Constraints on the Decay of ^{180m}Ta.

I J Arnquist,F T Avignone, A S Barabash, C J Barton, K H Bhimani, E Blalock, B Bos, M Busch, M Buuck, T S Caldwell, C D Christofferson,P-H Chu,M L Clark, C Cuesta,J A Detwiler,Yu Efremenko,H Ejiri, S R Elliott, G K Giovanetti, J Goett,M P Green, J Gruszko,I S Guinn,V E Guiseppe, C R Haufe, R Henning,D Hervas Aguilar,E W Hoppe, A Hostiuc, I Kim, R T Kouzes, T E Lannen V,A Li, J M López-Castaño, R Massarczyk, S J Meijer, W Meijer, T K Oli, L S Paudel, W Pettus, A W P Poon,D C Radford, A L Reine, K Rielage, A Rouyer,N W Ruof, D C Schaper, S J Schleich, T A Smith-Gandy, D Tedeschi, J D Thompson, R L Varner, S Vasilyev, S L Watkins, J F Wilkerson, C Wiseman, W Xu,C-H Yu, ,D S M Alves, L Hebenstiel, H Ramani

Physical review letters(2023)

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^{180m}Ta is a rare nuclear isomer whose decay has never been observed. Its remarkably long lifetime surpasses the half-lives of all other known β and electron capture decays due to the large K-spin differences and small energy differences between the isomeric and lower-energy states. Detecting its decay presents a significant experimental challenge but could shed light on neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis mechanisms, the nature of dark matter, and K-spin violation. For this study, we repurposed the Majorana Demonstrator, an experimental search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of ^{76}Ge using an array of high-purity germanium detectors, to search for the decay of ^{180m}Ta. More than 17 kg, the largest amount of tantalum metal ever used for such a search, was installed within the ultralow-background detector array. In this Letter, we present results from the first year of Ta data taking and provide an updated limit for the ^{180m}Ta half-life on the different decay channels. With new limits up to 1.5×10^{19}  yr, we improved existing limits by 1-2 orders of magnitude which are the most sensitive searches for a single β and electron capture decay ever achieved. Over all channels, the decay can be excluded for T_{1/2}<0.29×10^{18}  yr.
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decay,$^{180m}$ta
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