The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge — arXiv2

The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge

physics.ins-det

/ Published

Dec 17, 2012

/ Categories

physics.ins-det hep-ex nucl-ex

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/ Authors

GERDA Collaboration, K. -H. Ackermann, M. Agostini, M. Allardt, M. Altmann, E. Andreotti, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata, I. Barabanov, M. Barnabe Heider

and 129 more authors

N. Barros, L. Baudis, C. Bauer, N. Becerici-Schmidt, E. Bellotti, S. Belogurov, S. T. Belyaev, G. Benato, A. Bettini, L. Bezrukov, T. Bode, V. Brudanin

, A. Chernogorov

, F. Cossavella

, A. D`Andragora

, E. V. Demidova

, R. Falkenstein

, A. Gangapshev

, A. Garfagnini

, R. Gonzalez de Orduna

, K. K. Guthikonda

, L. V. Inzhechik

, J. Janicsko Csalty

, I. V. Kirpichnikov

, K. T. Knöpfle

, V. N. Kornoukhov

, K. Kröninger

, M. Laubenstein

, V. I. Lebedev

, A. Lubashevskiy

, B. Lubsandorzhiev

, A. A. Machado

, B. Majorovits

, G. Meierhofer

, L. Niedermeier

, C. O'Shaughnessy

, C. Rossi Alvarez

, B. Schwingenheuer

, M. Shirchenko

, A. A. Vasenko

, D. Zinatulina

/ Abstract

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 Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and has started operation in November 2011. The design, construction and first operational results are described, along with detailed information from the R&D phase.