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Data analysis of Q-value measurements for double-electron capture with SHIPTRAP

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A measurement campaign has been carried out for the search for resonantly enhanced neutrinoless double-electron-capture transitions by the determination of the Q εε -values with the SHIPTRAP Penning-trap mass spectrometer. The Q εε -values have been determined by measuring the cyclotron-frequency ratios of the mother and daughter nuclides of the transitions. This article describes the experimental approach and the data analysis by the example of neutrinoless double-electron capture in 152Gd. Various effects as, e.g., temporal fluctuations and spatial inhomogeneity of the magnetic field, or the variation of the ion number in the trap were found not to affect the frequency ratio on the 1 ppb-level, which is the present statistical uncertainty.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    Christian Roux, Klaus Blaum, Sergey Eliseev & Mikhail Goncharov

  2. Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Christian Roux & Mikhail Goncharov

  3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany

    Michael Block, Frank Herfurth & Enrique Minaya Ramirez

  4. Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Felix-Hausdorff-Straße 6, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    Christian Droese & Lutz Schweikhard

  5. Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Enrique Minaya Ramirez

  6. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Orlova Roscha, 188300, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Dmitry Alexandrovich Nesterenko & Yuri Nikolaevich Novikov

  7. Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, Ulyanovskaya 3, 198504, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Dmitry Alexandrovich Nesterenko & Yuri Nikolaevich Novikov

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This article comprises parts of the Ph.D. thesis of C. Roux.

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Roux, C., Blaum, K., Block, M. et al. Data analysis of Q-value measurements for double-electron capture with SHIPTRAP. Eur. Phys. J. D 67, 146 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40110-x

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