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Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200
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Ackerman, N.; Aharmim, B.; Auger, M.; Auty, D. J.; Barbeau, P. S.; Barry, K.; Bartoszek, L.; Beauchamp, E.; Belov, V.; Benitez-Medina, C.; Breidenbach, M.; Burenkov, A.; Cleveland, B.; Conley, R.; Conti, E.; Cook, J.; Cook, S.; Coppens, A.; Counts, I.; Craddock, W.; Daniels, T.; Danilov, M. V.; Davis, C. G.; Davis, J.; deVoe, R.; Djurcic, Z.; Dobi, A.; Dolgolenko, A. G.; Dolinski, M. J.; Donato, K.; Fairbank Jr., W.; Farine, J.; Fierlinger, P.; Franco, D.; Freytag, D.; Giroux, G.; Gornea, R.; Graham, K.; Gratta, G.; Green, M. P.; Hagemann, C.; Hall, C.; Hall, K.; Haller, G.; Hargrove, C.; Herbst, R.; Herrin, S.; Hodgson, J.; Hughes, M.; Johnson, A.; Karelin, A.; Kaufman, L. J.; Koffas, T.; Kuchenkov, A.; Kumar, A.; Kumar, K. S.; Leonard, D. S.; Leonard, F.; LePort, F.; Mackay, D.; MacLellan, R.; Marino, M.; Martin, Y.; Mong, B.; Diez, M. Montero; Morgan, P.; Muller, A. R.; Neilson, R.; Nelson, R.; Odian, A.; O'Sullivan, K.; Ouellet, C.; Piepke, A.; Pocar, A.; Prescott, C. Y.; Pushkin, K.; Rivas, A.; Rollin, E.; Rowson, P. C.; Russell, J. J.; Sabourov, A.; Sinclair, D.; Skarpaas, K.; Slutsky, S.; Stekhanov, V.; Strickland, V.; Swift, M.; Tosi, D.; Twelker, K.; Vogel, P.; Vuilleumier, J. -L.; Vuilleumier, J. -M.; Waite, A.; Waldman, S.; Walton, T.; Wamba, K.; Weber, M.; Wichoski, U.; Wodin, J.; Wright, J. D.; Yang, L.; Yen, Y. -R.; Zeldovich, O. Ya.
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We report the observation of two-neutrino double-beta decay in Xe-136 with T_1/2 = 2.11 +- 0.04 (stat.) +- 0.21 (sys.) x 10^21 yr. This second order process, predicted by the Standard Model, has been observed for several nuclei but not for Xe-136. The observed decay rate provides new input to matrix element calculations and to the search for the more interesting neutrino-less double-beta decay, the most sensitive probe for the existence of Majorana particles and the measurement of the neutrino mass scale.