학술논문
Upgrade for Phase II of the Gerda experiment
Document Type
article
Author
GERDA Collaboration; M. Agostini; A. M. Bakalyarov; M. Balata; I. Barabanov; L. Baudis; C. Bauer; E. Bellotti; S. Belogurov; S. T. Belyaev; G. Benato; A. Bettini; L. Bezrukov; T. Bode; D. Borowicz; V. Brudanin; R. Brugnera; A. Caldwell; C. Cattadori; A. Chernogorov; V. D’Andrea; E. V. Demidova; N. Di Marco; A. Domula; E. Doroshkevich; V. Egorov; R. Falkenstein; N. Frodyma; A. Gangapshev; A. Garfagnini; P. Grabmayr; V. Gurentsov; K. Gusev; J. Hakenmüller; A. Hegai; M. Heisel; S. Hemmer; R. Hiller; W. Hofmann; M. Hult; L. V. Inzhechik; L. Ioannucci; J. Janicskó Csáthy; J. Jochum; M. Junker; V. Kazalov; Y. Kermaïdic; T. Kihm; I. V. Kirpichnikov; A. Kirsch; A. Kish; A. Klimenko; R. Kneißl; K. T. Knöpfle; O. Kochetov; V. N. Kornoukhov; V. V. Kuzminov; M. Laubenstein; A. Lazzaro; V. I. Lebedev; B. Lehnert; M. Lindner; I. Lippi; A. Lubashevskiy; B. Lubsandorzhiev; G. Lutter; C. Macolino; B. Majorovits; W. Maneschg; E. Medinaceli; M. Miloradovic; R. Mingazheva; M. Misiaszek; P. Moseev; I. Nemchenok; S. Nisi; K. Panas; L. Pandola; K. Pelczar; A. Pullia; C. Ransom; S. Riboldi; N. Rumyantseva; C. Sada; F. Salamida; M. Salathe; C. Schmitt; B. Schneider; S. Schönert; J. Schreiner; A-K. Schütz; O. Schulz; B. Schwingenheuer; O. Selivanenko; E. Shevchik; M. Shirchenko; H. Simgen; A. Smolnikov; L. Stanco; L. Vanhoefer; A. A. Vasenko; A. Veresnikova; K. von Sturm; V. Wagner; A. Wegmann; T. Wester; C. Wiesinger; M. Wojcik; E. Yanovich; I. Zhitnikov; S. V. Zhukov; D. Zinatulina; A. J. Zsigmond; K. Zuber; G. Zuzel
Source
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol 78, Iss 5, Pp 1-30 (2018)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
1434-6052
Abstract
Abstract The Gerda collaboration is performing a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{76}\hbox {Ge}$$ 76Ge at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The upgrade of the Gerda experiment from Phase I to Phase II has been concluded in December 2015. The first Phase II data release shows that the goal to suppress the background by one order of magnitude compared to Phase I has been achieved. Gerda is thus the first experiment that will remain “background-free” up to its design exposure ($$\hbox {100 kg}~\hbox {year}$$ 100 kgyear ). It will reach thereby a half-life sensitivity of more than $$10^{26}$$ 1026 year within 3 years of data collection. This paper describes in detail the modifications and improvements of the experimental setup for Phase II and discusses the performance of individual detector components.