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Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Celi E, Chapellier M, Chiesa D, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Imbert L, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Kotila J, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Šimkovic F, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Ware B, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Rate and Spectral Shape of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:162501. [PMID: 37925694 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.162501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
Abstract
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a yet unobserved nuclear process that would demonstrate Lepton number violation, a clear evidence of beyond standard model physics. The process two neutrino double beta decay (2νββ) is allowed by the standard model and has been measured in numerous experiments. In this Letter, we report a measurement of 2νββ decay half-life of ^{100}Mo to the ground state of ^{100}Ru of [7.07±0.02(stat)±0.11(syst)]×10^{18} yr by the CUPID-Mo experiment. With a relative precision of ±1.6% this is the most precise measurement to date of a 2νββ 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 ξ_{3,1}=0.45±0.03(stat)±0.05(syst) based on a constraint on the ratio of higher-order terms from theory, which can be reliably calculated. This 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 2νββ decay.
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- C Augier
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute," Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
| | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - G Benato
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
| | - M Beretta
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Bergé
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - J Billard
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - Yu A Borovlev
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - L Cardani
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - N Casali
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A Cazes
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - E Celi
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
| | - M Chapellier
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - D Chiesa
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - T Dixon
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - K Eitel
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - B K Fujikawa
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - L Gironi
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - V D Grigorieva
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - M Gros
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - D L Helis
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyvaäskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - L Ma
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - P de Marcillac
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - R Mariam
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - L Marini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - X-F Navick
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - C Nones
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
| | - G Pessina
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
| | - S Rozov
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
| | - V Sanglard
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - J A Scarpaci
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - C Tomei
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38420 Saint Martin d'Hères, France
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- John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, GPO Box U 1987, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - B Welliver
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Winslow
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
| | - E Yakushev
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
| | - M Zarytskyy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Benoît A, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Bourgeois C, Brudanin VB, Camus P, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chiesa D, de Combarieu M, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Guerard E, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Leder A, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Misiak D, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schäffner K, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:181802. [PMID: 34018798 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.181802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale bolometric 0νββ 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 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo. With more than one year of operation (^{100}Mo exposure of 1.17 kg×yr for physics data), no event in the region of interest and, hence, no evidence for 0νββ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo of T_{1/2}>1.5×10^{24} yr at 90% C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass ⟨m_{ββ}⟩<(0.31-0.54) eV, dependent on the nuclear matrix element in the light Majorana neutrino exchange interpretation.
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Affiliation(s)
- E Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - C Augier
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - A S Barabash
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
| | - F Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - G Benato
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
| | - A Benoît
- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - M Beretta
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Bergé
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - J Billard
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - Yu A Borovlev
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - Ch Bourgeois
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - V B Brudanin
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
| | - P Camus
- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - L Cardani
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - N Casali
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A Cazes
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - M Chapellier
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - F Charlieux
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - D Chiesa
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
| | - M de Combarieu
- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - I Dafinei
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
| | - F A Danevich
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - T Dixon
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Dumoulin
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - K Eitel
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - B K Fujikawa
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Gascon
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - L Gironi
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - V D Grigorieva
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - J Johnston
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - P Loaiza
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - L Ma
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
| | - E P Makarov
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - P de Marcillac
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - R Mariam
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - L Marini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - S Marnieros
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - C Nones
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - E B Norman
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - V Novati
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - E Olivieri
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - J L Ouellet
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - L Pagnanini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
| | - P Pari
- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - L Pattavina
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - M Pavan
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
| | - D V Poda
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - O G Polischuk
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
| | - S Pozzi
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - A Rojas
- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Beeman JW, Bekker TB, Bellini F, Benoît A, Bergé L, Bergmann T, Billard J, Boiko RS, Broniatowski A, Brudanin V, Camus P, Capelli S, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chernyak DM, de Combarieu M, Coron N, Danevich FA, Dafinei I, Jesus MD, Devoyon L, Domizio SD, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Enss C, Ferroni F, Fleischmann A, Foerster N, Gascon J, Gastaldo L, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Hehn L, Hervé S, Humbert V, Ivannikova NV, Ivanov IM, Jin Y, Juillard A, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Konovalov SI, Koskas F, Kozlov V, Kraus H, Kudryavtsev VA, Laubenstein M, Sueur HL, Loidl M, Magnier P, Makarov EP, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi C, Nagorny S, Navick XF, Nikolaichuk MO, Nones C, Novati V, Olivieri E, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Paul B, Penichot Y, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Plantevin O, Poda DV, Queguiner E, Redon T, Rodrigues M, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Schäffner K, Scorza S, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Strazzer O, Tcherniakhovski D, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Vasiliev YV, Velázquez M, Vignati M, Weber M, Yakushev E, Zolotarova AS. Development of 100 Mo -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2017; 77:785. [PMID: 31997932 PMCID: PMC6956908 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( ∼ 1 kg ), high optical quality, radiopure 100 Mo -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2-0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of 100 Mo (3034 keV) is 4-6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the α -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than 8 σ . Less than 10 μ Bq/kg activity of 232 Th ( 228 Th ) and 226 Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only 10 kg × d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of 100 Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as T 1 / 2 = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] × 10 18 years . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of 100 Mo .
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- E. Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - A. S. Barabash
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
| | - J. W. Beeman
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
| | - T. B. Bekker
- V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - F. Bellini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A. Benoît
- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - L. Bergé
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - T. Bergmann
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - J. Billard
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - R. S. Boiko
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
| | - A. Broniatowski
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - V. Brudanin
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
| | - S. Capelli
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
| | - L. Cardani
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - N. Casali
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - A. Cazes
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - M. Chapellier
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - F. Charlieux
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Present Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba Japan
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH UK
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - M. Loidl
- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
| | - O. Plantevin
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - M. Rodrigues
- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
| | - S. Rozov
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - K. Schäffner
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
| | - S. Scorza
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Present Address: SNOLAB, Lively, ON Canada
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - B. Siebenborn
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - O. Strazzer
- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - D. Tcherniakhovski
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - C. Tomei
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | | | - V. I. Umatov
- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
| | - L. Vagneron
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
| | - Ya. V. Vasiliev
- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - M. Velázquez
- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France
| | - M. Vignati
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
| | - M. Weber
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - E. Yakushev
- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
| | - A. S. Zolotarova
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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