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Double-beta decay of 130Te to the first 0 + excited state of 130Xe with CUORE-0
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Alduino, C; Alfonso, K; Artusa, DR; Avignone III, FT; Azzolini, O; Banks, TI; Bari, G; Beeman, JW; Bellini, F; Bersani, A; Biassoni, M; Brofferio, C; Bucci, C; Camacho, A; Caminata, A; Canonica, L; Cao, XG; Capelli, S; Cappelli, L; Carbone, L; Cardani, L; Carniti, P; Casali, N; Cassina, L; Chiesa, D; Chott, N; Clemenza, M; Copello, S; Cosmelli, C; Cremonesi, O; Creswick, RJ; Cushman, JS; D’Addabbo, A; Dafinei, I; Davis, CJ; Dell’Oro, S; Deninno, MM; Domizio, SD; Vacri, MLD; Drobizhev, A; Fang, DQ; Faverzani, M; Feintzeig, J; Fernandes, G; Ferri, E; Ferroni, F; Fiorini, E; Franceschi, MA; Freedman, SJ; Fujikawa, BK; Giachero, A; Gironi, L; Giuliani, A; Gladstone, L; Gorla, P; Gotti, C; Gutierrez, TD; Haller, EE; Han, K; Hansen, E; Heeger, KM; Hennings-Yeomans, R; Hickerson, KP; Huang, HZ; Kadel, R; Keppel, G; Kolomensky, YG; Leder, A; Ligi, C; Lim, KE; Liu, X; Ma, YG; Maino, M; Marini, L; Martinez, M; Maruyama, RH; Mei, Y; Moggi, N; Morganti, S; Mosteiro, PJ; Napolitano, T; Nones, C; Norman, EB; Nucciotti, A; O’Donnell, T; Orio, F; Ouellet, JL; Pagliarone, CE; Pallavicini, M; Palmieri, V; Pattavina, L; Pavan, M; Pessina, G; Pettinacci, V; Piperno, G; Pira, C; Pirro, S; Pozzi, S; Previtali, E; Rosenfeld, C
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European Physical Journal C. 79(9)
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We report on a search for double beta decay of 130Te to the first 0 + excited state of 130Xe using a 9.8kg·yr exposure of 130Te collected with the CUORE-0 experiment. In this work we exploit different topologies of coincident events to search for both the neutrinoless and two-neutrino double beta decay modes. We find no evidence for either mode and place lower bounds on the half-lives: T01+0ν>7.9·1023yr and T01+2ν>2.4·1023yr (90%CL). Combining our results with those obtained by the CUORICINO experiment, we achieve the most stringent constraints available for these processes: T01+0ν>1.4·1024yr and T01+2ν>2.5·1023yr (90%CL).