Virtual depth by active background suppression: Revisiting the cosmic muon induced background of GERDA Phase II

In-situ production of long-lived isotopes by cosmic muon interactions may generate a non-negligible background for deep underground rare event searches. Previous Monte Carlo studies for the GERDA experiment at LNGS identified the delayed decays of $^{77}$Ge and its metastable state $^{77m}$Ge as dominant cosmogenic background in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{76}$Ge. This might limit the sensitivity of next generation experiments aiming for increased $^{76}$Ge mass at background-free conditions and thereby define a minimum depth requirement. A re-evaluation of the $^{77(m)}$Ge background for the GERDA experiment has been carried out by a set of Monte Carlo simulations. The obtained $^{77(m)}$Ge production rate is (0.21$\pm$0.01) nuclei/(kg$\cdot$yr). After application of state-of-the-art active background suppression techniques and simple delayed coincidence cuts this corresponds to a background contribution of (2.7$\pm$0.3)$\cdot10^{-6}$ cts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$yr). The suppression achieved by this strategy equals an effective muon flux reduction of more than one order of magnitude. This virtual depth increase opens the way for next generation rare event searches.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure

LArGe: Background suppression using liquid argon (LAr) scintillation for 0νββ\nu\beta\beta decay search with enriched germanium (Ge) detectors

Measurements with a bare p-type high purity germanium diode (HPGe) submerged in a 19 kg liquid argon (LAr) scintillation detector at MPIK Heidelberg are reported. The liquid argon--germanium system (LArGe) is operated as a 4$\pi$ anti-Compton spectrometer to suppress backgrounds in the HPGe. This R&D is carried out in the framework of the GERDA experiment which searches for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decays with HPGe detectors enriched in $^{76}$Ge. The goal of this work is to develop a novel method to discriminate backgrounds in 0$\nu\beta\beta$ search which would ultimately allow to investigate the effective neutrino mass free of background events down to the inverse mass hierarchy scale. Other applications in low-background counting are expected.Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, conference proceedings of the 10th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD06) 1 - 5 October 2006 Siena, Ital

Kriminalität und Devianz in den "Berliner Abendblättern"

Die "Berliner Abendblätter", das kurzfristige Zeitungsprojekt Heinrich von Kleists (1810/11), erhielten besondere Attraktivität durch Nachrichten und Darstellungen zum aktuellen Kriminalgeschehen. Mit seinen Texten zu diesem Gegenstandsbereich konnte sich Kleist vielfach auf die Polizei-Rapporte des Berliner Polizei-Präsidiums beziehen. Welche Strategien er dabei verfolgt, wird mit dem Beitrag erschlossen

Solar and Reactor Neutrinos: Upcoming Experiments and Future Projects

Sub-MeV solar neutrino experiments and long-baseline reactor oscillation experiments toe the cutting edge of neutrino research. The upcoming experiments KamLAND and BOREXINO, currently in their startup and final construction phase respectively, will provide essential information on neutrino properties as well as on solar physics. Future projects, at present under development, will measure the primary solar neutrino fluxes via electron scattering and neutrino capture in real time. High precision data for lepton mixing as well as for stellar evolution theory will become available in the future. This paper aims to give an overview of the upcoming experiments and of the projects under development.Comment: 11 pages, 14 figures, LATEX (espcrc2.sty). Contribution to the proceedings of "TAUP2001 - Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics", LNGS, Italy (September 8-12, 2001

Theorie der (literarischen) Satire:Ein funktionales Modell zur Beschreibung von Textstruktur und kommunikativer Wirkung

Das entworfene Modell der literarischen Satire geht davon aus, dass satirische Kommunikation innerhalb der institutionalisierten Handlungen literarischer Kommunikation durch eine besondere Funktionalisierung von textuellem System und außertextuellen Bezügen gekennzeichnet ist, die für die Textstruktur Relevanz hat. Der Beitrag verfolgt dabei auch ein theorie- und fachgeschichtliches Ziel und dokumentiert, wie in den späten 1960er und im Laufe der 1970er Jahre in der deutschsprachigen Literaturwissenschaft für den Gegenstandsbereich ›Theorie und Geschichte der Satire‹ der Anschluss an die internationale Diskussion hergestellt wurde