Using 9.4 g of
96Zr isotope and 1221 days of data from the NEMO-3 detector corresponding to 0.031 kg y, the obtained
2
ν
β
β
decay half-life measurement is
T
1
/
2
2
ν
=
2.35
±
0.14
(
stat
)
±
0.16
...(
syst
)
×
10
19
yr
. Different characteristics of the final state electrons have been studied, such as the energy sum, individual electron energy, and angular distribution. The 2
ν nuclear matrix element is extracted using the measured
2
ν
β
β
half-life and is
M
2
ν
=
0.049
±
0.002
. Constraints on
0
ν
β
β
decay have also been set.
Spectral modeling of scintillator for the NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO detectors Argyriades, J.; Arnold, R.; Augier, C. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
2011, 2011-1-00, 20110101, 2011-01-01, Letnik:
625, Številka:
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We have constructed a GEANT4-based detailed software model of photon transport in plastic scintillator blocks and have used it to study the NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO calorimeters employed in experiments ...designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. We compare our simulations to measurements using conversion electrons from a calibration source of
207Bi and show that the agreement is improved if wavelength-dependent properties of the calorimeter are taken into account. In this article, we briefly describe our modeling approach and results of our studies.
We measure the mass of the top quark in lepton + jets final states using the full sample of p (p) over bar collision data collected by the D0 experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at ...root s = 1.96 TeV, corresponding to 9.7 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. We use a matrix element technique that calculates the probabilities for each event to result from t (t) over bar production or background. The overall jet energy scale is constrained in situ by the mass of theW boson. We measure m(t) = 174.98 +/- 0.76 GeV. This constitutes the most precise single measurement of the top-quark mass.
We present a study of the inclusive production of the X(4140) state with the decay to the J/psi phi final state in hadronic collisions. Based on 10.4 fb(-1) of p (p) over bar collision data collected ...by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, we report the first evidence for the prompt production of an X(4140) state and find the fraction of X(4140) events originating from b hadrons to be f(b) = 0.39 +/- 0.07 (stat) +/- 0.10 (syst). The ratio of the nonprompt X(4140) production rate to the B-s(0) yield in the same channel is R = 0.19 +/- 0.05 (stat) +/- 0.07 (syst). The values of the mass M = 4152.5 +/- 1.7 (stat)(-5.4)(+/- 6.2)(syst) MeV and width Gamma = 16.3 +/- 5.6 (stat) +/- 11.4 (syst) MeV are consistent with previous measurements.