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arxiv: 2205.12809 · v2 · pith:6GILBJQ4new · submitted 2022-05-25 · ⚛️ nucl-ex · hep-ex

Measurement of Double Beta Decay Half-life of ¹³⁶Xe with the PandaX-4T Detector

PandaX Collaboration: Lin Si , Zhaokan Cheng , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Zihao Bo , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Chen Cheng
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Yunshan Cheng Xiangyi Cui Yingjie Fan Deqing Fang Changbo Fu Mengting Fu Lisheng Geng Karl Giboni Linhui Gu Xuyuan Guo Ke Han Changda He Jinrong He Di Huang Yanlin Huang Zhou Huang Ruquan Hou Xiangdong Ji Yonglin Ju Chenxiang Li Jiafu Li Mingchuan Li Shu Li Shuaijie Li Qing Lin Jianglai Liu Xiaoying Lu Lingyin Luo Yunyang Luo Wenbo Ma Yugang Ma Yajun Mao Yue Meng Nasir Shaheed Xiaofeng Shang Xuyang Ning Ningchun Qi Zhicheng Qian Xiangxiang Ren Changsong Shang Guofang Shen Wenliang Sun Andi Tan Yi Tao Anqing Wang Meng Wang Qiuhong Wang Shaobo Wang Siguang Wang Wei Wang Xiuli Wang Zhou Wang Yuehuan Wei Mengmeng Wu Weihao Wu Jingkai Xia Mengjiao Xiao Xiang Xiao Pengwei Xie Binbin Yan Xiyu Yan Jijun Yang Yong Yang Chunxu Yu Jumin Yuan Ying Yuan Zhe Yuan Dan Zhang Minzhen Zhang Peng Zhang Shibo Zhang Shu Zhang Tao Zhang Li Zhao Qibin Zheng Jifang Zhou Ning Zhou Xiaopeng Zhou Yong Zhou
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Precise measurement of two-neutrino double beta decay (DBD) half-life is an important step for the searches of Majorana neutrinos with neutrinoless double beta decay. We report the measurement of DBD half-life of $^{136}$Xe using the PandaX-4T dual-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with 3.7-tonne natural xenon and the first 94.9-day physics data release. The background model in the fiducial volume is well constrained in situ by events in the outer active region. With a $^{136}$Xe exposure of 15.5 kg-year, we establish the half-life as $2.27 \pm 0.03 (stat.)\pm 0.10 (syst.)\times 10^{21}$ years. This is the first DBD half-life measurement with natural xenon and demonstrates the physics capability of a large-scale liquid xenon TPC in the field of rare event searches.

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