@article{3781d4ec0fcf48458a387c00eee57586,
title = "Final Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay",
abstract = "The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment searched for the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless double-β (0νββ) decay of Ge76, whose discovery would have far-reaching implications in cosmology and particle physics. By operating bare germanium diodes, enriched in Ge76, in an active liquid argon shield, GERDA achieved an unprecedently low background index of 5.2×10-4 counts/(keV kg yr) in the signal region and met the design goal to collect an exposure of 100 kg yr in a background-free regime. When combined with the result of Phase I, no signal is observed after 127.2 kg yr of total exposure. A limit on the half-life of 0νββ decay in Ge76 is set at T1/2>1.8×1026 yr at 90% C.L., which coincides with the sensitivity assuming no signal.",
author = "{(GERDA Collaboration)} and M. Agostini and Araujo, {G. R.} and Bakalyarov, {A. M.} and M. Balata and I. Barabanov and L. Baudis and C. Bauer and E. Bellotti and S. Belogurov and A. Bettini and L. Bezrukov and V. Biancacci and D. Borowicz and E. Bossio and V. Bothe and V. Brudanin and R. Brugnera and A. Caldwell and C. Cattadori and A. Chernogorov and T. Comellato and V. D'Andrea and Demidova, {E. V.} and {Di Marco}, N. and E. Doroshkevich and F. Fischer and M. Fomina and A. Gangapshev and A. Garfagnini and C. Gooch and P. Grabmayr and V. Gurentsov and K. Gusev and J. Hakenm{\"u}ller and S. Hemmer and R. Hiller and W. Hofmann and J. Huang and M. Hult and Inzhechik, {L. V.} and {Janicsk{\'o} Cs{\'a}thy}, J. and J. Jochum and M. Junker and V. Kazalov and Y. Kerma{\"i}dic and H. Khushbakht and T. Kihm and Kirpichnikov, {I. V.} and A. Klimenko and S. Sch{\"o}nert",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.252502",
language = "English",
volume = "125",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "25",
}