Publications (206)
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…
Footprints of the Newly-Discovered Vela Supernova in Antarctic Ice Cores?
C. P. Burgess, K. Zuber
The recently-discovered, nearby young supernova remnant in the southeast corner of the older Vela supernova remnant may have been seen in measurements of nitrate abundances in Anta…
Measurement of the proton light response of various LAB based scintillators and its implication for supernova neutrino detection via neutrino-proton scattering
B. von Krosigk, L. Neumann, R. Nolte +2
The proton light output function in electron-equivalent energy of various scintillators based on linear alkylbenzene (LAB) has been measured in the energy range from 1 MeV to 17.15…
Photoexcitation of Ge
R. Schwengner, R. Massarczyk, K. Schmidt +15
The dipole strength of the nuclide Ge was studied in photon-scattering experiments using bremsstrahlung produced with electron beams of energies of 7.8 and 12.3 MeV at the $…
An alternative search for the electron capture of Te-123
D. Muenstermann, K. Zuber
A search for the electron capture of Te-123 has been performed using CdZnTe detectors. After a measuring time of 195 h no signal could be found resulting in a lower half-life limt…
Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +129
Neutron production in GeV-scale neutrino interactions is a poorly studied process. We have measured the neutron multiplicities in atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Sudbury N…
Status of neutrino oscillation searches
K. Zuber
The current status of neutrino oscillation searches with reactors and accelerators is reviewed. An outlook, especially on future long baseline neutrino oscillation projects, is giv…
Identification of the cosmogenic C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +93
Cosmogenic radio-nuclei are an important source of background for low-energy neutrino experiments. In Borexino, cosmogenic C decays outnumber solar and CNO neutrino ev…
Astrophysical S-factor of the reaction at 0.4 -- 1.3\,MeV
L. Wagner, S. Akhmadaliev, M. Anders +18
The reaction is the slowest reaction of the carbon-nitrogen cycle of hydrogen burning and thus determines its rate. The precise know…
Beyond the Neutron Drip-Line: The Unbound Oxygen Isotopes 25O and 26O
C. Caesar, J. Simonis, T. Adachi +121
The very neutron-rich oxygen isotopes 25O and 26O are investigated experimentally and theoret- ically. In this first R3B-LAND experiment, the unbound states are populated at GSI vi…
Progress of the Felsenkeller shallow-underground accelerator for nuclear astrophysics
D. Bemmerer, F. Cavanna, T. E. Cowan +15
Low-background experiments with stable ion beams are an important tool for putting the model of stellar hydrogen, helium, and carbon burning on a solid experimental foundation. The…
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…
The SNO+ Experiment
SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251
The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 ton…
Cosmogenic Neutron Production at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +128
Neutrons produced in nuclear interactions initiated by cosmic-ray muons present an irreducible background to many rare-event searches, even in detectors located deep underground. M…
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…
The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory
The COBRA collaboration, J. Ebert, M. Fritts +28
The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran…
Correlated and Integrated Directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94
Liquid scintillator detectors play a central role in the detection of neutrinos from various sources. In particular, it is the only technique used so far for the precision spectros…
On the physics of massive neutrinos
K. Zuber
Massive neutrinos open up the possibility for a variety of new physical phenomena. Among them are oscillations and double beta decay. Furthermore they influence several fields from…
Borexino's search for low-energy neutrinos associated with gravitational wave events from GWTC-3 database
BOREXINO Collaboration, D. Basilico, G. Bellini +72
The search for neutrino events in correlation with gravitational wave (GW) events for three observing runs (O1, O2 and O3) from 09/2015 to 03/2020 has been performed using the Bore…
Effective Majorana neutrino masses
K. Zuber
A generalisation of the neutrinoless double beta decay process is presented. Neutrinoless double beta decay measures only one out of nine possible effective Majorana neutrino masse…
Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130
The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hyd…
A search for the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture of Ni
B. Lehnert, D. Degering, A. Frotscher +2
A search for the radiative neutrinoless double electron capture with single \gray\ emission has been performed in Ni. Gamma radiation from a 7286 g nickel sample in natural…
Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future
D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +85
The Borexino experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is an organic liquid scintillator detector conceived for the real time spectroscopy of low energy solar neut…
Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +120
A measurement of the B solar neutrino flux has been made using a 69.2 kt-day dataset acquired with the SNO+ detector during its water commissioning phase. At energies above 6 M…
Novel techniques for alpha/beta pulse shape discrimination in Borexino
D. Basilico, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +71
Borexino could efficiently distinguish between alpha and beta radiation in its liquid scintillator by the characteristic time profile of their scintillation pulse. This alpha/beta…
Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +116
This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available dat…
Precision half-life measurement of the 4-fold forbidden electron capture of V-50
H. Dombrowski, S. Neumaier, K. Zuber
A sensitive search of the 4-fold forbidden non-unique beta decay of V-50 has been performed. A total exposure of 185.8 kg x d has been accumulated. A reliable half-life value with…
Bound-State Beta Decay of Ions and the LOREX Project
R. S. Sidhu, G. Leckenby, R. J. Chen +55
Stable Tl ions have the lowest known energy threshold for capturing electron neutrinos () of \,keV. The Lorandite Experiment (LOREX), proposed in…
Kaon physics with a high-intensity proton driver
A. Belyaev, G. Buchalla, A. Ceccucci +10
We study opportunities for future high-precision experiments in kaon physics using a high-intensity proton driver, which could be part of the front-end of a muon storage ring compl…
First Evidence of Solar Neutrino Interactions on C
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +111
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of solar neutrinos interacting on nuclei. The charged current interaction proceeds through $^{13}\t…
Measurement of the and Total B Solar Neutrino Fluxes with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Phase-III Data Set
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, J. F. Amsbaugh +147
This paper details the solar neutrino analysis of the 385.17-day Phase-III data set acquired by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). An array of He proportional counters was…
Experimental study of double beta decay modes using a CdZnTe detector array
J. V. Dawson, C. Goessling, B. Janutta +8
An array of sixteen 1 cm^3 CdZnTe semiconductor detectors was operated at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) to further investigate the feasibility of double-beta decay s…
A tin-loaded liquid scintillator approach for the 2 neutrino double-beta decay measurement of Sn-124
O. Chkvorets, C. Kraus, J. Kuettler +3
A new experiment based on tin-loaded scintillator is proposed to measure the 2nu double beta decay half-life of Sn-124 for the first time. Measurements of long term stabilitiy and…
New determination of double-beta-decay properties in 48Ca: high-precision Q-value measurement and improved nuclear matrix element calculations
A. A. Kwiatkowski, T. Brunner, J. D. Holt +16
We report a direct measurement of the Q-value of the neutrinoless double-beta-decay candidate 48Ca at the TITAN Penning-trap mass spectrometer, with the result that Q = 4267.98(32)…
Constraints on non-standard neutrino interactions from Borexino extended data-set
V. Antonelli, D. Basilico, G. Bellini +74
Neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI) constitute an active research field, as they are closely related to potential new physics associated with dark matter searches and exotic i…
Probing the order-to-chaos region in superdeformed 151Tb and 196Pb nuclei with continuum gamma-transitions
S. Leoni, G. Benzoni, N. Blasi +26
The gamma-decay associated with the warm rotation of the superdeformed (SD) nuclei 151Tb and 196Pb has been measured with the EUROBALL IV array. Several independent quantities prov…
Seasonal Modulation of the Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99
We detected the seasonal modulation of the Be neutrino interaction rate with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The period, amplitude, a…
Spectroscopy of geo-neutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data
Borexino collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +99
We report an improved geo-neutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking. The present exposure is protonyr. Assuming a chondrit…
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…
Mass measurements of 99-101In challenge ab initio nuclear theory of the nuclide 100Sn
M. Mougeot, D. Atanasov, J. Karthein +23
100Sn is of singular interest for nuclear structure. Its closed-shell proton and neutron configuration exhibit exceptional binding and 100Sn is the heaviest nucleus comprising prot…
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…
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…
An Investigation on Cooling of CZT Co-Planar Grid Detectors
J. V. Dawson, C. Montag, C. Reeve +2
The effect of moderate cooling on CdZnTe semiconductor detectors has been studied for the COBRA experiment. Improvements in energy resolution and low energy threshold were observed…
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…
Study of Deformation Effects in the Charged Particle Emission from 46Ti
M. Brekiesz, P. Papka, A. Maj +13
The 46Ti compound nucleus, as populated by the fusion-evaporation reaction 27Al + 19F at the bombarding energy of 144 MeV, has been investigated by charged particle spectroscopy us…
Physics with Low-Energy Muons at a Neutrino Factory Complex
J. Aysto, A. Baldini, A. Blondel +11
The physics potential of an intense source of low-energy muons is studied. Such a source is a necessary stage towards building the neutrino factories and muon colliders which are b…
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…
Low-energy (anti)neutrino physics with Borexino: Neutrinos from the primary proton-proton fusion process in the Sun
P. Mosteiro, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +88
The Sun is fueled by a series of nuclear reactions that produce the energy that makes it shine. The primary reaction is the fusion of two protons into a deuteron, a positron and a…
Final results of Borexino on CNO solar neutrinos
D. Basilico, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +72
We report the first measurement of CNO solar neutrinos by Borexino that uses the Correlated Integrated Directionality (CID) method, exploiting the sub-dominant Cherenkov light in t…
Modulations of the Cosmic Muon Signal in Ten Years of Borexino Data
The Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +113
We have measured the flux of cosmic muons in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso at 3800\,m\,w.e. to be based on ten y…
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…
Search for Fingerprints of Tetrahedral Symmetry in
Q. T. Doan, D. Curien, O. Stezowski +28
Theoretical predictions suggest the presence of tetrahedral symmetry as an explanation for the vanishing intra-band E2-transitions at the bottom of the odd-spin negative parity ban…
Spectrum and Charge Ratio of Vertical Cosmic Ray Muons up to Momenta of 2.5 TeV/c
CosmoALEPH Collaboration, M. Schmelling, N. O. Hashim +10
The ALEPH detector at LEP has been used to measure the momentum spectrum and charge ratio of vertical cosmic ray muons underground. The sea-level cosmic ray muon spectrum for momen…
The Low Polonium Field of Borexino and its significance for the CNO neutrino detection
S. Kumaran, M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller +93
Borexino is a liquid scintillator detector located at the Laboratori Nazionale del Gran Sasso, Italy with the main goal to measure solar neutrinos. The experiment recently provided…
Probing the N = 32 shell closure below the magic proton number Z = 20: Mass measurements of the exotic isotopes 52,53K
M. Rosenbusch, P. Ascher, D. Atanasov +21
The recently confirmed neutron-shell closure at N = 32 has been investigated for the first time below the magic proton number Z = 20 with mass measurements of the exotic isotopes 5…
Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +104
A search for the solar neutrino effective magnetic moment has been performed using data from 1291.5 days exposure during the second phase of the Borexino experiment. No significant…
The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441
This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…
Combined Analysis of all Three Phases of Solar Neutrino Data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +121
We report results from a combined analysis of solar neutrino data from all phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. By exploiting particle identification information obtained fr…
Long term prospects for double beta decay
K. Zuber
In rather general terms the long term perspective of double beta decay is discussed. All important experimental parameters are investigated as well as the status of nuclear matrix…
Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223
A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…
Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195
This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…
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…
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…
Double Beta Decays into Excited States in Pd and Pd
B. Lehnert, E. Andreotti, D. Degering +4
A search for double beta decays of Pd and Pd into excited states of the daughter nuclides has been performed using three ultra-low background gamma-spectrometry mea…
Search for the Jacobi shape transition in light nuclei
A. Maj, M. Kmiecik, M. Brekiesz +19
The gamma-rays following the reaction 105 MeV 18O + 28Si have been measured using the EUROBALL IV, HECTOR and EUCLIDES arrays in order to investigate the predicted Jacobi shape tra…
A search for various double beta decay modes of tin isotopes
J. Dawson, R. Ramaswamy, C. Reeve +2
For the first time an extensive search for various double beta decay modes of 124Sn and 112Sn has been performed. A total exposure of 43.29 kg.days has been accumulated. New half-l…
Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +91
Neutrinos emitted in the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle in the Sun are a sub-dominant, yet crucial component of solar neutrinos whose flux has not been measured yet. T…
Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe
F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser +92
The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe. Out of its 50t tota…
A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino
Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +95
Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio-purity of the scintilla…
Neutron flux and spectrum in the Dresden Felsenkeller underground facility studied by moderated He counters
M. Grieger, T. Hensel, J. Agramunt +11
Ambient neutrons may cause significant background for underground experiments. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate their flux and energy spectrum in order to devise a proper…
Laser spectroscopy of neutron-rich Hg isotopes: Illuminating the kink and odd-even staggering in charge radii across the shell closure
T. Day Goodacre, A. V. Afanasjev, A. E. Barzakh +41
The mean-square charge radii of Hg () have been studied for the first time and those of Hg () remeasured by the applicat…
Pulse shape discrimination performance of Inverted Coaxial Ge detectors
A. Domula, M. Hult, Y. Kermaidic +4
We report on the characterization of two inverted coaxial Ge detectors in the context of being employed in future Ge neutrinoless double beta () decay experiments.…
A search for low-energy neutrinos correlated with gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104 with the Borexino detector
M. Agostini, K. Altenmuller, S. Appel +99
We present the results of a low-energy neutrino search using the Borexino detector in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104. We search…
Experimental study of 113Cd beta decay using CdZnTe detectors
C. Goessling, M. Junker, H. Kiel +3
A search for the 4-fold forbidden beta decay of \iso{Cd}{113} has been performed with CdZnTe semiconductors. With 0.86 kg days of statistics a half-life for the decay of $T…
Status of terrestrial neutrino oscillation searches
K. Zuber
The present status of neutrino oscillation searches with reactors and accelerators is reviewed. An outlook, especially on future long baseline neutrino oscillation projects, is giv…
A search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmeuller, S. Appel +97
A search for neutrino and antineutrino events correlated with 2,350 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is performed with Borexino data collected between December 2007 and November 2015. No st…
Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors using Pure Water at SNO+
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +114
The SNO+ Collaboration reports the first evidence of reactor antineutrinos in a Cherenkov detector. The nearest nuclear reactors are located 240~km away in Ontario, Canada. This an…
Double electron capture searches in Se
B. Lehnert, T. Wester, D. Degering +3
A search for various double electron capture modes of Se has been performed using an ultralow background Ge-detector in the Felsenkeller laboratory, Germany. Especially for…
"Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" at a Neutrino Factory
W. Rodejohann, K. Zuber
We examine the prospects of detecting an analogous process of neutrinoless double beta decay at a neutrino factory from a high energy muon storage ring. Limits from LEP experiments…
Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +101
We report on searches for neutrinos and antineutrinos from astrophysical sources performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Electron…
Double beta decay with large scale Yb-loaded scintillators
K. Zuber
The potential of large scale Yb-loaded liquid scintillators as proposed for solar neutrino spectroscopy are investigated with respect to double beta decay. The potential for beta-b…
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…
Search for solar neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrino background using all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +129
A search has been performed for neutrinos from two sources, the reaction in the solar fusion chain and the component of the diffuse supernova neutrino background…
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…
First observation of the electron capture of As
A. R. Domula, K. Zuber
For a variety of radionuclides which decay via $β^{-}$ and a weak $β^{+}$-channel the electron-capture (EC) is not observed yet. As the interest of exact decay characteristica in…
Determination of the Neutron-Capture Rate of 17C for the R-process Nucleosynthesis
M. Heine, S. Typel, M. -R. Wu +124
With the RB-LAND setup at GSI we have measured exclusive relative-energy spectra of the Coulomb dissociation of C at a projectile energy around 425~AMeV on a lead targ…
Probing the nuclide 180W for neutrinoless double-electron capture exploration
C. Droese, K. Blaum, M. Block +10
The mass difference of the nuclides 180W and 180Hf has been measured with the Penning-trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP to investigate 180W as a possible candidate for the search for…
Tests of Lorentz invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +131
Experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in systems of all types are critical for ensuring that the basic assumptions of physics are well-founded. Data from all phases of the Sudbury…
Solar neutrino with Borexino: results and perspectives
O. Smirnov, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +87
Borexino is a unique detector able to perform measurement of solar neutrinos fluxes in the energy region around 1 MeV or below due to its low level of radioactive background. It wa…
A search for double beta decays of tin isotopes with enhanced sensitivity
J. Dawson, D. Degering, M. Köhler +4
A search for the various double beta decay modes of 124Sn and 112Sn has been performed on 75 kg.days of data. New half-life limits for excited states in 124Sn have been obtained in…
Possible improvements on the mass of the tau neutrino using leptonic decays
S. Pakvasa, K. Zuber
We show how a very accurate measurement of the branching ratios of the leptonic decay modes of the mesons can lead to a significant improvement in the mass limit for the…
A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…
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…
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…
Evidence for the Jacobi shape transition in hot 46Ti
A. Maj, M. Kmiecik, A. Bracco +24
The gamma-rays from the decay of the GDR in 46Ti compound nucleus formed in the 18O+28Si reaction at bombarding energy 105 MeV have been measured in an experiment using a setup con…
Neutrinoless double beta decay experiments
K. Zuber
The study of neutrinoless double beta decay is of outmost importance for neutrino physics. It is considered to be the gold plated channel to probe the fundamental character of neut…
First Directional Measurement of sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94
We report the measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through the use of their associated Cherenkov radiation, performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del G…