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First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Authors:H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
Institution:(1) Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 10 39 80, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract:Double beta decay is indispensable to solve the question of the neutrino mass matrix together with ngr oscillation experiments. Recent analysis of the most sensitive experiment since nine years—the HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW experiment in Gran-Sasso—yields a first indication for the neutrinoless decay mode. This result is the first evidence for lepton number violation and proves the neutrino to be a Majorana particle. We give the present status of the analysis in this report. It excludes several of the neutrino mass scenarios allowed from present neutrino oscillation experiments—only degenerate scenarios and those with inverse mass hierarchy survive. This result allows neutrinos to still play an important role as dark matter in the Universe. To improve the accuracy of the present result, considerably enlarged experiments are required, such as GENIUS. A GENIUS Test Facility has been funded and will come into operation by early 2003.
Keywords:neutrino mass and mixing  weak-interaction and lepton (including neutrino) aspects  beta decay  double beta decay  electron and muon capture
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