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Le Botlan, P.; Leconte, A; Longuemare, C.; Mauger, F.; Tillier, J.
Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire, Caen Univ., 14 (France); Collaboration NEMO: LAL-Orsay, CENBG-B0rdeaux, CRN-Strasbourg, INR-Kiev (Ukraine), ITEP-Moscow (Russia), JINR-Dubna (Russia), MHC-South-Hadley (MA-USA)
Report of Activity, July 1995 - June 19971997
Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire, Caen Univ., 14 (France); Collaboration NEMO: LAL-Orsay, CENBG-B0rdeaux, CRN-Strasbourg, INR-Kiev (Ukraine), ITEP-Moscow (Russia), JINR-Dubna (Russia), MHC-South-Hadley (MA-USA)
Report of Activity, July 1995 - June 19971997
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[en] The NEMO-3 Experiment is planned to test the most troublesome hypothesis of the Standard Model according to which the neutrinos are vanishing-mass fermions carrying a given leptonic quantum number. At low energies this hypothesis can be tested on a very rare nuclear decay mode, the double beta decay. There are several natural even-even isotopes with a lifetime of the order of 1020 years which decay toward a neighbour even-even nucleus by emitting two electrons and two neutrinos with a Qββ value of the order of MeV. When the two neutrinos annihilate each other the two electrons carry the available energy, i.e. the end-point of the ββ energy spectrum. Should these two decay modes be experimentally distinguishable, then the 2β decay will check one of the two theories on the nature of neutrino: Majorana neutrinos, i.e. massive particles or Dirac particles, i.e. of vanishing mass as they look like today. More generally, from the β decay we will get information concerning the scattering of two W- bosons, which could entail extensions of the Standard Model: majoron or other theories. NEMO-3 will be able to lower the upper bound of mass uncertainty to fractions of eV, while the best current estimate is m(νe) < 1.3 eV. The NEMO-2 experiment completed in 1996 has provided the following values for the ββ lifetimes measured on 100Mo and 116Cd, respectively: T1/2 (2ν) = 0.95 ± 0.10 x 1019 years; T1/2 (0ν) = 6.40 x 1021 years (95% CL) and T1/2 (2ν) = 3.75 ± 0.50 x 1019 years; T1/2 (0ν) > 5.0 x 1021 years (95% CL), respectively. The report gives also information on the construction of NEMO-3 and trigger electronics. The scheme of the logic of decision by the T2 card (second level triggering) and the ensemble scheme of triggering system based on t1-3, t2 cards and TTL Interface are presented
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Experience NEMO: la double desintegration β
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Tamain, B. (Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire, Caen Univ., 14 (France)); Lab. de Physique Corpusculaire, Caen Univ., 14 (France); 160 p; 1997; p. 78-81; 10 refs.
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Progress Report
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BETA DECAY, BETA-MINUS DECAY, BOSONS, DECAY, DIAGRAMS, DOCUMENT TYPES, ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY, FERMIONS, FIELD THEORIES, GRAND UNIFIED THEORY, INFORMATION, ISOTOPES, LEPTONS, MASSLESS PARTICLES, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NEUTRINOS, NUCLEAR DECAY, PARTICLE MODELS, PULSE CIRCUITS, QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIOISOTOPES, SPECTROMETERS, UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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