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Search of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the GERDA Experiment
Giovanni Benato
The Gerda experiment designed to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge has successfully completed the first data collection. No signal excess is found, and a lower…
Low energy neutron background in deep underground laboratories
Andreas Best, Joachim Gorres, Matthias Junker +6
The natural neutron background influences the maximum achievable sensitivity in most deep underground nuclear, astroparticle and double-beta decay physics experiments. Reliable neu…
A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino
Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +95
Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio-purity of the scintilla…
Double-beta decay investigation with highly pure enriched Se for the LUCIFER experiment
J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, P. Benetti +26
The LUCIFER project aims at deploying the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for the investigation of neutrinoless double-beta decay of Se. The matrix which em…
GIOVE - A New Detector Setup for High Sensitivity Germanium Spectroscopy At Shallow Depth
Gerd Heusser, Marc Weber, Janina Hakenmüller +6
We report on the development and construction of the high-purity germanium spectrometer setup GIOVE (Germanium Inner Outer Veto), recently built and now operated at the shallow und…
Reference material for natural radionuclides in glass designed for underground experiments
P. P. Povinec, M. K. Pham, J. Busto +23
A reference material designed for the determination of natural radionuclides in solid samples (glass pellets) is described and the results of certification are presented. The mater…
Measurement of neutrino flux from the primary proton--proton fusion process in the Sun with Borexino detector
O. Y. Smirnov, M. Agostini, S. Appel +94
Neutrino produced in a chain of nuclear reactions in the Sun starting from the fusion of two protons, for the first time has been detected in a real-time detector in spectrometric…
Intrinsic neutron background of nuclear emulsions for directional Dark Matter searches
A. Alexandrov, T. Asada, A. Buonaura +24
Recent developments of the nuclear emulsion technology led to the production of films with nanometric silver halide grains suitable to track low energy nuclear recoils with submicr…
Spectroscopy of geo-neutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data
Borexino collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +99
We report an improved geo-neutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking. The present exposure is protonyr. Assuming a chondrit…
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…
VIP 2: Experimental tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons
A. Pichler, S. Bartalucci, S. Bertolucci +27
Many experiments investigated the violation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) since its discovery in 1925. The VIP (VIolation of the Pauli Principle) experiment tested the PEP…
Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment
E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +95
The low-background, VUV-sensitive 3-inch diameter photomultiplier tube R11410 has been developed by Hamamatsu for dark matter direct detection experiments using liquid xenon as the…
High sensitivity tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle with VIP2
J. Marton, S. Bartalucci, S. Bertolucci +24
The Pauli Exclusion Principle is one of the most fundamental rules of nature and represents a pillar of modern physics. According to many observations the Pauli Exclusion Principle…
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…
Preliminary study of feasibility of an experiment looking for excited state double beta transitions in tin
Soumik Das, S. K. Ghorui, P. K. Raina +7
An attempt to study the feasibility of a new experiment to search for double beta decay in Sn and Sn was carried out by using ultra-low background HPGe detector (24…
Beyond quantum mechanics? Hunting the 'impossible' atoms (Pauli Exclusion Principle violation and spontaneous collapse of the wave function at test)
K. Piscicchia, C. Curceanu, S. Bartalucci +27
The development of mathematically complete and consistent models solving the so-called "measurement problem", strongly renewed the interest of the scientific community for the foun…
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…
Precise measurement of the 222Rn half-life: a probe to monitor the stability of radioactivity
E. Bellotti, C. Broggini, G. Di Carlo +2
We give the results of a study on the 222Rn decay we performed in the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) by detecting the gamma rays from the radon progeny. The motivation was to monitor…