GERDA LOI (pdf)
Submitted to the LNGS Scientific Committee in March 2004

GERDA Proposal 21 Sept. 2004 (pdf)

printed in journals

1. GERDA: A new Ge-76 double β decay experiment at Gran Sasso,
H. Simgen,
Nucl. Phys. B143 (2005) 567.

2. The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) for the search of neutrinoless ββ decays of ⁷⁶Ge at LNGS, S. Schönert, I. Abt, M. Altmann, A.M. Bakalyarov, I. Barabanov, C. Bauer, M. Bauer, E. Bellotti, S. Belogurov, S.T. Belyaev, A. Bettini, L. Bezrukov, V. Brudanin, C. Buttner, V.P. Bolotsky, A. Caldwell, C. Cattadori, M.V. Chirchenko, O. Chkvorets, H. Clement, E. Demidova, A. Di Vacri, J. Eberth, V. Egorov, E. Farnea, A. Gangapshev, G.Y. Grigoriev, V. Gurentsov, K. Gusev, W. Hampel, G. Heusser, W. Hofmann, L.V. Inzhechik, J. Jochum, M. Junker, S. Katulina, J. Kiko, I.V. Kirpichnikov, A. Klimenko, K.T. Knopfle, O. Kochetov, V.N. Kornoukhov, R. Kotthaus, V. Kusminov, M. Laubenstein, V.I. Lebedev, X. Liu, H.-G. Moser, I. Nemchenok, L. Pandola, P. Peiffer, R.H. Richter, K. Rottler, C.R. Alvarez, V. Sandukovsky, S. Schonert, S. Scholl, J. Schreiner, B. Schwingenheuer, H. Simgen, A. Smolnikov, A.V. Tikhomirov, C. Tomei, C.A. Ur, A.A. Vasenko, S. Vasiliev, D. Weisshaar, M. Wojcik, E. Yanovich, J. Yurkowski, S.V. Zhukov, and G. Zuzel, Nucl. Phys. B145 (2005) 242.

3. Low ²²²Rn nitrogen gas generator for ultra-low background counting systems,
M. Wojcik and G. Zuzel,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A539 (2005) 427.

4. Operation of bare HP-Germanium detectors in liquid argon (LAr), P. Peiffer, D. Motta, S. Schoenert, and H. Simgen, Nucl. Phys. B143 (2005) 511.

5. Terra Incognita I,
M. Lindner and S. Schonert, Nucl. Phys. B145 (2005) 361.

6. The ⁷⁶Ge double-β decay experiment GERDA at LNGS,
M. Wojcik,
Acta Physica Polonica B37 (2006) 1923.

7. Cosmogenic activation of germanium and its reduction for low background experiments, S. Belogurov, I. Barabanov, L. Bezrukov, A. Denisov, V. Kornoukhov, and N. Sobolevsky, Nucl. Instr. Methods B251 (2006) 115.

8. Geant4 and its validation,
K. Amako, S. Guatelli, V. Ivanchencko, M. Maire, B. Mascialino, K. Murakami, L. Pandola, S. Parlati, M.G. Pia, M. Piergentili, T. Sasaki, and L. Urban,
Nucl. Phys. B150 (2006) 44.

9. GERmanium detector array, GERDA,
X. Liu,
Physica Scripta 2006 (2006) 46.

10. Investigation of double-β decay at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP, Moscow), O.Ya. Zeldovich and I.V. Kirpichnikov, Phys. Atom. Nucl. 69 (2006) 1657.

11. Low-noise amplification of γ-ray detector signals in hostile environments,
A. Pullia, F. Zocca, and C. Cattadori,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 53 (2006) 1744.

12. MaGe: a Monte Carlo framework for the Gerda and Majorana double β decay experiments,
M. Bauer, S. Belogurov, Y.D. Chan, M. Descovich, J. Detwiler, M. Di Marco, B. Fujikawa, D. Franco, V. Gehman, R. Henning, K. Hudek, R. Johnson, D. Jordan, K. Kazkaz, A. Klimenko, M. Knapp, K. Kroeninger, K. Lesko, X. Liu, M. Marino, A. Mokhtarani, L. Pandola, M. Perry, A. Poon, D. Radford, C. Tomei, and C. Tull,
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 39 (2006) 1.

13. MUCR42BETA: muon capture rates for double-β decay,
V. Egorov, V. Brudanin, K. Gromov, A. Klinskih, M. Shirchenko, Ts. Vylov, I. Yutlandov, D. Zinatulina, C. Briancon, C. Petitjean, and O.

14. New requirements on enriched isotopes for experiments studying neutrinoless double β-decay (GERDA experiment),
A.N. Shubin, A.N. Gilev, D.B. Kononov, A.A. Mis’kov, E.A. Nikitina, G.M. Skorynin, I.R. Barabanov, L.B. Bezrukov, A.N. Denisov, N.M. Sobolevskii, S.G. Belogurov, V.N. Kornoukhov, M. Altman, and A. Caldwell,
Atomic Energy 101 (2006) 588.

15. Signal discovery in sparse spectra: a bayesian analysis,
A. Caldwell and K. Kroninger,
Phys. Rev. D 74 (2006) 92003.

16. Status and Perspectives of Neutrino Physics, A. Bettini,
Nucl. Phys. B151 (2006) 270.

17. Status of the Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) for the search of neutrinoless ββ decays of ⁷⁶Ge at LNGS,
S. Schönert,
Prog. Part. and Nucl. Phys. 57 (2006) 241.

