Search for Pauli exclusion principle violating atomic transitions and electron decay with a p-type point contact germanium detector

被引：15

作者：

Abgrall, N. ^{[5
]}

Arnquist, I. J. ^{[8
]}

Avignone, F. T., III ^{[14
]}

Barabash, A. S. ^{[2
]}

Bertrand, F. E. ^{[6
]}

Bradley, A. W. ^{[5
]}

Brudanin, V. ^{[3
]}

Busch, M. ^{[11
]}

Buuck, M. ^{[17
]}

Caldwell, A. S. ^{[10
]}

Chan, Y. -D. ^{[5
]}

Christofferson, C. D. ^{[10
]}

Chu, P. -H. ^{[4
]}

Cuesta, C. ^{[17
]}

Detwiler, J. A. ^{[17
]}

Dunagan, C. ^{[10
]}

Efremenko, Yu. ^{[16
]}

Ejiri, H. ^{[7
]}

Elliott, S. R. ^{[4
]}

Finnerty, P. S. ^{[11
,13
]}

Galindo-Uribarri, A. ^{[6
]}

Gilliss, T. ^{[11
,13
]}

Giovanetti, G. K. ^{[11
,13
]}

Goett, J. ^{[4
]}

Green, M. P. ^{[11
]}

Gruszko, J. ^{[17
]}

Guinn, I. S. ^{[17
]}

Guiseppe, V. E. ^{[14
]}

Henning, R. ^{[11
,13
]}

Hoppe, E. W. ^{[8
]}

Howard, S. ^{[10
]}

Howe, M. A. ^{[11
,13
]}

Jasinski, B. R. ^{[15
]}

Keeter, K. J. ^{[1
]}

Kidd, M. F. ^{[12
]}

Konovalov, S. I. ^{[2
]}

Kouzes, R. T. ^{[8
]}

LaFerriere, B. D. ^{[8
]}

Leon, J. ^{[17
]}

MacMullin, J. ^{[11
,13
]}

Martin, R. D. ^{[9
]}

Massarczyk, R. ^{[4
]}

Meijer, S. J. ^{[11
,13
]}

Mertens, S. ^{[5
]}

Orrell, J. L. ^{[8
]}

O'Shaughnessy, C. ^{[11
,13
]}

Poon, A. W. P. ^{[5
]}

Radford, D. C. ^{[6
]}

Rager, J. ^{[11
,13
]}

Rielage, K. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Black Hills State Univ, Dept Phys, Spearfish, SD 57799 USA

[2] Natl Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow, Russia

[3] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia

[4] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM USA

[5] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Nucl Sci, Berkeley, CA USA

[6] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN USA

[7] Osaka Univ, Nucl Phys Res Ctr, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

[8] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA USA

[9] Queens Univ, Dept Phys Engn Phys & Astron, Kingston, ON, Canada

[10] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Rapid City, SD USA

[11] Triangle Univ Nucl Lab, Durham, NC 27706 USA

[12] Tennessee Technol Univ, Cookeville, TN USA

[13] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA

[14] Univ South Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC USA

[15] Univ South Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD USA

[16] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN USA

[17] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Ctr Expt Nucl Phys & Astrophys, Seattle, WA USA

[18] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Nucl Engn, Berkeley, CA USA

来源：

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2016年 / 76卷 / 11期

基金：

俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

EXPERIMENTAL LIMIT; FERMI;

D O I：

10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4467-0

中图分类号：

O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating K electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium detector operated at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. A lower limit on the transition lifetime of s at 90% C.L. was set by looking for a peak at 10.6 keV resulting from the X-ray and Auger electrons present following the transition. A similar analysis was done to look for the decay of atomic K-shell electrons into neutrinos, resulting in a lower limit of s at 90% C.L. It is estimated that the Majorana Demonstrator, a 44 kg array of p-type point contact detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge, could improve upon these exclusion limits by an order of magnitude after three years of operation.

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