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First Search for Lorentz and CPT Violation in Double Beta Decay with EXO-200

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 نشر من قبل Tessa Johnson
 تاريخ النشر 2016
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A search for Lorentz- and CPT-violating signals in the double beta decay spectrum of $^{136}$Xe has been performed using an exposure of 100 kg$cdot$yr with the EXO-200 detector. No significant evidence of the spectral modification due to isotropic Lorentz-violation was found, and a two-sided limit of $-2.65 times 10^{-5 } ; textrm{GeV} < mathring{a}^{(3)}_{text{of}} < 7.60 times 10^{-6} ; textrm{GeV}$ (90% C.L.) is placed on the relevant coefficient within the Standard-Model Extension (SME). This is the first experimental study of the effect of the SME-defined oscillation-free and momentum-independent neutrino coupling operator on the double beta decay process.



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