A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS

Abt, I.; Altmann, M.; Bakalyarov, A.; Barabanov, I.; Bauer, C.; Bellotti, E.; Belyaev, S. T.; Bezrukov, L.; Bolotsky, V. P.; Brudanin, V.; Buettner, C.; Caldwell, A.; Cattadori, C.; Clement, H.; Di Vacri, A.; Eberth, J.; Egorov, V.; Grigoriev, G.; Gurentsov, V.; Gusev, K.; Hampel, W.; Heusser, G.; Hofmann, W.; Jochum, J.; Junker, M.; Kiko, J.; Kirpichnikov, I. V.; Klimenko, A.; Knoepfle, K. T.; Kornoukhov, V. N.; Laubenstein, M.; Lebedev, V.; Liu, X.; Nemchenok, I.; Pandola, L.; Sandukovsky, V.; Schoenert, S.; Scholl, S.; Schwingenheuer, B.; Simgen, H.; Smolnikov, A.; Tikhomirov, A.; Vasenko, A. A.; Vasiliev, S.; Weisshaar, D.; Yanovich, E.; Yurkowski, J.; Zhukov, S.; Zuzel, G.

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A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS

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This Letter of Intent has been submitted to the Scientific Committee of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in March 2004. It describes a novel facility at the LNGS to study the double beta decay of 76Ge using an (optionally active) cryogenic fluid shield. The setup will allow to scrutinize with high significance on a short time scale the current evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge using the existing 76Ge diodes from the previous Heidelberg-Moscow and IGEX experiments. An increase in the lifetime limit can be achieved by adding more enriched detectors, remaining thereby background-free up to a few 100 kg-years of exposure.Comment: 67 pages, 19 eps figures, 17 tables, gzipped tar fil

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