Abstract
The Gerda experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy uses germanium detectors made from material with an enriched 76Ge isotope fraction to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of this nucleus. Applying a blind analysis we find no signal after an exposure of 21.6 kg·yr and a background of about 0.01 cts/(keV·kg·yr). A half-life limit of Tov1/2> 2.1 · 1025 yr (90% C.L.) is extracted. The previous claim of a signal for 76Ge is excluded with 99% probability in a model independent way.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 828-837 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Physics Procedia |
Volume | 61 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013 - , United States Duration: 8 Sep 2013 → 13 Sep 2013 |
Keywords
- double beta decay