Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset

We present a search for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of ^{136}Xe using the full KamLAND-Zen 800 dataset with 745 kg of enriched xenon, corresponding to an exposure of 2.1 ton yr of ^{136}Xe. This updated search benefits from a more than twofold increase in exposure, recovery of photo-sensor gain, and reduced background from muon-induced spallation of xenon. Combining with the search in the previous KamLAND-Zen phase, we obtain a lower limit for the 0νββ decay halflife of T_{1/2}^{0ν}>3.8×10^{26} yr at 90% CL, a factor of 1.7 improvement over the previous limit. The corresponding upper limits on the effective Majorana neutrino mass are in the range 28-122 meV using phenomenological nuclear matrix element calculations.

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-10-24
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https://doi.org/10.1103/jkf6-48j8
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Neutrino Physics Research
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Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset

Karl J. Friston
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Physical Review Letters
Neutrino Physics Research
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Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset

Karl J. Friston
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Abstract

We present a search for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of ^{136}Xe using the full KamLAND-Zen 800 dataset with 745 kg of enriched xenon, corresponding to an exposure of 2.1 ton yr of ^{136}Xe. This updated search benefits from a more than twofold increase in exposure, recovery of photo-sensor gain, and reduced background from muon-induced spallation of xenon. Combining with the search in the previous KamLAND-Zen phase, we obtain a lower limit for the 0νββ decay halflife of T_{1/2}^{0ν}>3.8×10^{26} yr at 90% CL, a factor of 1.7 improvement over the previous limit. The corresponding upper limits on the effective Majorana neutrino mass are in the range 28-122 meV using phenomenological nuclear matrix element calculations.

Physical Review LettersVol. 135(26)
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US), Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (JP), University of Washington (US), Tohoku University (JP), University of California San Diego (US), Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (US), National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US), Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (JP), University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US), Virginia Tech (US), University of Delaware (US), University of Amsterdam (NL), Tokushima University (JP), The University of Osaka (JP)
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