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most citedFinal Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay

393 citations · 969 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.ins-det2025

First operation of poly(ethylene naphthalate) enclosures for high-purity germanium detectors in liquid argon for K/Ar mitigation

Christoph Vogl, Tommaso Comellato, Konstantin Gusev +10

Commercial argon contains cosmogenic Ar whose progeny K is a critical background component for the Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay (LE…

physics.ins-det2025

Ar Production and Injection to a Liquid Argon Environment for Background Mitigation Studies

Mario Schwarz, Christoph Vogl, Niko N. P. N. Lay +6

Atmosphere-sourced argon contains traces of Ar, whose -decaying progeny K represents a significant intrinsic background for rare-event experiments using liquid a…

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…

hep-ex2025★ 19 cited

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 argo…

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-ex2023★ 24 cited

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$…

nucl-ex2023★ 7 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Topologies of Ge double-beta decay events and calibration procedure biases

Tommaso Comellato, Matteo Agostini, Stefan Schönert

The analysis of the time profile of electrical signals produced by energy depositions in germanium detectors allows discrimination of events with different topologies. This is espe…

nucl-ex2022★ 7 cited

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-det2022★ 9 cited

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★ 1 cited

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) experi…

physics.ins-det2022★ 22 cited

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 Labora…

physics.ins-det2021★ 52 cited

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 o…

physics.ins-det2021★ 13 cited

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 i…

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 det…

nucl-ex2020★ 393 cited

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-reachin…

physics.ins-det2020★ 11 cited

Charge-carrier collective motion in germanium detectors for ββ-decay searches

Tommaso Comellato, Matteo Agostini, Stefan Schönert

The time analysis of the signal induced by the drift of charge carriers in high purity germanium detectors provides information on the event topology. Millions of charge carriers a…

nucl-ex2019★ 16 cited

Modeling of GERDA Phase II data

GERDA collaboration, Matteo Agostini, Alexander M. Bakalyarov +107

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double-beta () decay of Ge. The t…

hep-ex2019★ 134 cited

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…

nucl-ex2018★ 260 cited

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…