Publications (55)
Measurement of the Decay Half-Life and Search for the Decay of Cd with the NEMO-3 Detector
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +94
The NEMO-3 experiment measured the half-life of the decay and searched for the decay of Cd. Using g of Cd installed in the detector with a…
Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +112
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a process that violates lepton number conservation. It is predicted to occur in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. This Letter…
Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +103
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment located at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), is looking for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge76, by using high-purity g…
Search for the in-situ production of Ge in the GERDA neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment
M. Agostini, A. Alexander, G. Araujo +108
The beta decay of Ge and Ge, both produced by neutron capture on Ge, is a potential background for Germanium based neutrinoless double-beta decay sea…
Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment
A. S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, S. Blot +95
SuperNEMO is a double- decay experiment, which will employ the successful tracker-calorimeter technique used in the recently completed NEMO-3 experiment. SuperNEMO will impleme…
The Impact of Helium Exposure on the PMTs of the SuperNEMO Experiment
SuperNEMO Collaboration, X. Aguerre, A. S. Barabash +76
The performance of Hamamatsu 8" photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) of the type used in the SuperNEMO neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment (R5912-MOD), is investigated as a function…
Liquid argon light collection and veto modeling in GERDA Phase II
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +115
The ability to detect liquid argon scintillation light from within a densely packed high-purity germanium detector array allowed the GERDA experiment to reach an exceptionally low…
Energy Calibration and Performance of HPGe Detectors in the LEGEND-200 Experiment
The LEGEND Collaboration, H. Acharya, M. Agostini +259
This paper describes the energy scale procedures and germanium detectors performance in the LEGEND-200 experiment, a critical component for the first unblinding in the search for n…
Result of the search for neutrinoless double- decay in Mo with the NEMO-3 experiment
R. Arnold, C. Augier, J. D. Baker +87
The NEMO-3 detector, which had been operating in the Modane Underground Laboratory from 2003 to 2010, was designed to search for neutrinoless double () decay. We repo…
Measurement of the distribution of Bi depositions on calibration sources for SuperNEMO
R. Arnold, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +97
The SuperNEMO experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (), and study the Standard-Model double-beta decay process (). The SuperNEMO technology ca…
The background in the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment GERDA
The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +111
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. The signature of th…
Measurement of the Double Beta Decay Half-life of 130Te with the NEMO-3 Detector
R. Arnold, C. Augier, J. Baker +67
This Letter reports results from the NEMO-3 experiment based on an exposure of 1275 days with 661g of 130Te in the form of enriched and natural tellurium foils. The double beta dec…
Upgrade for Phase II of the GERDA Experiment
M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata +111
The GERDA collaboration is performing a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The upgrade of the…
The first search for bosonic super-WIMPs with masses up to 1 MeV/c with GERDA
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +106
We present the first search for bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter candidates performed with the GERDA experiment. GERDA is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment wh…
Search for Periodic Modulations of the Rate of Double-Beta Decay of Mo in the NEMO-3 Detector
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +105
Double-beta decays of Mo from the 6.0195-year exposure of a 6.914 kg high-purity sample were recorded by the NEMO-3 experiment that searched for neutrinoless double-beta de…
The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge
GERDA Collaboration, K. -H. Ackermann, M. Agostini +136
The GERDA collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{76}Ge with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the…
Search for neutrinoless quadruple- decay of Nd with the NEMO-3 detector
R. Arnold, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +96
We report the results of a first experimental search for lepton number violation by four units in the neutrinoless quadruple- decay of Nd using a total exposure of $0.1…
Flux Modulations seen by the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +112
The GERDA experiment at LNGS of INFN is equipped with an active muon veto. The main part of the system is a water Cherenkov veto with 66~PMTs in the water tank surrounding the GERD…
An improved limit on the neutrinoless double-electron capture of Ar with GERDA
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +110
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment operated enriched high-purity germanium detectors in a liquid argon cryostat, which contains 0.33% of Ar, a candidate isotope…
Final Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +112
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment searched for the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless double- () decay of Ge, whose discovery would have far-rea…
LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report
LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261
We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one…
Improvement of the Energy Resolution via an Optimized Digital Signal Processing in GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +111
An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the GERDA experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The GERDA Phase I energy calibration data…
Search for exotic physics in double- decays with GERDA Phase II
The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +111
A search for Beyond the Standard Model double- decay modes of Ge has been performed with data collected during the Phase II of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) exper…
Characterization of 30 Ge enriched Broad Energy Ge detectors for GERDA Phase II
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +112
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) is a low background experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay o…
Characterization of inverted coaxial Ge detectors in GERDA for future double- decay experiments
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +108
Neutrinoless double- decay of Ge is searched for with germanium detectors where source and detector of the decay are identical. For the success of future experiments it…
Mitigation of Ar/K background for the GERDA Phase II experiment
A. Lubashevskiy, M. Agostini, D. Budjáš +11
Background coming from the Ar decay chain is considered to be one of the most relevant for the GERDA experiment, which aims to search of the neutrinoless double beta decay o…
decay of Ge into excited states with GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +113
Two neutrino double beta decay of Ge to excited states of Se has been studied using data from Phase I of the GERDA experiment. An array composed of up to 14 germanium…
The BiPo-3 detector for the measurement of ultra low natural radioactivities of thin materials
A. S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, E. Birdsall +93
The BiPo-3 detector, running in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, LSC, Spain) since 2013, is a low-radioactivity detector dedicated to meas…
Limits on uranium and thorium bulk content in GERDA Phase I detectors
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +113
Internal contaminations of U, U and Th in the bulk of high purity germanium detectors are potential backgrounds for experiments searching for neutrinoless d…
Results on decay with emission of two neutrinos or Majorons in Ge from GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +109
A search for neutrinoless decay processes accompanied with Majoron emission has been performed using data collected during Phase I of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) ex…
Background free search for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA Phase II
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +113
The Standard Model of particle physics cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our Universe. In many model extensions this is a very natural consequence of neutr…
Asymptotic properties of Arnold tongues and Josephson effect
A. Klimenko, O. Romaskevich
A three-parametrical family of ODEs on a torus arises from a model of Josephson effect in a resistive case when a Josephson junction is biased by a sinusoidal microwave current. We…
Measurement of the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Ge-76 with the Gerda experiment
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +110
The primary goal of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN is the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76…
A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS
I. Abt, M. Altmann, A. Bakalyarov +46
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…
Pulse shape analysis in GERDA Phase II
The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. Araujo +113
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge using isotopically enriched high purity germanium detectors at the Labor…
Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge from GERDA Phase II
M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata +105
The GERDA experiment searches for the lepton number violating neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge (Ge Se + 2e) operating bare Ge diodes with…
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of Mo with the NEMO-3 Detector
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +81
We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double- decay (0) of Mo, using the NEMO-3 detector to reconstruct the full topology of the final state ev…
The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)
LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Abramov +230
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on ne…
Measurement of the 2 decay half-life of Nd and a search for 0 decay processes with the full exposure from the NEMO-3 detector
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +92
We present results from a search for neutrinoless double- () decay using 36.6 g of the isotope Nd with data corresponding to a live time of 5.25 y recorded wit…
Highly sensitive gamma-spectrometers of GERDA for material screening: Part I
D. Budjáš, C. Cattadori, A. Gangapshev +16
The GERDA experiment aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta-decay of 76Ge and possibly for other rare processes. The sensitivity of the first phase is envisioned to be mor…
Search for the double-beta decay of 82Se to the excited states of 82Kr with NEMO-3
3 collaboration, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +104
The double-beta decay of 82Se to the 0+1 excited state of 82Kr has been studied with the NEMO-3 detector using 0.93 kg of enriched 82Se measured for 4.75 y, corresponding to an exp…
Production, characterization and operation of Ge enriched BEGe detectors in GERDA
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +109
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of Ge. Germanium detectors mad…
Final results on Se double beta decay to the ground state of Kr from the NEMO-3 experiment
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +96
Using data from the NEMO-3 experiment, we have measured the two-neutrino double beta decay () half-life of Se as $T_{1/2}^{2ν} = \left[ 9.39 \pm 0.17\,\left(\mbox{…
Measurement of the two neutrino double beta decay half-life of Zr-96 with the NEMO-3 detector
J. Argyriades, R. Arnold, C. Augier +66
Using 9.4 g of Zr-96 and 1221 days of data from the NEMO-3 detector corresponding to 0.031 kg yr, the obtained 2vbb decay half-life measurement is [2.35 +/- 0.14(stat) +/- 0.16(sys…
Calibration of the GERDA experiment
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +109
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge with an array of about 40 high-purity isotopically-enriched germanium de…
Limit on the Radiative Neutrinoless Double Electron Capture of Ar from GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +115
Neutrinoless double electron capture is a process that, if detected, would give evidence of lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. A search for neutrinoless…
LArGe - Active background suppression using argon scintillation for the GERDA -experiment
M. Agostini, M. Barnabé-Heider, D. Budjáš +11
LArGe is a GERDA low-background test facility to study novel background suppression methods in a low-background environment, for future application in the GERDA experiment. Similar…
Pulse shape discrimination for GERDA Phase I data
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +111
The GERDA experiment located at the LNGS searches for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of ^{76}Ge using germanium diodes as source and detector. In Phase I of the experimen…
Probing Majorana neutrinos with double- decay
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +111
A discovery that neutrinos are not the usual Dirac but Majorana fermions, i.e. identical to their antiparticles, would be a manifestation of new physics with profound implications…
Search for tri-nucleon decays of Ge in GERDA
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +111
We search for tri-nucleon decays of Ge in the dataset from the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment. Decays that populate excited levels of the daughter nucleus above…
Final Results of GERDA on the Two-Neutrino Double- Decay Half-Life of Ge
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +116
We present the measurement of the two-neutrino double- decay rate of Ge performed with the GERDA Phase II experiment. With a subset of the entire GERDA exposure, 11.8 kg…
Searches for new physics below twice the electron mass with GERDA
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +108
A search for full energy depositions from bosonic keV-scale dark matter candidates of masses between 65 keV and 1021 keV has been performed with data collected during Phase II of t…
First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment
H. Acharya, N. Ackermann, M. Agostini +256
The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta () decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge in a low-background liquid a…
Measurement of the neutron F2 structure function via spectator tagging with CLAS
N. Baillie, S. Tkachenko, J. Zhang +147
We report on the first measurement of the F2 structure function of the neutron from semi-inclusive scattering of electrons from deuterium, with low-momentum protons detected in the…
Measurement of the double-beta decay half-life and search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of with the NEMO-3 detector
3 Collaboration, R. Arnold, C. Augier +96
The NEMO-3 experiment at the Modane Underground Laboratory has investigated the double- decay of . Using yr of data recorded with a sample…