| Title: | Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe |
Authors: | Agostini, F.
Maouloud, S. E. M. Ahmed
Althueser, L.
Amaro, F. D.
Antunovic, B.
Aprile, E.
Baudis, L.
Baur, D.
Biondi, Y.
Bismark, A.
Breur, P.A.
Brown, A
Bruno, G.
Budnik, R.
Capelli, C.
Cardoso, J.
Cichon, D.
Clark, M.
Colijn, A P
Cuenca-García, J. J.
Cussonneau, J. P.
Decowski, M. P.
Depoian, A.
Dierle, J.
Gangi, P. Di
Giovanni, A. Di
Diglio, S.
Santos, J. M. F. dos
Drexlin, G.
Eitel, K.
Engel, R.
Ferella, A. D.
Fischer, H.
Galloway, M.
Gao, F.
Girard, F.
Glück, F.
Grandi, L.
Größle, R.
Gumbsheimer, R.
Hansmann-Menzemer, S.
Jörg, F.
Khundzakishvili, G.
Kopec, A.
Kuger, F.
Krauss, L.M.
Landsman, H.
Lang, R. F.
Lindemann, S.
Lindner, M.
Lopes, J. A. M.
Villalpando, A. Loya
Macolino, C.
Manfredini, A.
Undagoitia, T. Marrodán
Masbou, J.
Masson, E.
Meinhardt, P.
Milutinovic, S.
Molinario, A.
Monteiro, C. M. B.
Murra, M.
Oberlack, U. G.
Pandurovic, M.
Peres, R.
Pienaar, J.
Pierre, M.
Pizzella, V
Qin, J.
García, D. Ramírez
Reichard, S.
Rupp, N.
Sanchez-Lucas, P.
Sartorelli, G.
Schulte, D.
Schumann, M.
Lavina, L. Scotto
Selvi, M.
Silva, M.
Simgen, H.
Steidl, M.
Terliuk, A.
Therreau, C.
Thers, D.
Thieme, K.
Trotta, R.
Tunnell, C.D.
Valerius, K.
Volta, G.
Vorkapic, D.
Weinheimer, C.
Wittweg, C.
Wolf, J.
Zopounidis, J. P.
Zuber, K. |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
metadata.degois.publication.title: | European Physical Journal C |
metadata.degois.publication.volume: | 80 |
metadata.degois.publication.issue: | 9 |
Abstract: | The DARWIN observatory is a proposed nextgeneration
experiment to search for particle dark matter and
for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe.Out of its 50 t
total natural xenon inventory, 40 t will be the active target of
a time projection chamber which thus contains about 3.6 t of
136Xe. Here, we show that its projected half-life sensitivity
is 2.4 × 1027 years, using a fiducial volume of 5 t of natural
xenon and 10 years of operation with a background rate of
less than 0.2 events/(t · year) in the energy region of interest.
This sensitivity is based on a detailed Monte Carlo simulation
study of the background and event topologies in the
large, homogeneous target. DARWIN will be comparable in
its science reach to dedicated double beta decay experiments
using xenon enriched in 136Xe. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106045 |
ISSN: | 1434-6044
1434-6052 |
DOI: | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8196-z |
Rights: | openAccess |
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