., Gaganova, M. A., Gandzhelashvili, T. T., Gavrishchuk, O. P., Geraksiev, N., Gerasimov, S. E., Gertsenberger, K. V., Golosov, O., Golovatyuk, V. M., Golubeva, M., Goncharov, I., Gorbunov, N. V., Grabowski, M., Grodzicka-Kobyłka, M., Grodzicki, K., Grzyb, J., Guber, F., Guirado, A., Guskov, A. V., Guzey, V., He, W., Rosas, L. A. Hernández, Huang, M., Huang, Y., Idczak, R., Idrisov, D., Igolkin, S. N., Ilieva, M., Isupov, A. Yu., Ivanishchev, D., Ivanov, A. V., Ivanytskyi, O., Ivashkin, A., Izvestnyy, A., Jaworska, E., Jiao, J., Kadochnikov, I., Kakurin, S. I., Kankiewicz, P., Kapishin, M. N., Karmanov, D., Karpushkin, N., Kartashova, L. A., Kashirin, E., Kasprowicz, G., Kasumov, Yu., Kechechyan, A. O., Kekelidze, G. D., Kekelidze, V. D., Khanzadeev, A., Kharlamov, P., Khilinova, O. A., Khodzhibagiyan, G. G., Khosravi, N., Khvorostukhin, A., Khyzhniak, Y., Kikvadze, V., Kireyeu, V. A., Kiryushin, Yu. T., Kiryutin, I. S., Kisiel, A., Klyuev, A., Klyukhin, V., Kochenda, L., Kodolova, O., Kolesnikov, V. I., Kolozhvari, A., Komarov, V. G., Kondratiev, V. P., Korolev, M., Korotkikh, V., Kotov, D., Kovalenko, S., Kovalenko, V. N., Kowalski, S., Kozlenko, N. A., Krakowiak, M., Kramarenko, V. A., Krasnova, L. M., Kravchov, P., Krechetov, Yu. F., Kruglova, I. V., Krylov, A. V., Krylov, V., Kryshen, E., Kryukov, A., Kubankin, A., Kugler, A., Kuich, M., Kukarnikov, S. I., Kuklin, S. N., Kukulin, V., Kuleshov, S., Kulikov, E. A., Kulikov, V. V., Kurepin, A., Kushpil, S., Kuzmin, V. S., Kvita, J., Lanskoy, D., Lashmanov, N. A., Ławryńczuk, M., Lazareva, T. V., Lednicky, R., Li, S., Li, Z., Litvinenko, A. G, Litvinenko, E. I., Litvinova, G. N., Liu, D., Liu, F., Livanov, A. N., Lobanov, V. I., Lobanov, Yu. Yu., Lobastov, S. P., Lokhtin, I., Lu, P., Lukstinsh, Yu. R., Luong, B. V., Łysakowski, B., Ma, Y., Machavariani, A., Madigozhin, D. T., Maksiak, B., Maksimenkova, V. I., Malakhov, A. I., Malayev, M., Maldonado, I., Maldonado, J. C., Malikov, I. V., Malinina, L., Maltsev, N. A., Maria, N. V., Shopova, M., Martemianov, M. A., Maslan, M., Matsyuk, M. A., Matulewicz, T., Melnikov, D. G., Merkin, M., Merts, S. P., Meshkov, I. N., Mianowski, S., Migulina, I. I., Mikhaylov, K. R., Milewicz-Zalewska, M., Minaev, Yu. I., Molokanova, N. A., Moreno-Barbosa, E., Morozov, S., Moshkin, A. A., Moshkovsky, I. V., Moskovsky, A. E., Movchan, S. A., Mudrokh, A. A., Mukhin, K. A., Murin, Yu. A., Musul'manbekov, Zh. Zh., Myalkovsky, V. V., Myktybekov, D., Paredes, L. L. Narvaez, Nauruzbaev, D. K., Nazarova, E. N., Nechaevsky, A. V., Nesterov, D. G., Nie, M., Nieto-Marín, P. A., Nigmatkulov, G., Nikitin, V. A., Nioradze, M., Niu, X., Nowak, W., Nozka, L., Oleks, I. A., Olshevsky, A. G., Orlov, O. E., Parfenov, P., Parzhitsky, S. S., Patiño, M. E., Pavlyukevich, V. A., Penkin, V. A., Peresedov, V. F., Peresunko, D., Peshekhonov, D. V., Petrov, V. A., Petrushanko, S., Petukhov, O., Piasecki, K., Pichugina, D. V., Piloyan