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most citedThe Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)

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nucl-ex2022★ 7 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229

This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…

physics.ins-det2021★ 52 cited

LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261

We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one o…

physics.ins-det2021

Measurement of the distribution of Bi depositions on calibration sources for SuperNEMO

R. Arnold, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +97

The SuperNEMO experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (), and study the Standard-Model double-beta decay process (). The SuperNEMO technology can meas…

physics.ins-det2020

Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments

I. Abt, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +22

PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is i…

physics.ins-det2020★ 6 cited

Search for the double-beta decay of 82Se to the excited states of 82Kr with NEMO-3

3 collaboration, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +104

The double-beta decay of 82Se to the 0+1 excited state of 82Kr has been studied with the NEMO-3 detector using 0.93 kg of enriched 82Se measured for 4.75 y, corresponding to an exp…

nucl-ex2019★ 6 cited

Detailed studies of Mo two-neutrino double beta decay in NEMO-3

3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +103

The full data set of the NEMO-3 experiment has been used to measure the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Mo to the ground state of Ru, $T_{1/2} =…

nucl-ex2018★ 37 cited

Quenching of deduced from the -spectrum shape of Cd measured with the COBRA experiment

Lucas Bodenstein-Dresler, Yingjie Chu, Daniel Gehre +17

A dedicated study of the quenching of the weak axial-vector coupling strength in nuclear processes has been performed by the COBRA collaboration. This investigation is…

physics.ins-det2017★ 216 cited

The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Abramov +230

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutr…

hep-ex2017★ 29 cited

Search for neutrinoless quadruple- decay of Nd with the NEMO-3 detector

R. Arnold, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +96

We report the results of a first experimental search for lepton number violation by four units in the neutrinoless quadruple- decay of Nd using a total exposure of $0.19…

physics.ins-det2017★ 27 cited

The BiPo-3 detector for the measurement of ultra low natural radioactivities of thin materials

A. S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, E. Birdsall +93

The BiPo-3 detector, running in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, LSC, Spain) since 2013, is a low-radioactivity detector dedicated to measu…

nucl-th2016★ 18 cited

Can one measure the Cosmic Neutrino Background?

Amand Faessler, Rastislav Hodak, Sergey Kovalenko +1

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) yields information about our Universe at around 380 000 years after the Big Bang (BB). Due to the weak interaction of the neutrinos with matte…

nucl-th2013★ 2 cited

Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background and KATRIN

Amand Faessler, Rastislav Hodak, Sergey Kovalenko +1

The spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background follows Planck's black body radiation formula and shows a remarkable constant temperature of T = 2.7. About 380 000 years after the…

hep-ph2011★ 15 cited

Beta Decaying Nuclei as a Probe of Cosmic Neutrino Background

Rastislav Hodak, Sergey Kovalenko, Fedor Simkovic +1

We analyze the possibility of detection of cosmological relic neutrinos via neutrino capture on beta decaying nuclei. This reaction has no threshold in neutrino energy, which is cr…

nucl-th2010★ 50 cited

Relation between the and nuclear matrix elements revisited

Fedor Šimkovic, Rastislav Hodák, Amand Faessler +1

We show that the dominant Gamow-Teller part, , of the nuclear matrix element governing the neutrinoless decay is related to the matrix element gover…