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

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44 papers

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…

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★ 1 cited

Optimization and first electronic implementation of the Constant-Fraction Time-Over-Threshold pulse shape discrimination method

A. Roy, D. Vartsky, I. Mor +7

In this contribution we report on further investigations of the recently-evaluated Constant-Fraction Time-over-Threshold (CF-ToT) method for neutron/gamma-ray pulse shape discrimin…

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★ 5 cited

Optimum Filter Synthesis with DPLMS Method for Energy Reconstruction

V. D'Andrea, S. Riboldi, A. Geraci +2

Optimum filters are granted increasing recognition as valuable tools for parametric estimation in many scientific and technical fields. The DPLMS method, introduced some twenty yea…

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★ 9 cited

Coded masks for imaging of neutrino events

M. Andreotti, P. Bernardini, A. Bersani +76

The capture of scintillation light emitted by liquid Argon and Xenon under molecular excitations by charged particles is still a challenging task. Here we present a first attempt t…

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★ 16 cited

Cryogenic SiPM arrays for the DUNE photon detection system

A. Falcone, A. Andreani, S. Bertolucci +29

In this paper we report on the characterization of SiPM tiles developed for the R & D on the DUNE Photon Detection System. The tiles were produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)…

physics.ins-det2019★ 13 cited

A low noise and low power cryogenic amplifier for single photoelectron sensitivity with large arrays of SiPMs

P. Carniti, A. Falcone, C. Gotti +4

This paper presents a low noise amplifier for large arrays of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) operated in cryogenic environments, especially liquid argon (87 K) and liquid nitroge…

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…

physics.ins-det2018

Fast Neutron Detection Efficiency of 6Li and 7Li Enriched CLYC Scintillators using an Am-Be source

N. Blasi, S. Brambilla, F. Camera +8

The fast neutrons produced by a calibrated 241Am-Be source were detected by two different Cs2LiYCl6:Ce (CLYC) scintillator detectors. The two cylindrical crystals (1"x1" in size) w…

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…