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Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset.

Authors :
Anton G
Badhrees I
Barbeau PS
Beck D
Belov V
Bhatta T
Breidenbach M
Brunner T
Cao GF
Cen WR
Chambers C
Cleveland B
Coon M
Craycraft A
Daniels T
Danilov M
Darroch L
Daugherty SJ
Davis J
Delaquis S
Der Mesrobian-Kabakian A
DeVoe R
Dilling J
Dolgolenko A
Dolinski MJ
Echevers J
Fairbank W
Fairbank D
Farine J
Feyzbakhsh S
Fierlinger P
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
Piepke A
Pocar A
Retière F
Robinson AL
Rowson PC
Ruddell D
Runge J
Schmidt S
Sinclair D
Soma AK
Stekhanov V
Tarka M
Todd J
Tolba T
Totev TI
Veenstra B
Veeraraghavan V
Vogel P
Vuilleumier JL
Wagenpfeil M
Watkins J
Weber M
Wen LJ
Wichoski U
Wrede G
Wu SX
Xia Q
Yahne DR
Yang L
Yen YR
Zeldovich OY
Ziegler T
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2019 Oct 18; Vol. 123 (16), pp. 161802.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

A search for neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) in ^{136}Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between 0νββ and background events. Relative to previous analyses, the signal detection efficiency has been raised from 80.8% to 96.4±3.0%, and the energy resolution of the detector at the Q value of ^{136}Xe 0νββ has been improved from σ/E=1.23% to 1.15±0.02% with the upgraded detector. Accounting for the new data, the median 90% confidence level 0νββ half-life sensitivity for this analysis is 5.0×10^{25}  yr with a total ^{136}Xe exposure of 234.1 kg yr. No statistically significant evidence for 0νββ is observed, leading to a lower limit on the 0νββ half-life of 3.5×10^{25}  yr at the 90% confidence level.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
123
Issue :
16
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
31702371
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.161802