Published November 2016
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Journal article
Search for Pauli exclusion principle violating atomic transitions and electron decay with a p-type point contact germanium detector
Creators
- Abgrall, N.1
- Bradley, A.W.1
- Chan, Y.D.1
- Mertens, S.1
- Poon, A.W.P.1
- Arnquist, I.J.2
- Hoppe, E.W.2
- Kouzes, R.T.2
- LaFerriere, B.D.2
- Orrell, J.L.2
- Avignone, F.T.3, 4
- Barabash, A.S.5
- Konovalov, S.I.5
- Yumatov, V.5
- Bertrand, F.E.4
- Galindo-Uribarri, A.4
- Radford, D.C.4
- Varner, R.L.4
- White, B.R.4
- Yu, C.H.4
- Brudanin, V.6
- Shirchenko, M.6
- Vasilyev, S.6
- Yakushev, E.6
- Zhitnikov, I.6
- Busch, M.7, 8
- Buuck, M.9
- Cuesta, C.9
- Detwiler, J.A.9
- Gruszko, J.9
- Guinn, I.S.9
- Leon, J.9
- Robertson, R.G.H.9
- Caldwell, A.S.10
- Christofferson, C.D.10
- Dunagan, C.10
- Howard, S.10
- Suriano, A.M.10
- Chu, P.H.11
- Elliott, S.R.11
- Goett, J.11
- Massarczyk, R.11
- Rielage, K.11
- Efremenko, Yu.12
- Ejiri, H.13
- Finnerty, P.S.14, 7
- Gilliss, T.14, 7
- Giovanetti, G.K.14, 7
- Henning, R.14, 7
- Howe, M.A.14, 7
- MacMullin, J.14, 7
- Meijer, S.J.14, 7
- O'Shaughnessy, C.14, 7
- Rager, J.14, 7
- Shanks, B.14, 7
- Trimble, J.E.14, 7
- Vorren, K.14, 7
- Xu, W.14, 7
- Green, M.P.7, 4, 15
- Guiseppe, V.E.3
- Tedeschi, D.3
- Wiseman, C.3
- Jasinski, B.R.16
- Keeter, K.J.17
- Kidd, M.F.18
- Martin, R.D.19
- Romero-Romero, E.12, 4
- Vetter, K.20, 1
- Wilkerson, J.F.14, 7, 4
- 1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- 2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (United States)
- 3. University of South Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Columbia, SC (United States)
- 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- 5. National Research Center ''Kurchatov Institute'' Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 6. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
- 7. Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC (United States)
- 8. Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC (United States)
- 9. University of Washington, Department of Physics, Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Seattle, WA (United States)
- 10. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
- 11. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- 12. University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- 13. Osaka University, Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Ibaraki, Osaka (Japan)
- 14. University of North Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
- 15. North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Raleigh, NC (United States)
- 16. University of South Dakota, Department of Physics, Vermillion, SD (United States)
- 17. Black Hills State University, Department of Physics, Spearfish, SD (United States)
- 18. Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN (United States)
- 19. Queen's University, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Kingston, ON (Canada)
- 20. University of California, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Description
A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating Kα electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium detector operated at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. A lower limit on the transition lifetime of 5.8 x 1030 s at 90% C.L. was set by looking for a peak at 10.6 keV resulting from the X-ray and Auger electrons present following the transition. A similar analysis was done to look for the decay of atomic K-shell electrons into neutrinos, resulting in a lower limit of 6.8 x 1030 s at 90% C.L. It is estimated that the Majorana Demonstrator, a 44 kg array of p-type point contact detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge, could improve upon these exclusion limits by an order of magnitude after three years of operation. (orig.)
Availability note (English)
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4467-0Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 76
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-5
- ISSN
- 1434-6052
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 48010049
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- ATOMS; AUGER EFFECT; DE-EXCITATION; ELECTRONS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GERMANIUM; K SHELL; LIFETIME; PARTICLE DECAY; PAULI PRINCIPLE
- Descriptors DEC
- DATA; DECAY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FERMIONS; INFORMATION; LEPTONS; METALS; NUMERICAL DATA