The GERDA Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiment

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.; GASPARRO JOEL; GRABMAYR P.; GRIGORIEV G.y.; GURENTSOV V.; GUSEV K.; HAMPEL W.; HEISEL M.; HEUSSER G.; HOFMANN W.; HULT MIKAEL; 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 J.; LIU X.; MAJOROVITS Bela; MARISSENS GERD; 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.

The GERDA Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay Experiment

Authors: 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.
GASPARRO JOEL
GRABMAYR P.
GRIGORIEV G.y.
GURENTSOV V.
GUSEV K.
HAMPEL W.
HEISEL M.
HEUSSER G.
HOFMANN W.
HULT MIKAEL
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 J.
LIU X.
MAJOROVITS Bela
MARISSENS GERD
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.
Publication date: 31 October 2007
Publisher: 'Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH'

Abstract

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.JRC.D.4-Isotope measurement

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