New experimental limits on the Pauli-forbidden transitions in 12C nuclei obtained with 485 days Borexino data
New experimental limits on the Pauli-forbidden transitions in 12C nuclei obtained with 485 days Borexino data
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevc.81.034317
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发表时间:
2010-03-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Romani, A.
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作者:
Bellini, G.;Bonetti, S.;Romani, A.
The Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) has been tested for nucleons (n, p) in C-12 with the Borexino detector. The approach consists of a search for gamma, n, p, and beta(+/-) emitted in a non-Paulian transition of 1P(3/2)-shell nucleons to the filled 1S(1/2) shell in nuclei. Due to the extremely low background and the large mass (278 tons) of the Borexino detector, the following most stringent up-to-date experimental bounds on PEP violating transitions of nucleons have been established: tau(C-12 -> (12)(C) over tilde + gamma) >= 5.0 x 10(31) yr, tau(C-12 -> (11)(B) over tilde + p) >= 8.9 x 10(29) yr, tau(C-12 -> (11)(C) over tilde + n) >= 3.4 x 10(30) yr, tau(C-12 -> (12)(N) over tilde + e(-) (nu) over tilde (e)) >= 3.1 x 10(30) yr, and tau(C-12 -> (12) (B) over tilde + e(+) + nu(e)) >= 2.1 x 10(30) yr, all at 90% C.L. The corresponding upper limits on the relative strengths for the searched non-Paulian electromagnetic, strong and weak transitions have been estimated as delta(2)(gamma)