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Searching for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay of ¹³⁶Xe with PandaX-II Liquid Xenon Detector

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arxiv 1906.11457 v1 pith:ISJHARSA submitted 2019-06-27 hep-ex nucl-exphysics.ins-det

Searching for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay of ¹³⁶Xe with PandaX-II Liquid Xenon Detector

classification hep-ex nucl-exphysics.ins-det
keywords xenonbetadecaypandax-iinldbdcdotdoubledual-phase
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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$\cdot$yr, or equivalently 22.2 kg$\cdot$yr of $^{136}$Xe exposure. At the region around $^{136}$Xe 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 2.4 $ \times 10^{23} $ yr at the 90% confidence level, which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass $m_{\beta \beta} < (1.3 - 3.5)$ eV. This is the first NLDBD result reported from a dual-phase xenon experiment.

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