The Milano experiment on double beta decay of 136Xe Export

@article{citeulike:3752884, abstract = {An experiment on double beta decay of 136Xe has been performed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. The detector was a multicell proportional counter, built from selected low background materials, which was filled alternatively with natural xenon, enriched xenon to 64\% in the 136Xe isotope, and natural xenon cleaned by ultracentrifugation, and heavily shielded against environmental radioactivity. After 6000 hours of operation the half-lifetime for the neutrinoless decay mode turns out to be greater than 2*1022 y at 90\% CL. A limit of 6*1019 y, also at 90\% CL, is reported for the 2 nu decay mode.}, author = {Bellotti, E. and Cremonesi, O. and Fiorini, E. and Gervasio, G. and Ragazzi, S. and Rossi, L. and Szarka, J. and Sverzellati, P. P. and Tabarelli, T. and Zanotti, L.}, citeulike-article-id = {3752884}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/S/025}, doi = {10.1088/0954-3899/17/S/025}, journal = {Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics}, keywords = {bb0nu, xe136}, number = {S}, pages = {S231--S241}, posted-at = {2008-12-06 22:31:01}, priority = {0}, title = {The Milano experiment on double beta decay of 136Xe}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/S/025}, volume = {17}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3752884 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3752884 N2 - An experiment on double beta decay of 136Xe has been performed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. The detector was a multicell proportional counter, built from selected low background materials, which was filled alternatively with natural xenon, enriched xenon to 64% in the 136Xe isotope, and natural xenon cleaned by ultracentrifugation, and heavily shielded against environmental radioactivity. After 6000 hours of operation the half-lifetime for the neutrinoless decay mode turns out to be greater than 2*1022 y at 90% CL. A limit of 6*1019 y, also at 90% CL, is reported for the 2 nu decay mode. IS - S JF - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics EP - S241 TI - The Milano experiment on double beta decay of 136Xe VL - 17 SP - S231 KW - bb0nu KW - xe136 AU - Bellotti, E AU - Cremonesi, O AU - Fiorini, E AU - Gervasio, G AU - Ragazzi, S AU - Rossi, L AU - Szarka, J AU - Sverzellati, PP AU - Tabarelli, T AU - Zanotti, L PY - 1991/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/17/S/025 ER -