, A., Pilyar, A. V., Piyadin, S. M., Plamowski, S., Platonova, M., Pluta, J., Potanina, A. E., Potrebenikov, Yu. K., Poźniak, K., Prokhorova, D. S., Prokofiev, N. A., Protoklitow, F., Prozorov, A., Pszczel, D., Puchkov, A. M, Pukhaeva, N., Puławski, S., Rakhmatullina, A. R., Herrera, L. F. Rebolledo, Reyna-Ortiz, V. Z., Riabov, V., Riabov, Yu., Ridinger, N. O., Rikhvitsky, V., Rodriguez-Cahuantzi, M., Rogachevsky, O. V., Rogov, V. Yu., Rokita, P., Romanenko, G., Romaniuk, R., Romanova, A., Rosłon, K., Rossler, T., Calderon, E. F. Rozas, Rufanov, I. A., Rumyantsev, M. M., Rustamov, A., Rybakov, A. A., Rybczyński, M., Rybka, D., Rymshina, A. A., Rzadkiewicz, J., Sadygov, Z. Ya. -O., Samsonov, V. A., Sandul, V. S., Sattarov, R., Savenkov, A. A., Schmidt, K., Seballos, S. S., Sedykh, S. A., Selyuzhenkov, I., Semchukova, T. V., Semenov, A. Yu., Semenova, I. A., Sergeev, S. V., Sergeeva, N. A., Serochkin, E. V., Seryakov, A. Yu., Shabunov, A. V., Shanidze, R., Shcheglova, L., Shchinov, B. G., Shen, C., Shen, Y., Sherbakov, A. N., Sheremetyev, A. D., Sheremetyeva, A. I., Shindin, R. A., Shipunov, A. V., Shitenkov, M. O., Shtejer, D. K., Shukla, U., Shunko, A. A., Shutov, A. V., Shutov, V. B., Sidorin, A. O., Skwira-Chalot, I., Slepnev, I. V., Slepnev, V. M., Slepov, I. 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A., Voronyuk, V., Wang, F., Wang, J., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Wieczorek, P., Wielanek, D., Włodarczyk, Z., Wójcik, K., Wu, K., Xiao, Z., Xu, Q., Yang, C., Yang, H., Yang, Q., Yarygin, G. A., Yordanova, L., Yu, T., Yuan, Z., Yurevich, V. I., Zabołotny, W., Zabrodin, E., Zaitseva, M. V., Saa, J. A. Zamora, Zamyatin, N. I., Zaporozhets, S. A., Zarochentsev, A. K., Zepeda-Fernández, C. H., Zha, W., Zhalov, M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zherebchevsky, V. I., Zhezher, V. N., Zhong, C., Zhou, W., Zhu, X., Zinchenko, A. I., and Zinchenko, D. A.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The Nuclotron-base Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), with commissioning of the facility expected in late 2022. The Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) has been designed to operate at NICA and its components are currently in production. The detector is expected to be ready for data taking with the first beams from NICA. This document provides an overview of the landscape of the investigation of the QCD phase diagram in the region of maximum baryonic density, where NICA and MPD will be able to provide significant and unique input. It also provides a detailed description of the MPD set-up, including its various subsystems as well as its support and computing infrastructures. Selected performance studies for particular physics measurements at MPD are presented and discussed in the context of existing data and theoretical expectations., Comment: 53 pages, 68 figures, submitted as a Review article to EPJA

