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most citedResults on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I

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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…

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 72 cited

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…

nucl-ex2017★ 5 cited

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…

nucl-ex2017★ 253 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 12 cited

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…

nucl-ex2016★ 17 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 26 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2016★ 26 cited

The Performance of the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment

K. Freund, R. Falkenstein, P. Grabmayr +11

Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events. The GERDA experiment located at LNGS is searching for the neutrinless double beta decay of Ge…

hep-ex2015★ 22 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2015★ 3 cited

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…

nucl-ex2015★ 86 cited

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) expe…

physics.ins-det2014★ 71 cited

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 made o…

nucl-ex2013★ 523 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2013★ 85 cited

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 experiment e…

physics.ins-det2013★ 85 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2013★ 10 cited

Isotopically modified Ge detectors for {\sc Gerda}: from production to operation

D. Budjáš, M. Agostini, L. Baudis +21

The \textsc{Gerda} experiment searches for the neutrinoless double beta (beta^{76}^{76}$Ge…

physics.ins-det2013★ 22 cited

HEROICA: an Underground Facility for the Fast Screening of Germanium Detectors

E. Andreotti, A. Garfagnini, W. Maneschg +29

An infrastructure to characterize germanium detectors has been designed and constructed at the HADES Underground Research Laboratory, located in Mol (Belgium). Thanks to the 223m o…

physics.ins-det2012★ 234 cited

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…

nucl-ex2012★ 60 cited

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…