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Publications (28)

nucl-ex2025

Fundamental Nuclear and Particle Physics At Neutron Sources

H. Abele, J. Amaral, W. R. Anthony +121

Fundamental neutron and neutrino physics at neutron sources, combining precision measurements and theory, can probe new physics at energy scales well beyond the highest energies pr…

physics.ins-det2018

Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches

O. Azzolini, M. T. Barrera, J. W. Beeman +47

The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors b…

physics.ins-det2025

Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +61

Percent-level calibration of cryogenic macro-calorimeters with energy thresholds below 100~eV are crucial for light Dark Matter (DM) searches and reactor neutrino studies based on…

physics.ins-det2022

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Characterization of the Low Energy Excess using a NUCLEUS detector

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos using low-threshold, gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters. Similar to other…

hep-ex2026

Prospect of the NUCLEUS Experiment at Chooz for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and New Physics Searches

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +67

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) at unprecedentedly low nuclear recoil energies using gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters…

nucl-ex2025

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…

physics.ins-det2022

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…

nucl-ex2022

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229

This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…

physics.ins-det2025

The CRAB facility at the TU Wien TRIGA reactor: status and related physics program

H. Abele, P. Ajello, A. Armatol +51

The CRAB (Calibrated nuclear Recoils for Accurate Bolometry) project aims to precisely characterize the response of cryogenic detectors to sub-keV nuclear recoils of direct interes…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

nucl-ex2023

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Sensitivity enhancement techniques for cryogenic calorimeters in the NUCLEUS experiment

M. Cappelli, A. Wallach, H. Abele +62

Phonon-mediated cryogenic calorimeters find application in rare event searches due to their intrinsically low energy threshold. Achieving the best sensitivity for this kind of dete…

nucl-ex2026

Determination of the Muon Lifetime in Se with the MONUMENT experiment

G. R. Araujo, D. Bajpai, L. Baudis +26

Ordinary muon capture provides a benchmark for the nuclear physics models of neutrinoless double beta decay under comparable momentum transfer conditions. The total capture strengt…

hep-ex2020

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…

nucl-ex2018

Search of the neutrino-less double beta decay of Se into the excited states of Kr with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini, M. T. Barrera, J. W. Beeman +47

The CUPID0 experiment searches for double beta decay using cryogenic calorimeters with double (heat and light) read-out. The detector, consisting of 24 ZnSe crystals 95 enriche…

hep-ex2025

Commissioning of the NUCLEUS Experiment at the Technical University of Munich

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +57

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos on CaWO targets in the fully coherent regime, using gram-scale cryog…

hep-ex2023

Probing Beyond the Standard Model Physics with Double-beta Decays

E. Bossio, M. Agostini

Nuclear double-beta decays are a unique probe to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Still-unknown particles, non-standard interactions, or the violation of fundament…

nucl-ex2023

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…

physics.ins-det2025

Particle background characterization and prediction for the NUCLEUS reactor CENS experiment

H. Abele, G. Anglogher, B. Arnold +57

NUCLEUS is a cryogenic detection experiment which aims to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) and to search for new physics at the Chooz nuclear power p…

physics.ins-det2025

Observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on Al2O3

H. Abele, P. Ajello, B. Arnold +43

We report the observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on aluminum in a cryogenic AlO detector developed by the NUCLEUS collaboration for the dete…

nucl-ex2024

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…

nucl-ex2023

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…

nucl-ex2020

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…

physics.ins-det2025

Decoupling Pulse Tube Vibrations from a Dry Dilution Refrigerator at milli-Kelvin Temperatures

The NUCLEUS collaboration, A. Wex, J. Rothe +64

With the rising adoption of dry dilution refrigerators across scientific and industrial domains, there has been a pressing demand for highly efficient vibration decoupling systems…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

nucl-ex2022

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…

physics.ins-det2021

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…