Search for double-beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe to excited states of ¹³⁶Ba with the KamLAND-Zen experiment

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• 作者：K. Asakura^a ; A. Gando^a ; ^{azusa@awa.tohoku.ac.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Y. Gando^a ; T. Hachiya^a ; S. Hayashida^a ; H. Ikeda^a ; K. Inoue^a ; ^b ; K. Ishidoshiro^a ; T. Ishikawa^a ; S. Ishio^a ; M. Koga^a ; ^b ; S. Matsuda^a ; T. Mitsui^a ; D. Motoki^a ; K. Nakamura^a ; ^b ; S. Obara^a ; M. Otani^a ; ¹ ; T. Oura^a ; I. Shimizu^a ; Y. Shirahata^a ; J. Shirai^a ; A. Suzuki^a ; H. Tachibana^a ; K. Tamae^a ; K. Ueshima^a ; H. Watanabe^a ; B.D. Xu^a ; ² ; H. Yoshida^a ; ³ ; A. Kozlov^b ; Y. Takemoto^b ; S. Yoshida^c ; K. Fushimi^d ; T.I. Banks^e ; B.E. Berger^e ; ^b ; B.K. Fujikawa^e ; ^b ; T. O'Donnell^e ; L.A. Winslow^f ; Y. Efremenko^g ; ^h ; ^b ; H.J. Karwowskiⁱ ; D.M. Markoffⁱ ; W. Tornowⁱ ; ^b ; J.A. Detwiler^j ; ^b ; S. Enomoto^j ; ^b ; M.P. Decowski^k ; ^b
• 关键词：Double-beta decay ; 136Xe ; Excited state
• 刊名：Nuclear Physics A
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：946
• 期：Complete
• 页码：171-181
• 全文大小：618 K

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A search for double-beta decays of ¹³⁶Xe to excited states of ¹³⁶Ba has been performed with the first phase data set of the KamLAND-Zen experiment. 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These results are compared to recent theoretical predictions.