Neutrinoless double-beta decay: status and prospects

MJ Dolinski, AWP Poon… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a forbidden, lepton-number-violating nuclear transition
whose observation would have fundamental implications for neutrino physics, theories …

AMoRE: A search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 100Mo using low-temperature molybdenum-containing crystal detectors

MH Lee - Journal of instrumentation, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The AMoRE is an experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 100 Mo in
molybdate crystal scintillators using a cryogenic detection technique. The crystals are …

Luminescence and scintillation properties of Ce3+-doped P2O5-Li2CO3-GdBr3-Al2O3 glasses

AV Ntarisa, S Saha, P Aryal, HJ Kim, A Khan… - Journal of Non …, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of glass samples were fabricated with the composition of (65-x) P 2 O 5: 20Li 2 CO
3: 10GdBr 3: 5Al 2 O 3: xCeBr 3 (where, x= 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4). The powder X-ray diffraction …

Selection and purification of Li2CO3 precursor for bolometric double beta decay experiments

KA Shin, C Byeon, JS Choe, O Gileva, Y Kim… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This paper describes the preparation of radiopure lithium carbonate powder for the needs of
low-background research, in particular, AMoRE-II, the second phase of a search for the …

Luminescence and Scintillation Properties of Dy3+ doped Li6Y (BO3) 3 crystal

S Saha, HJ Kim, A Khan, DJ Daniel, R Absar… - Optical Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
The orthoborate crystals with a wide optical bandgap allow different rare earth ions as an
activator (Ce 3+, Dy 3+, Eu 3+, etc.) to provide efficient luminescence. In the present study, Li …

Radioassay of the materials for AMoRE-II experiment

A Agrawal, VV Alenkov, P Aryal, H Bae, J Beyer… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The AMoRE-II experiment will search for the 0 νββ decay of 100Mo nuclei using molybdate
crystal scintillators, operating at milli-Kelvin (mK) temperatures, with a total of 80 kg of …

Enriched Crystal Scintillators for 2β Experiments

OG Polischuk - Physics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The investigation of 2β decay is an important issue in modern physics, allowing the test of
the Standard Model of elementary particles and the study of the nature and properties of …

Luminescence and scintillation properties of Czochralski grown Pr3+ doped Li6Y (BO3) 3 single crystal

S Saha, A Khan, HJ Kim, PQ Vuong, IR Pandey… - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Li 6 Y (BO 3) 3: Pr 3+, an alkali orthoborate compound have been synthesized
as polycrystalline powders with different doping concentration of Pr 3+ rare-earth as an …

Measurement of the Background Activities of a 100Mo-enriched Powder Sample for an AMoRE Crystal Material by Using a Single High-Purity Germanium Detector

S Park, I Hahn, WG Kang, G Kim, E Lee… - Journal of the Korean …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE) searches
for neutrino-less double-beta (0 νββ) decay of 100 Mo in enriched molybdate crystals. The …

Measurement of the background activities of a 100Mo-enriched powder sample for an AMoRE crystal material by using fourteen high-purity germanium detectors

SY Park, KI Hahn, WG Kang, V Kazalov, GW Kim… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE) in its
second phase will search for neutrinoless double-beta (0 ν β β) decay of 100 Mo in 200 kg of …