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Limit on the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of 36 Ar from GERDA Phase I
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Agostini, M; Allardt, M; Bakalyarov, AM; Balata, M; Barabanov, I; Barros, N; Baudis, L; Bauer, C; Bellotti, E; Belogurov, S; Belyaev, ST; Benato, G; Bettini, A; Bezrukov, L; Bode, T; Borowicz, D; Brudanin, V; Brugnera, R; Caldwell, A; Cattadori, C; Chernogorov, A; D’Andrea, V; Demidova, EV; di Vacri, A; Domula, A; Doroshkevich, E; Egorov, V; Falkenstein, R; Fedorova, O; Freund, K; Frodyma, N; Gangapshev, A; Garfagnini, A; Gooch, C; Grabmayr, P; Gurentsov, V; Gusev, K; Hakenmüller, J; Hegai, A; Heisel, M; Hemmer, S; Heusser, G; Hofmann, W; Hult, M; Inzhechik, LV; Csáthy, JJ; Jochum, J; Junker, M; Kazalov, V; Kihm, T; Kirpichnikov, IV; Kirsch, A; Kish, A; Klimenko, A; Kneißl, R; Knöpfle, KT; Kochetov, O; Kornoukhov, VN; Kuzminov, VV; Laubenstein, M; Lazzaro, A; Lebedev, VI; Lehnert, B; Liao, HY; Lindner, M; Lippi, I; Lubashevskiy, A; Lubsandorzhiev, B; Lutter, G; Macolino, C; Majorovits, B; Maneschg, W; Medinaceli, E; Miloradovic, M; Mingazheva, R; Misiaszek, M; Moseev, P; Nemchenok, I; Palioselitis, D; Panas, K; Pandola, L; Pelczar, K; Pullia, A; Riboldi, S; Rumyantseva, N; Sada, C; Salamida, F; Salathe, M; Schmitt, C; Schneider, B; Schönert, S; Schreiner, J; Schütz, AK; Schulz, O; Schwingenheuer, B; Selivanenko, O; Shirchenko, M; Simgen, H; Smolnikov, A; Stanco, L
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European Physical Journal C. 76(12)
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Neutrinoless double electron capture is a process that, if detected, would give evidence of lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. A search for neutrinoless double electron capture of 36Ar has been performed with germanium detectors installed in liquid argon using data from Phase I of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of INFN, Italy. No signal was observed and an experimental lower limit on the half-life of the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of 36Ar was established: T1 / 2> 3.6 × 1021 years at 90% CI.