Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Investigating the Double Beta Decay of 58Ni

  • Published:
Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics Aims and scope

Abstract

Double beta decay (β + EC, EC/EC) of 58Ni is investigated at France’s Modane Underground Laboratory (4800 m water equivalent) using the OBELIX ultralow-background HPGe detector with a sensitive volume of 600 cm3 and a natural nickel sample of ~68% 58Ni with a mass of ~21.7 kg. After preliminary analysis of the experimental data accumulated over ~144 days, new experimental limits are obtained for the 2νβ+EC decay of 58Ni to the 0+ ground state and the 2 +1 , 811 keV excited state of 58Fe, and for the 2νEC/EC decay of 58Ni to the 2 +1 , 811 keV and 2 +2 , 1675 keV excited states of 58Fe. The limits are T1/2(β+EC,0→0+) > 1.7 × 1022 yr, T1/2(β+EC,0→2 +1 ) > 2.3 × 1022 yr, T1/2(EC/EC,0→2 +1 ) > 3.3 × 1022 yr, and T1/2(EC/EC,0→2 +2 ) > 3.4 × 1022 yr. Experimental limit T1/2(0νEC/EC–res, 1918 keV > 4.1 × 1022 yr is obtained for resonant neutrinoless radiative EC/EC decay with an energy of 1918.3 keV. All limits are at 90% CL.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Haxton, W.C. and Stephenson, G.J., Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys., 1984, vol. 12, p. 409

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. Barabash, A.S., AIP Conf. Proc., 2013, vol. 1572, p. 11.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Meshik, A.P., Hohenberg, C.M., Pravdivtseva, O.V., et al., Phys. Rev. C, 2001, vol. 64, p. 035205.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Arnold, R., Augier, C., Barabash, A.S., et al. (NEMO-3 Collab.), Nucl. Phys. A, 2014, vol. 925, p. 25.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Brudanin, V.B., Egorov, V.G., Hodak, R., et al., J. Instrum., 2017, vol. 12, p. 02004.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Rukhadze, N.I., Brudanin, V.B., Briancon, Ch., Cermák, P., Kochetov, O.I., Mamedov, F., Loaiza, P., Piquemal, F., Rukhadze, E.N., Shitov, Yu.A., Štekl, I., Warot, G., Yakushev, E.A., and Zampaolo, M., Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci.: Phys., 2013, vol. 77, p. 379.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Vasil’ev, S.I., Klimenko, A.A., Osetrov, S.B., Pomanskii, A.A., and Smol’nikov, A.A., JETP Lett., 1993, vol. 57, p. 631.

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. Bellotti, E., Fiorini, E., Liguori, C., et al., Lett. Nuovo Cimento, 1982, vol. 33, p. 273.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Lehnert, B., Degering, D., Frotscher, A., et al., J. Phys. G, 2016, vol. 43, p. 065201.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Tretyak, V.I. and Zdesenko, Yu.G., At. Data Nucl. Data Tables, 1995, vol. 61, p. 43.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Tretyak, V.I. and Zdesenko, Yu.G., At. Data Nucl. Data Tables, 2002, vol. 80, p. 83.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    N. I. Rukhadze, V. B. Brudanin, A. A. Klimenko & Yu. A. Shitov

  2. Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, Modane, 73500, France

    F. Piquemal & G. Warot

  3. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 128 00, Praha 2, Czech Republic

    E. N. Rukhadze & I. Štekl

Authors
  1. N. I. Rukhadze
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. V. B. Brudanin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. A. Klimenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. F. Piquemal
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. E. N. Rukhadze
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Yu. A. Shitov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. I. Štekl
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. G. Warot
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to N. I. Rukhadze.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © N.I. Rukhadze, V.B. Brudanin, A.A. Klimenko, F. Piquemal, E.N. Rukhadze, Yu.A. Shitov, I. Štekl, G. Warot, 2018, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2018, Vol. 82, No. 6.

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rukhadze, N.I., Brudanin, V.B., Klimenko, A.A. et al. Investigating the Double Beta Decay of 58Ni. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 82, 708–711 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873818060242

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873818060242

Search

Navigation