The Majorana Demonstrator's Search for Double-Beta Decay of $^{76}$Ge to Excited States of $^{76}$Se

I. J. Arnquist,F. T. Avignone III,A. S. Barabash, C. J. Barton, F. E. Bertrand, E. Blalock, B. Bos, M. Busch, M. Buuck, T. S. Caldwell,Y-D. Chan, C. D. Christofferson,P. -H. Chu,M. L. Clark,C. Cuesta,J. A. Detwiler,A. Drobizhev, T. R. Edwards, D. W. Edwins,Yu. Efremenko,H. Ejiri,S. R. Elliott, T. Gilliss,G. K. Giovanetti,M. P. Green,J. Gruszko,I. S. Guinn,V. E. Guiseppe, C. R. Haufe, R. Henning,D. Hervas Aguilar,E. W. Hoppe, A. Hostiuc,M. F. Kidd,I. Kim,R. T. Kouzes, A. M. Lopez, J. M. López-Castaño,E. L. Martin,R. D. Martin,R. Massarczyk, S. J. Meijer,S. Mertens,J. Myslik,T. K. Oli, G. Othman, L. S. Paudel,W. Pettus,A. W. P. Poon,D. C. Radford, A. L. Reine,K. Rielage,N. W. Ruof, B. Saykı, M. J. Stortini, D. Tedeschi,R. L. Varner,S. Vasilyev,J. F. Wilkerson,C. Wiseman,W. Xu,C. -H. Yu,B. X. Zhu

arxiv(2020)

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The Majorana Demonstrator is a neutrinoless double-beta decay search consisting of a low-background modular array of high-purity germanium detectors, $\sim2/3$ of which are enriched to 88\% in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment is also searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (e.s.) in $^{76}$Se. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three daughter states of $^{76}$Se, with clear event signatures consisting of a $\beta\beta$-decay followed by the prompt emission of one or two $\gamma$-rays. This results with high probability in multi-detector coincidences. The granularity of the Demonstrator detector array enables powerful discrimination of this event signature from backgrounds. Using 41.9~kg-y of isotopic exposure, the Demonstrator has set world leading limits for each e.s.\ decay of $^{76}$Ge, with 90\% CL lower half-life limits in the range of $(0.75-4.0)\times10^{24}$~y. In particular, for the $2\nu$ transition to the first $0^+$ e.s.\ of $^{76}$Se, a lower half-life limit of $7.5\times10^{23}$~y at 90\% CL was achieved.
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