Search for exotic physics in double-β decays with GERDA Phase II

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Beitragende

  • GERDA collaboration - (Autor:in)
  • Professur für Kernphysik
  • University College London
  • Universität Zürich
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • RAS - Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  • Università degli studi di Padova
  • Technische Universität München
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of L'Aquila
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • European Commission
  • Dubna State University
  • Technische Universität Dresden

Abstract

A search for Beyond the Standard Model double-β decay modes of 76Ge has been performed with data collected during the Phase II of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN (Italy). Improved limits on the decays involving Majorons have been obtained, compared to previous experiments with 76Ge, with half-life values on the order of 1023 yr. For the first time with 76Ge, limits on Lorentz invariance violation effects in double-β decay have been obtained. The isotropic coefficient å(3) of , which embeds Lorentz violation in double-β decay, has been constrained at the order of 10-6 GeV. We also set the first experimental limits on the search for light exotic fermions in double-β decay, including sterile neutrinos.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer012
FachzeitschriftJournal of cosmology and astroparticle physics
Jahrgang2022
Ausgabenummer12
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2022
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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Schlagwörter

  • double beta decay, neutrino properties, particle physics - cosmology connection