First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double-β Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment
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Beitragende
- Professur für Kernphysik
- Professur für Beschleuniger-Massenspektrometrie und Isotopenforschung (gB HZDR)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
- University College London
- Simon Fraser University
- Universität Zürich
- University of South Carolina
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- University of Texas at Austin
- Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics
- Duke University
- Roma Tre University
- RAS - Institute for Nuclear Research
- Gran Sasso Science Institute
- North Carolina State University
- University of Washington
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- University of Liverpool (UOL)
- Università degli studi di Padova
- Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
- Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden
Abstract
The LEGEND Collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double-beta ((Formula presented)) decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in (Formula presented) in a low-background liquid argon environment. Building on key technological innovations from the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment, LEGEND-200 has performed a first (Formula presented) decay search based on 61.0 kg yr of data. Over half of this exposure comes from our highest performing detectors, including newly developed inverted-coaxial detectors, and is characterized by an estimated background level of (Formula presented) in the (Formula presented) decay signal region. A combined analysis of data from GERDA, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, and LEGEND-200, characterized by a 90% confidence level exclusion sensitivity of (Formula presented) on the half-life of (Formula presented) decay, reveals no evidence for a signal and sets a new observed lower limit at (Formula presented) (90% confidence level). Assuming the decay is mediated by Majorana neutrinos, this corresponds to an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass in the range (Formula presented), depending on the adopted nuclear matrix element.
Details
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
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| Aufsatznummer | 022701 |
| Fachzeitschrift | Physical review letters |
| Jahrgang | 136 |
| Ausgabenummer | 2 |
| Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 16 Jan. 2026 |
| Peer-Review-Status | Ja |
Externe IDs
| PubMed | 41616370 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0002-0406-5800/work/206633980 |
| ORCID | /0000-0002-6705-7138/work/206635825 |