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2022
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7. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of $^{100}$Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment

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Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., Chiesa, D., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rojas, A., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale cryogenic $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment. It consists of a 4.2 kg array of 20 enriched Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers to search for the lepton number violating process of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo. With more than one year of operation (2.16 kg$\times$yr of physics data), no event in the region of interest and hence no evidence for $0\nu\beta\beta$ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{100}$Mo of $T_{1/2} > 1.5 \times 10^{24}\,$yr at 90 % C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass $\langle m_{\beta\beta} \rangle$ $<$ (0.31--0.54)$\,$eV, dependent on the nuclear matrix element in the light Majorana neutrino exchange interpretation.

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2020
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8. Pulse Shape Discrimination in CUPID-Mo using Principal Component Analysis

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Huang, R., Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dixon, T., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Mariam, R., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Scarpaci, J. A., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., Zarytskyy, M. M., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

CUPID-Mo is a cryogenic detector array designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo. It uses 20 scintillating $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ bolometers instrumented with Ge light detectors to perform active suppression of $\alpha$ backgrounds, drastically reducing the expected background in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ signal region. As a result, pileup events and small detector instabilities that mimic normal signals become non-negligible potential backgrounds. These types of events can in principle be eliminated based on their signal shapes, which are different from those of regular bolometric pulses. We show that a purely data-driven principal component analysis based approach is able to filter out these anomalous events, without the aid of detector response simulations.

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2020
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9. Precise measurement of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo with the CUPID-Mo detection technology

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Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Kotila, J., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X-F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We report the measurement of the two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru using lithium molybdate (\crystal) scintillating bolometers. The detectors were developed for the CUPID-Mo program and operated at the EDELWEISS-III low background facility in the Modane underground laboratory. From a total exposure of $42.235$ kg$\times$d, the half-life of $^{100}$Mo is determined to be $T_{1/2}^{2\nu}=[7.12^{+0.18}_{-0.14}\,\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm0.10\,\mathrm{(syst.)}]\times10^{18}$ years. This is the most accurate determination of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ half-life of $^{100}$Mo to date. We also confirm, with the statistical significance of $>3\sigma$, that the single-state dominance model of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo is favored over the high-state dominance model., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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2019
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10. First data from the CUPID-Mo neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

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Schmidt, B., Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Sorbino, S., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The CUPID-Mo experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{100}$Mo, evaluating the technology of cryogenic scintillating Li$_{2}^{100}$MoO$_4$ detectors for CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ID). CUPID-Mo detectors feature background suppression using a dual-readout scheme with Li$_{2}$MoO$_4$ crystals complemented by Ge bolometers for light detection. The detection of both heat and scintillation light signals allows the efficient discrimination of $\alpha$ from $\gamma$&$\beta$ events. In this proceedings, we discuss results from the first 2 months of data taking in spring 2019. In addition to an excellent bolometric performance of 6.7$\,$keV (FWHM) at 2615$\,$keV and an $\alpha$ separation of better than 99.9\% for all detectors, we report on bulk radiopurity for Th and U. Finally, we interpret the accumulated physics data in terms of a limit of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu}\,> 3\times10^{23}\,$yr for $^{100}$Mo and discuss the sensitivity of CUPID-Mo until the expected end of physics data taking in early 2020., Comment: Proceedings for TAUP 2019, submitted to IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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2019
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11. The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects

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Armengaud, E., Augier, C., Barabash, A. S., Bellini, F., Benato, G., Benoît, A., Beretta, M., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Borovlev, Yu. A., Bourgeois, Ch., Briere, M., Brudanin, V. B., Camus, P., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Combarieu, M., Dafinei, I., Danevich, F. A., De Jesus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Elkhoury, E., Ferri, F., Fujikawa, B. K., Gascon, J., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Grigorieva, V. D., Gros, M., Guerard, E., Helis, D. L., Huang, H. Z., Huang, R., Johnston, J., Juillard, A., Khalife, H., Kleifges, M., Kobychev, V. V., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Konovalov, S. I., Leder, A., Loaiza, P., Ma, L., Makarov, E. P., de Marcillac, P., Marini, L., Marnieros, S., Navick, X. -F., Nones, C., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Ouellet, J. L., Pagnanini, L., Pari, P., Pattavina, L., Paul, B., Pavan, M., Peng, H., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Previtali, E., Redon, Th., Rozov, S., Rusconi, C., Sanglard, V., Schäffner, K., Schmidt, B., Shen, Y., Shlegel, V. N., Siebenborn, B., Singh, V., Sorbino, S., Tomei, C., Tretyak, V. I., Umatov, V. I., Vagneron, L., Velázquez, M., Weber, M., Welliver, B., Winslow, L., Xue, M., Yakushev, E., and Zolotarova, A. S.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

