Abstract
The NEMO 3 detector, which has been operating in the Fréjus underground laboratory since February 2003, is devoted to the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (). The half-lives of the two neutrino double-beta decay () have been measured for and . After 389 effective days of data collection from February 2003 until September 2004 (phase I), no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay was found from of and of . The corresponding limits are for and for (90% C.L.). Depending on the nuclear matrix element calculation, the limits for the effective Majorana neutrino mass are for and for .
- Received 19 July 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.182302
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