Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ${}^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 Detector

Abstract

We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double-$\beta$ decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$) of ${}^{100}$Mo, using the NEMO-3 detector to reconstruct the full topology of the final state events. With an exposure of 34.7 kg.y, no evidence for the 0$\nu \beta \beta$ signal has been found, yielding a limit for the light Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of $T_{1/2}(0\nu \beta \beta )>1.1\times 10^{24}$ years (90% C.L.) once both statistical and systematic uncertainties are taken into account. Depending on the Nuclear Matrix Elements this corresponds to an upper limit on the Majorana effective neutrino mass of $<m_{\nu }><0.3-0.9$ eV (90% C.L.). Constraints on other lepton number violating mechanisms of 0$\nu \beta \beta$ decays are also given. Searching for high-energy double electron events in all suitable sources of the detector, no event in the energy region [3.2-10] MeV is observed for an exposure of 47 kg.y.

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