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

393 citations · 894 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

physics.ins-det2025

Electromagnetic energy calibration of the SoLid detector with horizontal muons

SoLid collaboration

SoLid is a neutrino experiment at very-short baseline searching for active-to-sterile oscillations of reactor antineutrinos. The detection principle is based on the pairing of two…

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…

hep-ex2024

Search for Very-Short-Baseline Oscillations of Reactor Antineutrinos with the SoLid Detector

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold +57

In this letter we report the first scientific result based on antineutrinos emitted from the BR2 reactor at SCK CEN. The SoLid experiment uses a novel type of highly granular detec…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

The CCube reconstruction algorithm for the SoLid experiment

The SoLid collaboration

The SoLid experiment is a very-short-baseline experiment aimed at searching for nuclear reactor-produced active to sterile antineutrino oscillations. The detection principle is bas…

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…

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★ 8 cited

Optical properties of low background PEN structural components for the LEGEND-200 experiment

L. Manzanillas, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +6

Polyethylene Naphthalate (PEN) plastic scintillator has been identified as potential self-vetoing structural material in low-background physics experiments. Scintillating component…

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★ 9 cited

Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)

Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro, F. Fischer +28

Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material.…

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★ 10 cited

Development of very-thick transparent GEMs with wavelength-shifting capability for noble element TPCs

M. Kuźniak, D. González-Díaz, P. Amedo +15

A new concept for the simultaneous detection of primary and secondary scintillation in time projection chambers is proposed. Its core element is a type of very-thick GEM structure…

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…

physics.ins-det2020

Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments

I. Abt, Y. Efremenko, M. Febbraro +22

PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is i…

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★ 40 cited

SoLid: A short baseline reactor neutrino experiment

SoLid Collaboration, Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis +59

The SoLid experiment, short for Search for Oscillations with a Lithium-6 detector, is a new generation neutrino experiment which tries to address the key challenges for high precis…

physics.ins-det2019

Performance of the SoLid Reactor Neutrino Detector

Luis Manzanillas

The SoLid collaboration is currently operating a 1.6 tons neutrino detector near the Belgian BR2 reactor, with main goal the observation of the oscillation of electron antineutrino…

physics.ins-det2019

Calibration of the highly segmented SoLid antineutrino detector

Luis Manzanillas

SoLid is a short baseline neutrino experiment, which is currently operating a 1.6 tons detector at the SCKCEN BR2 research reactor in Belgium. SoLid will address the study…

physics.ins-det2019★ 39 cited

Neutrino Physics with an Opaque Detector

A. Cabrera, A. Abusleme, J. dos Anjos +59

In 1956 Reines & Cowan discovered the neutrino using a liquid scintillator detector. The neutrinos interacted with the scintillator, producing light that propagated across transpar…

physics.ins-det2019★ 25 cited

Use of polyethylene naphthalate as a self-vetoing structural material

Y. Efremenko, L. Fajt, M. Febbraro +15

The discovery of scintillation in the blue regime from polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), a commonly used high-performance industrial polyester plastic, has sparked considerable inter…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

Development of a Quality Assurance Process for the SoLid Experiment

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, G. Ban +53

The SoLid experiment has been designed to search for an oscillation pattern induced by a light sterile neutrino state, utilising the BR2 reactor of SCKCEN, in Belgium. The…