IGEX 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment:: Prospects for next generation experiments -: art. no. 092007

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Aalseth, CE [1 ]
Avignone, FT
Brodzinski, RL
Cebrian, S
Garcia, E
Gonzalez, D
Hensley, WK
Irastorza, IG
Kirpichnikov, IV
Klimenko, AA
Miley, HS
Morales, A
Morales, J
de Solorzano, AO
Osetrov, SB
Pogosov, VS
Puimedon, J
Reeves, JH
Sarsa, ML
Smolnikov, AA
Starostin, AS
Tamanyan, AG
Vasenko, AA
Vasiliev, SI
Villar, JA
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[1] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[2] Univ S Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[3] Univ Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
[4] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[5] Baksan Neutrino Observ, Inst Nucl Res, Neutrino 361609, Russia
[6] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
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10.1103/PhysRevD.65.092007
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The International Germanium Experiment (IGEX) has analyzed 117 mol yr of Ge-76 data from its isotopically enriched (86% Ge-76) germanium detectors. Applying pulse-shape discrimination to the more recent data, the lower bound on the half-life for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge-76 is T-1/2(0nu) >1.57 x 10(25) yr (90% C.L.). This corresponds to an upper bound in the Majorana neutrino mass parameter, [m(nu)], between 0.33 and 1.35 eV, depending on the choice of theoretical nuclear matrix elements used in the analysis.
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