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most citedMeasurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam

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physics.ins-det2026

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Water Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimization

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie +36

COSINUS is a dark matter (DM) direct search experiment that uses sodium iodide (NaI) crystals as cryogenic calorimeters. Thanks to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold and event…

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…

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

First measurement of Gallium Arsenide as a low-temperature calorimeter

D. L. Helis, A. Melchiorre, A. Puiu +18

In this paper, we present the first measurement of a Gallium Arsenide crystal working as low-temperature calorimeter for direct Dark Matter (DM) searches within the DAREDEVIL (DARk…

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

Deep-underground dark matter search with a COSINUS detector prototype

The COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj +36

Sodium iodide (NaI) based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters using quantum sensors for signal read out have shown promising first results towards a model-independent test of the…

physics.ins-det2023★ 8 cited

Particle discrimination in a NaI crystal using the COSINUS remote TES design

COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj +38

The COSINUS direct dark matter experiment situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy is set to investigate the nature of the annually modulating signal detected by th…

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…

hep-ex2022

Updated constraints on sterile neutrino mixing in the OPERA experiment using a new identification method

N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +123

This paper describes a new identification method specifically designed to improve the low-energy () identification efficiency attained by enlarging…

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-det2021★ 2 cited

Track reconstruction and matching between emulsion and silicon pixel detectors for the SHiP-charm experiment

SHiP Collaboration

In July 2018 an optimization run for the proposed charm cross section measurement for SHiP was performed at the CERN SPS. A heavy, moving target instrumented with nuclear emulsion…

physics.ins-det2021★ 22 cited

First measurements of remoTES cryogenic calorimeters: easy-to-fabricate particle detectors for a wide choice of target materials

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, I. Dafinei +34

Low-temperature calorimeters based on a readout via Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) and operated below mK are well suited for rare event searches with outstanding resolution a…

hep-ex2021★ 13 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with Germanium Detectors: 10 yr and Beyond

V. D'Andrea, N. Di Marco, M. B. Junker +5

In the global landscape of neutrinoless double beta () decay search, the use of semiconductor germanium detectors provides many advantages. The excellent energy resolution, t…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Simulation-based design study for the passive shielding of the COSINUS dark matter experiment

G. Angloher, I. Dafinei, N. Di Marco +28

The COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) experiment aims at the detection of dark matter-induced recoils in sodium iodide (Na…

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 28 cited

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…

hep-ex2018

Latest results of the OPERA experiment on nu-tau appearance in the CNGS neutrino beam

N. Agafonova, A. Alexandrov, A. Anokhina +132

OPERA is a long-baseline experiment designed to search for oscillations in appearance mode. It was based at the INFN Gran Sasso laboratory (LNGS) and took data from 200…