A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
This Letter of Intent has been submitted to the Scientific Committee of the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in March 2004. It describes a novel facility at the LNGS to study the double beta decay of 76Ge using an (optionally active) cryogenic fluid shield. The setup will allow to scrutinize with high significance on a short time scale the current evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge using the existing 76Ge diodes from the previous Heidelberg-Moscow and IGEX experiments. An increase in the lifetime limit can be achieved by adding more enriched detectors, remaining thereby background-free up to a few 100 kg-years of exposure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0404039,
title = {A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS},
author = {I. Abt and M. Altmann and A. Bakalyarov and I. Barabanov and C. Bauer and E. Bellotti and S. T. Belyaev and L. Bezrukov and V. Brudanin and C. Buettner and V. P. Bolotsky and A. Caldwell and C. Cattadori and H. Clement and A. Di Vacri and J. Eberth and V. Egorov and G. Grigoriev and V. Gurentsov and K. Gusev and W. Hampel and G. Heusser and W. Hofmann and J. Jochum and M. Junker and J. Kiko and I. V. Kirpichnikov and A. Klimenko and K. T. Knoepfle and V. N. Kornoukhov and M. Laubenstein and V. Lebedev and X. Liu and I. Nemchenok and L. Pandola and V. Sandukovsky and S. Schoenert and S. Scholl and B. Schwingenheuer and H. Simgen and A. Smolnikov and A. Tikhomirov and A. A. Vasenko and S. Vasiliev and D. Weisshaar and E. Yanovich and J. Yurkowski and S. Zhukov and G. Zuzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0404039},
year = {2007}
}
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67 pages, 19 eps figures, 17 tables, gzipped tar file