CUPID-Mo is a bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo. In this article, we detail the CUPID-Mo detector concept, assembly, installation in the underground laboratory in Modane in 2018, and provide results from the first datasets. The demonstrator consists of an array of 20 scintillating bolometers comprised of $^{100}$Mo-enriched 0.2 kg Li$_2$MoO$_4$ crystals. The detectors are complemented by 20 thin cryogenic Ge bolometers acting as light detectors to distinguish $\alpha$ from $\gamma$/$\beta$ events by the detection of both heat and scintillation light signals. We observe good detector uniformity, facilitating the operation of a large detector array as well as excellent energy resolution of 5.3 keV (6.5 keV) FWHM at 2615 keV, in calibration (physics) data. Based on the observed energy resolutions and light yields a separation of $\alpha$ particles at much better than 99.9\% with equally high acceptance for $\gamma$/$\beta$ events is expected for events in the region of interest for $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$. We present limits on the crystals' radiopurity ($\leq$3 $\mu$Bq/kg of $^{226}$Ra and $\leq$2 $\mu$Bq/kg of $^{232}$Th). Based on these initial results we also discuss a sensitivity study for the science reach of the CUPID-Mo experiment, in particular, the ability to set the most stringent half-life limit on the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay after half a year of livetime. The achieved results show that CUPID-Mo is a successful demonstrator of the technology - developed in the framework of the LUMINEU project - selected for the CUPID experiment, a proposed follow-up of CUORE, the currently running first tonne-scale cryogenic $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment., Comment: 15 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables; to be submitted to EPJC

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2019
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12. Astrophysical $S_{E2}$ factor of the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha,\gamma){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction through the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}({}^{11}\mathrm{B},{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ transfer reaction

Author

Shen, Y. P., Guo, B., Li, Z. H., Li, Y. J., Pang, D. Y., Adhikari, S., An, Z. D., Su, J., Yan, S. Q., Du, X. C., Fan, Q. W., Gan, L., Han, Z. Y., Li, D. H., Li, E. T., Lian, G., Liu, J. C., Ma, T. L., Pei, C. J., Su, Y., Wang, Y. B., Zhou, Y., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha,\gamma){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction plays a key role in the evolution of stars with masses of $M >$ 0.55 $M_\odot$. The cross-section of the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha,\gamma){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction within the Gamow window ($E_\textrm{c.m.}$ = 300 keV, $T_\textrm9$ = 0.2) is extremely small (about $10^{-17}$ barn), which makes the direct measurement in a ground-based laboratory with existing techniques unfeasible. Up until now, the cross-sections at lower energies can only be extrapolated from the data at higher energies. However, two subthreshold resonances, located at $E_x$ = 7.117 MeV and $E_x$ = 6.917 MeV, make this extrapolation more complicated. In this work, the 6.917 MeV subthreshold resonance in the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha,\gamma){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction was investigated via the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}({}^{11}\mathrm{B},{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction. The experiment was performed using the Q3D magnetic spectrograph at the HI-13 tandem accelerator. We measured the angular distribution of the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}({}^{11}\mathrm{B},{}^{7}\mathrm{Li}){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ transfer reaction leading to the 6.917 MeV state. Based on the FRDWBA analysis, we derived the asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) of the 6.917 MeV level in $^{16}$O to be (1.10 $\pm$ 0.29) $\times 10^{10}$ fm$^{-1}$, with which the reduced $\alpha$ width was computed to be $18.0\pm4.7$ keV at the channel radius of 6.5 fm. Finally, we calculated the astrophysical $S_{E2}(300)$ factor of the ground-state transitions to be 46.2 $\pm$ 7.7 keV b. The result for the astrophysical $S_{E2}(300)$ factor confirms the values obtained in various direct and indirect measurements and presents an independent examination of the most important data in nuclear astrophysics., Comment: submitted to Physical Review C

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2018
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13. The 95zr(n, gamma)96zr cross section from the surrogate ratio method and its effect on the s-process nucleosynthesis

