Abstract
Despite the fact that the electric charge conservation law is confirmed by many experiments, search for its possible violation remains a way of searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. Experimental searches for the electric charge non-conservation mainly consider electron decays into neutral particles. The Borexino experiment is an excellent tool for the electron decay search due to the highest radiopurity among all the existing experiments, large detector mass, and good sensitivity at low energies. The process considered in this study is a decay into a photon and a neutrino, for which a new lower limit on the electron lifetime is obtained. This is the best electron lifetime limit up to date, exceeding the previous one obtained at the Borexino prototype at two orders of magnitude.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 012193 |
Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
Volume | 888 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 20 2017 |
Event | 27th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Neutrino 2016 - South Kensington, United Kingdom Duration: Jul 4 2016 → Jul 9 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy