Upgrade of the GERDA experiment

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata, I. Barabanov, N. Barros, L. Baudis, C. Bauer, N. Becerici-Schmidt, E. Bellotti, S. Belogurov, S. T. Belyaev, G. Benato, A. Bettini, L. Bezrukov, T. Bode, D. Borowicz, V. Brudanin, R. Brugnera, D. BudjášA. Caldwell, C. Cattadori, A. Cherno-Gorov, E. V. Demidova, A. Domula, V. Egorov, R. Falkenstein, K. Freund, N. Frodyma, A. Gangapshev, A. Garfagnini, C. Gotti, P. Grabmayr, V. Gurentsov, K. Gusev, W. Hampel, A. Hegai, M. Heisel, S. Hemmer, G. Heusser, W. Hofmann, M. Hult, L. V. Inzhechik, L. Ioannucci, J. Janicskó Csáthy, J. Jochum, M. Junker, V. Kazalov, T. Kihm, I. V. Kirpichnikov, A. Kirsch, A. Klimenko, K. T. Knöpfle, O. Kochetov, V. N. Kornoukhov, V. V. Kuzminov, M. Laubenstein, A. Lazzaro, V. I. Lebedev, B. Lehnert, H. Y. Liao, M. Lindner, I. Lippi, A. Lubashevskiy, B. Lubsandorzhiev, G. Lutter, C. Macolino, B. Majorovits, W. Maneschg, G. Marissens, M. Misiaszek, I. Nemchenok, S. Nisi, D. Palioselitis, L. Pandola, K. Pelczar, G. Pessina, A. Pullia, S. Riboldi, N. Rumyantseva, C. Sada, M. Salathe, C. Schmitt, J. Schreiner, O. Schulz, B. Schwingenheuer, S. Schönert, E. Shevchik, M. Shirchenko, H. Simgen, A. Smolnikov, L. Stanco, H. Strecker, C. A. Ur, A. A. Vasenko, K. Von Sturm, V. Wagner, M. Walter, A. Wegmann, T. Wester, H. Wilsenach, M. Wojcik, E. Yanovich, P. Zavarise, I. Zhitnikov, S. V. Zhukov, D. Zinatulina, K. Zuber, G. Zuzel

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Abstract

The GERDA experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. In Phase I it has achieved an unprecedented background index of 10-2 cts/(kev·kg·yr) at the Q value of the decay that allowed to set a new lower limit for the half-life of this lepton number violating process of 2.1·1025 yr (90% C.L.). This paper gives an overview of the present upgrade for Phase II where both background index and sensitivity shall be improved by about another order of magnitude.

Original languageEnglish
Article number109
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume0
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics Conference, TIPP 2014 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 2 Jun 20146 Jun 2014

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