The GERDA Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiment

Neutrinoless double beta-decay is the key process to gain understanding of the nature of neutrinos. The GErmanium Detector Array (GERDA) is designed to search for this decay of the isotope Ge-76. Germanium crystals enriched in Ge-76, acting as source and detector simultaneously, will be submerged directly into an ultra pure cooling medium that also serves as a radiation shield. This concept will allow for a reduction of the background by up to two orders of magnitudes with respect to earlier experiments.

MAJOROVITS Bela;  HULT Mikael;  MARISSENS Gerd;  GASPARRO Joel;  ALTMANN M.;  BAKALYAROV A.;  BALATA M.;  BARABANOV I.;  BAUER C.;  BELLOTTI E.;  BELOGUROV S.;  BELYAEV S.T.;  BERNABE-HEIDER M.;  BETTINI A.;  BEZRUKOV L.;  BRUDANIN V.;  BUDJAS D.;  CALDWELL A.;  CATTADORI C;  CHKVORETS O;  DEMIDOVA E.V.;  DI VACRI A.;  EBERTH J.;  EGOROV V.;  GANGAPSHEV A.;  GRABMAYR P.;  GRIGORIEV G.Y.;  GUSEV K.;  GURENTSOV V.;  HAMPEL W.;  HEISEL M.;  HEUSSER G.;  HOFMANN W.;  INZHECHIK L.V.;  JELEN M.;  JOCHUM J.;  JUNKER M.;  KATULINA S.;  KIKO J.;  KIRPICHNIKOV I;  KLIMENKO A.;  KNAPP M.;  KNOEPFLE K.T.;  KOCHETOV O.;  KORNOUKHOV V.N.;  KROENINGER K.;  KUSMINOV V.;  LAUBENSTEIN M.;  LEBEDEV V;  LINDNER M.;  LIU X.;  LIU J.;  NEMCHENOK I.;  NIEDERMEIER L.;  OEHM J.;  PANDOLA L.;  PEIFFER P.;  PULLIA A.;  RITTER F.;  ROSSI ALVAREZ C.;  SANDUKOVSKY V.;  SCHOENERT S.;  SCHREINER J.;  SCHWAN U.;  SCHWINGENHEUER B.;  SHIRCHENKO M.;  SIMGEN H.;  SMALE N.;  SMOLNIKOV A.;  STELZER F.;  TIKHOMIROV A.V.;  TOMEI C.;  TRUNK U.;  UR C.A.;  VASENKO A.;  VASILIEV S.;  WEISSHAAR D.;  WOJCIK M.;  YANOVICH E.;  YURKOWSKI J.;  ZHUKOV S.;  ZOCCA E.;  ZUZEL G.; 

2007-11-13

Springer

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