First Measurement of gAeff via Low Threshold, High Resolution Spectral Measurements Using In-115 Bolometer

ORAL

Abstract

0νββ is a nuclear process under investigation by numerous experiments, which if detected would demonstrate that neutrinos are Majorana particles. 0νββ samples a wide range of intermediate forbidden nuclear transitions, which are governed by the quenched axial vector coupling constant (gAeff), the uncertainty of which plays a pivotal role in the uncertainty of the nuclear matrix elements. The recently reexamined role of gAeff in these transitions has prompted measurements of gAeff in highly forbidden decays via beta spectrum shape investigation with high resolution, low threshold bolometers. In this talk, we present measurements performed on a LiInSe2 bolometer, with a 4-fold forbidden beta decay of In-115. This decay is sensitive to similar nuclear effects as 0νββ. We extracted the value of gAeff through the use of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo taking into account experimentally determined background levels. We will discuss the obtained results along with possible impacts this study has for future 0νββ measurements.

Presenters

  • Alexander F Leder

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Alexander F Leder

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley

  • Jonathan Ouellet

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Fedor Danevich

    Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv

  • Pierre de Marcillac

    Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere (CSNSM)

  • Andrea Giuliani

    Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere (CSNSM)

  • Joel Kostensalo

    Department of Physics, Jyvaskyla

  • Emiliano Olivieri

    Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere (CSNSM)

  • Claudia Nones

    Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)

  • Valentina Novati

    Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere (CSNSM)

  • Denys Poda

    Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere (CSNSM), Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv

  • Jouni Suhonen

    Department of Physics, Jyvaskyla

  • Vladimir Tretyak

    Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv

  • Lindley A Winslow

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Anastasiia Zolotarova

    Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)