Searching for neutrino-less double beta decay of 136Xe with PandaX-II liquid xenon detector

Kaixiang Ni; Yihui Lai; Abdusalam Abdukerim; Wei Chen; Xun Chen; Yunhua Chen; Xiangyi Cui; Yingjie Fan; Deqing Fang; Changbo Fu; Lisheng Geng; Karl Giboni; Franco Giuliani; Linhui Gu; Xuyuan Guo; Ke Han; Changda He; Di Huang; Yan Huang; Yanlin Huang; Zhou Huang; Peng Ji; Xiangdong Ji; Yonglin Ju; Kun Liang; Huaxuan Liu; Jianglai Liu; Wenbo Ma; Yugang Ma; Yajun Mao; Yue Meng; Parinya Namwongsa; Jinhua Ning; Xuyang Ning; Xiangxiang Ren; Changsong Shang; Lin Si; Andi Tan; Anqing Wang; Hongwei Wang; Meng Wang; Qiuhong Wang; Siguang Wang; Xiuli Wang; Zhou Wang; Mengmeng Wu; Shiyong Wu; Jingkai Xia; Mengjiao Xiao; Pengwei Xie; Binbin Yan; Jijun Yang; Yong Yang; Chunxu Yu; Jumin Yuan; Dan Zhang; Hongguang Zhang; Tao Zhang; Li Zhao; Qibin Zheng; Jifang Zhou; Ning Zhou; Xiaopeng Zhou

doi:10.1088/1674-1137/43/11/113001

Searching for neutrino-less double beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe with PandaX-II liquid xenon detector

Kaixiang Ni
, Yihui Lai
, Abdusalam Abdukerim
, Wei Chen
, Xun Chen
, Yunhua Chen
, Xiangyi Cui
, Yingjie Fan
, Deqing Fang
, Changbo Fu
, Lisheng Geng
, Karl Giboni
, Franco Giuliani
, Linhui Gu
, Xuyuan Guo
, Ke Han
, Changda He
, Di Huang
, Yan Huang
, Yanlin Huang

Zhou Huang, Peng Ji, Xiangdong Ji, Yonglin Ju, Kun Liang, Huaxuan Liu, Jianglai Liu, Wenbo Ma, Yugang Ma, Yajun Mao, Yue Meng, Parinya Namwongsa, Jinhua Ning, Xuyang Ning, Xiangxiang Ren, Changsong Shang, Lin Si, Andi Tan, Anqing Wang, Hongwei Wang, Meng Wang, Qiuhong Wang, Siguang Wang, Xiuli Wang, Zhou Wang, Mengmeng Wu, Shiyong Wu, Jingkai Xia, Mengjiao Xiao, Pengwei Xie, Binbin Yan, Jijun Yang, Yong Yang, Chunxu Yu, Jumin Yuan, Dan Zhang, Hongguang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Zhao, Qibin Zheng, Jifang Zhou, Ning Zhou, Xiaopeng Zhou

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Abstract

We report the Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) search results from PandaX-II dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber. The total live time used in this analysis is 403.1 days from June 2016 to August 2018. With NLDBD-optimized event selection criteria, we obtain a fiducial mass of 219 kg of natural xenon. The accumulated xenon exposure is 242 kg•yr, or equivalently 22.2 kg•yr of ¹³⁶Xe exposure. At the region around ¹³⁶Xe decay Q-value of 2458 keV, the energy resolution of PandaX-II is 4.2%. We find no evidence of NLDBD in PandaX-II and establish a lower limit for decay half-life of 2.1 × 10²³ yr at the 90% confidence level, which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass m_ββ < (1.4 3.7) eV. This is the first NLDBD result reported from a dual-phase xenon experiment.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	113001
Journal	Chinese Physics C
Volume	43
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/43/11/113001
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords

dark matter
liquid xenon detector
neutrino-less double beta decay
underground physics

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Ni, K., Lai, Y., Abdukerim, A., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Cui, X., Fan, Y., Fang, D., Fu, C., Geng, L., Giboni, K., Giuliani, F., Gu, L., Guo, X., Han, K., He, C., Huang, D., Huang, Y., ... Zhou, X. (2019). Searching for neutrino-less double beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe with PandaX-II liquid xenon detector. Chinese Physics C, 43(11), Article 113001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/43/11/113001

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AU - Ren, Xiangxiang

AU - Shang, Changsong

AU - Si, Lin

AU - Tan, Andi

AU - Wang, Anqing

AU - Wang, Hongwei

AU - Wang, Meng

AU - Wang, Qiuhong

AU - Wang, Siguang

AU - Wang, Xiuli

AU - Wang, Zhou

AU - Wu, Mengmeng

AU - Wu, Shiyong

AU - Xia, Jingkai

AU - Xiao, Mengjiao

AU - Xie, Pengwei

AU - Yan, Binbin

AU - Yang, Jijun

AU - Yang, Yong

AU - Yu, Chunxu

AU - Yuan, Jumin

AU - Zhang, Dan

AU - Zhang, Hongguang

AU - Zhang, Tao

AU - Zhao, Li

AU - Zheng, Qibin

AU - Zhou, Jifang

AU - Zhou, Ning

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N2 - We report the Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) search results from PandaX-II dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber. The total live time used in this analysis is 403.1 days from June 2016 to August 2018. With NLDBD-optimized event selection criteria, we obtain a fiducial mass of 219 kg of natural xenon. The accumulated xenon exposure is 242 kg•yr, or equivalently 22.2 kg•yr of 136Xe exposure. At the region around 136Xe decay Q-value of 2458 keV, the energy resolution of PandaX-II is 4.2%. We find no evidence of NLDBD in PandaX-II and establish a lower limit for decay half-life of 2.1 × 1023 yr at the 90% confidence level, which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass mββ < (1.4 3.7) eV. This is the first NLDBD result reported from a dual-phase xenon experiment.

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