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Limits on the Majorana neutrino mass in the 0.1 eV range

L. Baudis, A. Dietz, G. Heusser, H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, I. V. Krivosheina, St. Kolb, B. Majorovits, V. F. Melnikov, H. Paes, F. Schwamm, H. Strecker, V. Alexeev, A. Balysh, A. Bakalyarov, S. T. Belyaev, V. I. Lebedev, S. Zhukov

hep-exarXiv:hep-ex/9902014

Abstract

The Heidelberg-Moscow experiment gives the most stringent limit on the Majorana neutrino mass. After 24 kg yr of data with pulse shape measurements, we set a lower limit on the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge of T1/2 > 5.7 * 1025 yr at 90% C.L., thus excluding an effective Majorana neutrino mass greater than 0.2 eV. This allows to set strong constraints on degenerate neutrino mass models.

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