{"paper":{"title":"Final results of the Aurora experiment to study 2$\\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd with enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"nucl-ex","authors_text":"A. Incicchitti, A.S. Barabash, D.M. Chernyak, D.V. Kasperovych, D.V. Poda, F.A. Danevich, F. Cappella, M. Laubenstein, O.G. Polischuk, P. Belli, R. Bernabei, R. Cerulli, S. d'Angelo, S.I. Konovalov, V. Caracciolo, V.I. Tretyak, V.I. Umatov, V.N. Shlegel, V.V. Kobychev, Ya.V. Vasiliev","submitted_at":"2018-11-15T14:35:37Z","abstract_excerpt":"The double-beta decay of $^{116}$Cd has been investigated with the help of radiopure enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators (mass of 1.162 kg) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory. The half-life of $^{116}$Cd relatively to the $2\\nu2\\beta$ decay to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as $T_{1/2}=(2.63^{+0.11}_{-0.12})\\times10^{19}$ yr. A new improved limit on the 0$\\nu$2$\\beta$ decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn was set as $T_{1/2}\\geq 2.2 \\times 10^{23}$ yr at 90\\% C.L., which is the most stringent known restriction "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1811.06398","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}