double beta decay

If neutrinoless double beta decay occurs, these factors influence its rate.

No neutrinoless double beta decays have been observed during about 5 years of data taking.

Calcium-48 is the lightest nuclide to undergo double beta decay.

This experiment is currently the most sensitive double beta decay experiment.

Since then many counter experiments have been conducted, which observed ordinary double beta decay in a number of other isotopes.

It also releases more energy (4.27 MeV) than any other double beta decay candidate.

Thus, the experimental detection of double electron capture is more difficult than that for double beta decay.

Pt and Pt have double beta decay paths.

The idea of double beta decay was first proposed by Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1935.

Zr can undergo double beta decay (not observed experimentally) with a half-life of more than 1.10x10 years.

This would make SNO++ the largest experiment to study neutrinoless double beta decay.

These events could include dark matter, low energy solar neutrinos, double beta decay or rare radioactive decay.

The report dealt with double beta decay, a process widely studied because of the light it may shed on current theories of nuclear physics.

The phenomenon being studied by physicists at the University of California, Irvine, is called double beta decay.

Double beta decay would occur in seemingly stable nuclei put together in a slightly unstable configuration.

A tracking detector on each side of the foil detects electrons and positrons from the double beta decay.

Despite significant progress in the experimental techniques in 1960-70s, double beta decay had not been observed until 1980s in laboratory setting.

Measurements of double beta decay in germanium indicate that neutrinos can have a mass no greater than 1.6 electron volts.

The rate for double beta decay is extremely sensitive to the mass of the neutrino and would provide an accurate method for measuring it.

A sub-group of the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment claimed first evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay.

Finally, exceedingly small amounts of plutonium-238, attributed to the extremely rare double beta decay of uranium-238, have been found in natural uranium samples.

These properties make it an interesting probe of nuclear structure models and a promising candidate in the ongoing search for neutrinoless double beta decay.

The scientists analyzed the sample for signs of the rare form of radioactive decay known as double beta decay.

In double beta decay, two neutrons decay simultaneously to produce a daughter nucleus that is heavier than the parent.

In 2009, the NEMO-3 experiment therefore reported that the half life for neutrinoless double beta decay of molybdenum-100 is greater than 10 years.