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 Decay with Implications for Fundamental Physics and Geochronology

Stukel, M.; Hariasz, L.; Di Stefano, P. C. F.; Rasco, B. C.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; Brewer, N. T.; Stracener, D. W.; Liu, Y.; Gai, Z.; Rouleau, C.; Carter, J.; Kostensalo, J.; Suhonen, J.; Davis, H.; Lukosi, E. D.; Goetz, K. C.; Grzywacz, R. K.; Mancuso, M.; Petricca, F.; Fijałkowska, A.; Wolińska-Cichocka, M.; Ninkovic, J.; Lechner, P.; Ickert, R. B.; Morgan, L. E.; Renne, P. R.; Yavin, I.; ,

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.131.052503

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“…There are only six, known, long-lived (over a billion years) nuclides that undergo an electron capture (EC) decay, namely 40 K (1.29×10 12 yrs [7,8]), 50 V (2.2×10 17 yrs [9,10]), 138 La (1.6×10 11 yrs [11]), 123 Te (>10 16 -10 19 [12,13]), 180 Ta (>2.0×10 17 yrs [14,15]), and 176 Lu (>10 13 -10 14 yrs [16]), three of them have never been detected. The goal of the LUCE experiment (LUtetium sCintillation Experiment) is to measure the partial half-life of 176 Lu with a milli-Kelvin scintillating calorimeter in an ultralow-background facility.…”

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LUCE: A milli-Kelvin calorimeter experiment to study the electron capture of 176Lu

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The LUCE (LUtetium sCintillation Experiment) project will search for the 176 Lu electron based on a milli-Kelvin calorimetric approach. This decay is of special interest in the field of nuclear structure, with implications for the s-process and for a better comprehension of the nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) and two-neutrino double beta decay (2νββ). Possible impacts also include the development of a new class of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) and spin-dependent (independent) dark matter detectors. We report on the current status and design of a novel detector cryogenic-module for the measurement of the electron capture and detail a future measurement plan.

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