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Nd-150 isotope, DCBA experiment

Kurov E. A.

Memoirs of the Faculty of Physics 2016. N 2.

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The DCBA (Drift Chamber Beta-ray Analyzer) experiment is a project aimed at discovering of neutrinoless double beta decay in isotopes of Nd-150 and Se-82; that utilizes a track chamber with a Superconducting Solenoid Magnet (SCSM). Further search for $0\nu\beta\beta$ with increasing half-life ranging to the order of $10^{26}$~s is possible by means of the MTD (Magnetic Tracking Detector) project, which is a follow-up prototype based upon the DCBA experiment. Presently the development of the MTD project is halted due to the technical difficulty of obtaining Nd-150 of suf-ficient enrichment factor.

Received: 2016 March 30
Approved: 2016 April 15
PACS:
23.40.-s β decay; double β decay; electron and muon capture
Authors
Kurov E. A.
Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. 1(2), Leninskie gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
Issue 2, 2016

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