Author

Yan, S. Q., Li, Z. H., Wang, Y. B., Nishio, K., Lugaro, M., Karakas, A. I., Makii, H., Mohr, P., Su, J., Li, Y. J., Nishinaka, I., Hirose, K., Han, Y. L., Orlandi, R., Shen, Y. P., Guo, B., Zeng, S., Lian, G., Chen, Y. S., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The 95Zr(n,gamma)96Zr reaction cross section is crucial in the modelling of s-process nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars because it controls the operation of the branching point at the unstable 95Zr and the subsequent production of 96Zr. We have carried out the measurement of the 94Zr(18O,16O) and 90Zr(18O,16O) reactions and obtained the gamma-decay probability ratio of 96Zr* and 92Zr* to determine the 95Zr(n,gamma)96Zr reaction cross sections with the surrogate ratio method. Our deduced maxwellian-averaged cross section of 66+-16 mb at 30 keV is close to the value recommended by Bao et al. (2000), but 30% and more than a factor of two larger than the values proposed by Toukan & Kappeler (1990) and Lugaro et al. (2014), respectively, and routinely used in s-process models. We tested the new rate in stellar models with masses between 2 and 6 Msun and metallicities 0.014 and 0.03. The largest changes - up 80% variations in 96Zr - are seen in models of mass 3-4 Msun, where the 22Ne neutron source is mildly activated. The new rate can still provide a match to data from meteoritic stardust silicon carbide grains, provided the maximum mass of the parent stars is below 4 Msun, for a metallicity of 0.03., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2017
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14. A proposed direct measurement of cross section at Gamow window for key reaction $^{19}$F($p$,$\alpha$)$^{16}$O in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars with a planned accelerator in CJPL

Author

He, J. J., Xu, S. W., Ma, S. B., Hu, J., Zhang, L. Y., Fu, C. B., Zhang, N. T., Lian, G., Su, J., Li, Y. J., Yan, S. Q., Shen, Y. P., Hou, S. Q., Jia, B. L., Zhang, T., Zhang, X. P., Guo, B., Kubono, S., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

In 2014, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) approved the Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics laboratory (JUNA) project, which aims at direct cross-section measurements of four key stellar nuclear reactions right down to the Gamow windows. In order to solve the observed fluorine overabundances in Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars, measuring the key $^{19}$F($p$,$\alpha$)$^{16}$O reaction at effective burning energies (i.e., at Gamow window) is established as one of the scientific research sub-projects. The present paper describes this sub-project in details, including motivation, status, experimental setup, yield and background estimation, aboveground test, as well as other relevant reactions., Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

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2016
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15. Characterization and Performance of Germanium Detectors with sub-keV Sensitivities for Neutrino and Dark Matter Experiments

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The TEXONO Collaboration, Soma, A. K., Singh, M. K., Singh, L., Kumar, G. Kiran, Lin, F. K., Du, Q., Jiang, H., Liu, S. K., Ma, J. L., Sharma, V., Wang, L., Wu, Y. C., Yang, L. T., Zhao, W., Agartioglu, M., Asryan, G., Chang, Y. Y., Chen, J. H., Chuang, Y. C., Deniz, M., Hsu, C. L., Hsu, Y. H., Huang, T. R., Jia, L. P., Kerman, S., Li, H. B., Li, J., Liao, F. T., Liao, H. Y., Lin, C. W., Lin, S. T., Marian, V., Ruan, X. C., Sevda, B., Shen, Y. T., Singh, V., Sonay, A., Su, J., Subrahmanyam, V. S., Tseng, C. H., Wang, J. J., Wong, H. T., Xu, Y., Yang, S. W., Yu, C. X., Yue, Q., and Zeyrek, M.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Germanium ionization detectors with sensitivities as low as 100 eVee (electron-equivalent energy) open new windows for studies on neutrino and dark matter physics. The relevant physics subjects are summarized. The detectors have to measure physics signals whose amplitude is comparable to that of pedestal electronic noise. To fully exploit this new detector technique, various experimental issues including quenching factors, energy reconstruction and calibration, signal triggering and selection as well as evaluation of their associated efficiencies have to be attended. The efforts and results of a research program to address these challenges are presented., Comment: 18 pages, 18 figures, 3 table; v3 -- Published Version

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2014
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16. Proton widths of the low-lying 16F states from the 15N(7Li, 6Li)16N reaction

Author

Wu, Z. D., Guo, B., Li, Z. H., Li, Y. J., Su, J., Pang, D. Y., Yan, S. Q., Li, E. T., Bai, X. X., Du, X. C., Fan, Q. W., Gan, L., He, J. J., Jin, S. J., Jing, L., Li, L., Li, Z. C., Lian, G., Liu, J. C., Shen, Y. P., Wang, Y. B., Yu, X. Q., Zeng, S., Zhang, D. H., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, W. J., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

