Research report 2006 - Max Planck Institute for Physics

The GERDA Experiment to seach for neutrinoless double beta-decay

Authors
Abt, I., Caldwell, A., Jelen, M., Lenz, D., Liu, J., Liu, X., Kröninger, K., Majorovits, B., Stelzer, F.
Departments
Summary
The GERDA experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta-decay at LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), Italy. The aim of the first phase is to scrutinize the positive claim of a part of the Heidelberg-Moscow collaboration after approximately one year of measurement. The second phase will further push the sensitivity to a neutrino mass of as low as 200 meV. A new 18-fold segmented true coaxial n-type germanium detector was developed in collaboration with Canberra-France.

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