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arxiv: 1104.3716 · v3 · submitted 2011-04-19 · ⚛️ nucl-ex · hep-ex

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Measurement of the Double Beta Decay Half-life of 130Te with the NEMO-3 Detector

R. Arnold (1) , C. Augier (2) , J. Baker (3 , 23) , A.S. Barabash (4) , A. Basharina-Freshville (5) , S. Blondel (2) , M. Bongrand (2)
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G. Broudin-Bay (6 7) V. Brudanin (8) A.J. Caffrey (3) A. Chapon (9) E. Chauveau (10) D. Durand (9) V. Egorov (8) R. Flack (5) X. Garrido (2) J. Grozier (5) B. Guillon (9) Ph. Hubert (6 C.M. Jackson (10) S. Jullian (2) M. Kauer (5) A. Klimenko (8) O. Kochetov (8) S.I. Konovalov (4) V. Kovalenko (6 7 8) D. Lalanne (2) T. Lamhamdi (11) K. Lang (12) Z. Liptak (12) G. Lutter (6 F. Mamedov (13) Ch. Marquet (6 J. Martin-Albo (14) F. Mauger (9) J. Mott (5) A. Nachab (6 I. Nemchenok (8) C.H. Nguyen (6 15) F. Nova (12) P. Novella (14) H. Ohsumi (16) R.B. Pahlka (12) F. Perrot (6 F. Piquemal (6 J.L. Reyss (17) B. Richards (5) J.S. Ricol (6 R. Saakyan (5) X. Sarazin (2) Yu. Shitov (8 18) L. Simard (2) F. \v{S}imkovic (19) A. Smolnikov (8) S. S\"oldner-Rembold (10) I. \v{S}tekl (13) J. Suhonen (20) C.S. Sutton (21) G. Szklarz (2) J. Thomas (5) V. Timkin (8) S. Torre (5) V.I. Tretyak (1 V. Umatov (4) L. V\'ala (13) I. Vanyushin (4) V. Vasiliev (5) V. Vorobel (22) T. Vylov (8 A. Zukauskas (22) ((1) IPHC-DRS Universit\'e de Strasbourg CNRS/IN2P3 France (2) LAL Universit\'e Paris-Sud 11 (3) INL Idaho National Laboratory Idaho Falls (4) ITEP Institute of Theoretical Experimental Physics Moscow Russia (5) University College London London UK (6) Universit\'e Bordeaux CENBG Gradignan (7) CNRS/IN2P3 Centre d\' Etudes Nucl\'eaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (8) JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna (9) LPC ENSICAEN Universit\'e de Caen (10) The University of Manchester Manchester UK (11) USMBA Universit\'e Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Fes Morocco (12) University of Texas at Austin (13) IEAP Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Republic (14) IFIC CSIC - Universitat de Valencia Valencia Spain (15) Hanoi University of Science Hanoi Vietnam (16) Saga University Japan (17) LSCE CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette (18) Imperial College London (19) FMFI Commenius University Bratislava Slovakia (20) Jyv\"askyl\"a University Finland (21) MHC Mount Holyoke College South Hadley MA (22) Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics Physics Prague (23) Deceased) (The NEMO-3 Collaboration)
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This Letter reports results from the NEMO-3 experiment based on an exposure of 1275 days with 661g of 130Te in the form of enriched and natural tellurium foils. The double beta decay rate of 130Te is found to be greater than zero with a significance of 7.7 standard deviations and the half-life is measured to be T1/2 = (7.0 +/- 0.9(stat) +/- 1.1(syst)) x 10^{20} yr. This represents the most precise measurement of this half-life yet published and the first real-time observation of this decay.

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