| Literature DB >> 22181874 |
N Ackerman1, B Aharmim, M Auger, D J Auty, P S Barbeau, K Barry, L Bartoszek, E Beauchamp, V Belov, C Benitez-Medina, M Breidenbach, A Burenkov, B Cleveland, R Conley, E Conti, J Cook, S Cook, A Coppens, I Counts, W Craddock, T Daniels, M V Danilov, C G Davis, J Davis, R deVoe, Z Djurcic, A Dobi, A G Dolgolenko, M J Dolinski, K Donato, M Dunford, W Fairbank, J Farine, P Fierlinger, D Franco, D Freytag, G Giroux, R Gornea, K Graham, G Gratta, M P Green, C Hägemann, C Hall, K Hall, G Haller, C Hargrove, R Herbst, S Herrin, J Hodgson, M Hughes, A Johnson, A Karelin, L J Kaufman, T Koffas, A Kuchenkov, A Kumar, K S Kumar, D S Leonard, F Leonard, F LePort, D Mackay, R MacLellan, M Marino, Y Martin, B Mong, M Montero Díez, P Morgan, A R Müller, R Neilson, R Nelson, A Odian, K O'Sullivan, C Ouellet, A Piepke, A Pocar, C Y Prescott, K Pushkin, A Rivas, E Rollin, P C Rowson, J J Russell, A Sabourov, D Sinclair, K Skarpaas, S Slutsky, V Stekhanov, V Strickland, M Swift, D Tosi, K Twelker, P Vogel, J-L Vuilleumier, J-M Vuilleumier, A Waite, S Waldman, T Walton, K Wamba, M Weber, U Wichoski, J Wodin, J D Wright, L Yang, Y-R Yen, O Ya Zeldovich.
Abstract
We report the observation of two-neutrino double-beta decay in (136)Xe with T(1/2) = 2.11 ± 0.04(stat) ± 0.21(syst) × 10(21) yr. This second-order process, predicted by the standard model, has been observed for several nuclei but not for (136)Xe. The observed decay rate provides new input to matrix element calculations and to the search for the more interesting neutrinoless double-beta decay, the most sensitive probe for the existence of Majorana particles and the measurement of the neutrino mass scale.Year: 2011 PMID： 22181874 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.212501
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN： 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161