All the 16F levels are unbound by proton emission. To date the four low-lying 16F levels below 1 MeV have been experimentally identified with well established spin-parity values and excitation energies with an accuracy of 4 - 6 keV. However, there are still considerable discrepancies for their level widths. The present work aims to explore these level widths through an independent method. The angular distributions of the 15N(7Li, 6Li)16N reaction leading to the first four states in 16N were measured using a high-precision Q3D magnetic spectrograph. The neutron spectroscopic factors and the asymptotic normalization coefficients for these states in 16N were then derived based on distorted wave Born approximation analysis. The proton widths of the four low-lying resonant states in 16F were obtained according to charge symmetry of strong interaction., Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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2014
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17. Spectroscopic factors for low-lying 16N levels and the astrophysical 15N(n,gamma)16N reaction rate

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Guo, B., Li, Z. H., Li, Y. J., Su, J., Pang, D. Y., Yan, S. Q., Wu, Z. D., Li, E. T., Bai, X. X., Du, X. C., Fan, Q. W., Gan, L., He, J. J., Jin, S. J., Jing, L., Li, L., Li, Z. C., Lian, G., Liu, J. C., Shen, Y. P., Wang, Y. B., Yu, X. Q., Zeng, S., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, W. J., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Fluorine is a key element for nucleosynthetic studies since it is extremely sensitive to the physical conditions within stars. The astrophysical site to produce fluorine is suggested to be asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In these stars the 15N(n, g)16N reaction could affect the abundance of fluorine by competing with 15N(a, g)19F. The 15N(n, g)16N reaction rate depends directly on the neutron spectroscopic factors of the low-lying states in 16N. The angular distributions of the 15N(7Li, 6Li)16N reaction populating the ground state and the first three excited states in 16N are measured using a Q3D magnetic spectrograph and are used to derive the spectroscopic factors of these states based on distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis. The spectroscopic factors of these four states are extracted to be 0.96+-0.09, 0.69+-0.09, 0.84+-0.08 and 0.65+-0.08, respectively. Based on the new spectroscopic factors we derive the 15N(n,g)16N reaction rate. The accuracy and precision of the spectroscopic factors are enhanced due to the first application of high-precision magnetic spectrograph for resolving the closely-spaced 16N levels which can not be achieved in most recent measurement. The present result demonstrates that two levels corresponding to neutron transfers to the 2s1/2 orbit in 16N are not so good single-particle levels although 15N is a closed neutron-shell nucleus. This finding is contrary to the shell model expectation. The present work also provides an independent examination to shed some light on the existing discrepancies in the spectroscopic factors and the 15N(n, g)16N rate., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

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2013
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18. Spectroscopic factors for low-lying 16N levels and the astrophysical 15N(n,gamma)16N reaction rate

Author

Guo, B., Li, Z. H., Li, Y. J., Su, J., Pang, D. Y., Yan, S. Q., Wu, Z. D., Li, E. T., Bai, X. X., Du, X. C., Fan, Q. W., Gan, L., He, J. J., Jin, S. J., Jing, L., Li, L., Li, Z. C., Lian, G., Liu, J. C., Shen, Y. P., Wang, Y. B., Yu, X. Q., Zeng, S., Zhang, L. Y., Zhang, W. J., and Liu, W. P.

Subjects
FOS: Physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Fluorine is a key element for nucleosynthetic studies since it is extremely sensitive to the physical conditions within stars. The astrophysical site to produce fluorine is suggested to be asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In these stars the 15N(n, g)16N reaction could affect the abundance of fluorine by competing with 15N(a, g)19F. The 15N(n, g)16N reaction rate depends directly on the neutron spectroscopic factors of the low-lying states in 16N. The angular distributions of the 15N(7Li, 6Li)16N reaction populating the ground state and the first three excited states in 16N are measured using a Q3D magnetic spectrograph and are used to derive the spectroscopic factors of these states based on distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis. The spectroscopic factors of these four states are extracted to be 0.96+-0.09, 0.69+-0.09, 0.84+-0.08 and 0.65+-0.08, respectively. Based on the new spectroscopic factors we derive the 15N(n,g)16N reaction rate. The accuracy and precision of the spectroscopic factors are enhanced due to the first application of high-precision magnetic spectrograph for resolving the closely-spaced 16N levels which can not be achieved in most recent measurement. The present result demonstrates that two levels corresponding to neutron transfers to the 2s1/2 orbit in 16N are not so good single-particle levels although 15N is a closed neutron-shell nucleus. This finding is contrary to the shell model expectation. The present work also provides an independent examination to shed some light on the existing discrepancies in the spectroscopic factors and the 15N(n, g)16N rate., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables

Published
2014
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