{
  "id": "1210.7432",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-10-28T10:06:43.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-10-28T10:06:43.000Z",
  "title": "Status and prospects of searches for neutrinoless double beta decay",
  "authors": [
    "Bernhard Schwingenheuer"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Annalen der Physik (Berlin)",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ex",
    "nucl-ex"
  ],
  "abstract": "The simultaneous beta decay of two neutrons in a nucleus without the emission of neutrinos (called neutrinoless double beta decay) is a lepton number violating process which is not allowed in the Standard Model of particle physics. More than a dozen experiments using different candidate isotopes and a variety of detection techniques are searching for this decay. Some (EXO-200, Kamland-Zen, GERDA) started to take data recently. EXO and Kamland-Zen have reported first limits of the half life $T_{1/2}^{0\\nu}$ for $^{136}$Xe. After a decade of little progress in this field, many new results will soon scrutinize the claim from part of the Heidelberg-Moscow collaboration to have observed this decay. The sensitivities of the different proposals are reviewed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-10-28T10:06:43.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutrinoless double beta decay",
      "lepton number violating process",
      "detection techniques",
      "standard model",
      "particle physics"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1002/andp.201200222",
      "journal": "Annalen der Physik",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 525,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": 269
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1193932,
      "adsabs": "2013AnP...525..269S"
    }
  }
}