Mary F. Kidd, Entered 2004/05  

Mary F. Kidd

Office Location: 402 TUNL
Office Phone: 919-660-2623
Email Address: mfk5@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~kidd

Specialties:
Experimental nuclear physics

Research Categories: Double Beta Decay

Research Description: The TUNL Double Beta Decay group is investigating two neutrino double beta (2νββ) decay to excited final states in nuclei such as 100Mo, 150Nd, and double electron capture on 112Sn. The motivation for studying 2νββ decay to excited final states is to test the reliability of nuclear matrix element calculations needed for determining the effective neutrino mass from zero-neutrino ββ decay data. Also, new limits for transitions to higher excited states may be of interest for more exotic conjectures, like a bosonic component to neutrino statistics.

Recent Publications

  1. M.F. Kidd, J.H. Esterline, W. Tornow, A.S. Barabash, V.I. Umatov, New results for double-beta decay of 100Mo to excited final states of 100Ru using the TUNL-ITEP apparatus, Nuclear Physics A (2009) (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.01.082.) [082]  [abs].
  2. M.F. Kidd, J.H. Esterline, W. Tornow, Double-electron capture on 112Sn to the excited 1871 keV state in 112Cd: A possible alternative to double-beta decay:, Phys. Rev. C, vol. 78 no. 035504 (2008) (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.78.035504.) [PhysRevC.78.035504]  [abs].