18. Status of the Germanium detector array (GERDA) in the search of neutrinoless ββ decays of ⁷⁶Ge at LNGS,
S. Schönert, I. Abt, M. Altmann, A.M. Bakalyarov, I. Barabanov, C. Bauer, M. Bauer, E. Bellotti, S. Belogurov, S.T. Belyaev, A. Bettini, L. Bezrukov, V. Brudanin, V.P. Bolotsky, A. Caldwell, C. Cattadori, M.V. Chirchenko, O. Chkvorets, E. Demidova, A. Di Vacri, J. Eberth, V. Egorov, E. Farnea, A. Gangapshev, J. Gasparro, P. Grabmayr, G.Y. Grigoriev, V. Gurentsov, K. Gusev, W. Hampel, G. Heusser, M. Heisel, W. Hofmann, M. Hult, L.V. Inzhechik, J. Jochum, M. Junker, S. Katulina, J. Kiko, I.V. Kirpichnikov, A. Klimenko, M. Knapp, K.T. Knopfle, O. Kochetov, V.N. Kornoukhov, K. Kroninger, V.V. Kuzminov, M. Laubenstein, V.I. Lebedev, X. Liu, B. Majorovits, G. Marissens, I. Nemchenok, L. Pandola, P. Peiffer, A. Pullia, C.R. Alvarez, V. Sandukovsky, S. Scholl, J. Schreiner, U. Schwan, B. Schwingenheuer, H. Simgen, A. Smolnikov, F. Stelzer, A.V. Tikhomirov, C. Tomei, C.A. Ur, A.A. Vasenko, S. Vasiliev, D. WeiBhaar, M. Wojcik, E. Yanovich, J. Yurkowski, S.V. Zhukov, F. Zocca, and G. Zuzel,
Phys. Atom. Nucl. 69 (2006) 2101.

19. Towards pulse shape analysis for the GERDA experiment,
K. Kröninger,
Prog. Part. and Nucl. Phys. 57 (2006) 263.

20. Ultrapure gases for GERDA, H. Simgen,
Prog. Part. and Nucl. Phys. 57 (2006) 266.

Publications in Journals

21. Background reduction in neutrinoless double β decay experiments using segmented detectors - A Monte Carlo study for the GERDA setup,
I. Abt, M. Altmann, A. Caldwell, K. Kroninger, X. Liu, B. Majorovits, L. Pandola, and C. Tomei, Nucl. Instr. Methods A570 (2007) 479.

22. Background reduction in neutrinoless double β decay experiments using segmented detectors-A Monte Carlo study for the GERDA setup,
K. Kröninger, I. Abt, M. Altmann, A. Caldwell, X. Liu, B. Majorovits, L. Pandola, and C. Tomei, Nucl. Instr. Methods A570 (2007) 479.

23. Characterization of the first true coaxial 18-fold segmented n-type prototype HPGe detector for the GERDA project, I. Abt, A. Caldwell, D. Gutknecht, K. Kröninger, M. Lampert, X. Liu, B. Majorovits, D. Quirion, F. Stelzer, and P. Wendling,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A577 (2007) 574.

24. Feasibility study of the observation of the neutrino accompanied double beta-decay of ⁷⁶Ge to the 0⁺ - excited state of ⁷⁶Se using segmented germanium detectors,
K. Kröninger, L. Pandola, and V. I. Tretyak,
Ukr. J. of Physics52 (2007) 1036.

25. GERDA. Germanium detector array. Search for neutrino-less ββ Decay of ⁷⁶Ge,
A. Bettini,
Nucl. Phys. B168 (2007) 67.

26. Identification of photons in double beta-decay experiments using segmented germanium detectors -studies with a GERDA Phase II prototype detector,
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kröninger, J. Liu, X. Liu, and B. Majorovits,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A583 (2007) 332.

27. Monte Carlo evaluation of the muon-induced background in the GERDA double β decay experiment,
L. Pandola, M. Bauer, K. Kröninger, X. Liu, C. Tomei, S. Belogurov, D. Franco, A. Klimenko, and M. Knapp,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A570 (2007) 149.

28. Pulse shapes from electron and photon induced events in segmented high-purity germanium detectors,
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kröninger, J. Liu, X. Liu, and B. Majorovits,
Eur. Phys. J. C52 (2007) 19.

29. Measurements of extremely low radioactivity levels in stainless steel for GERDA,
W. Maneschg, M. Laubenstein, D. Budjas, W. Hampel, G. Heusser, K.T. Knopfle, B. Schwingenheuer, and H. Simgen,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A593 (2008) 448.

30. Neutron-and muon-induced background in underground physics experiments,
V.A. Kudryavtsev, L. Pandola, and V. Tomasello,
Eur. Phys. J. A36 (2008) 171.

31. Neutron interactions as seen by a segmented germanium detector,
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kroninger, J. Liu, X. Liu, and B. Majorovits,
Eur. Phys. J. A36 (2008) 139.

32. Pulse shape analysis of scintillation signals from pure and xenon-doped liquid argon for radioactive background identification,
P. Peiffer, T. Pollmann, S. Schönert, A. Smolnikov, and S. Vasiliev,
J. of Instrumentation 3 (2008) p08007.

33. Test of pulse shape analysis using single Compton scattering events,
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, K. Kroninger, J. Liu, X. Liu, and B. Majorovits,
Eur. Phys. J. C54 (2008) 425.

34. Fast scintillation light from CaMoO4 crystals,
A.V. Veresnikova, B.K. Lubsandorzhiev, I.R. Barabanov, P. Grabmayr, D. Greiner, J. Jochum, M. Knapp, C. Osswald, R.V. Poleshuk, F. Ritter, B.A.M. Shaibonov, Y.E. Vyatchin, and G. Meierhofer,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A603 (2009) 529.

35. The GERDA muon veto Cherenkov detector,
M. Knapp, P. Grabmayr, J. Jochum, B. Lubsandorzhiev, G. Meierhofer, F. Ritter, and B. Shaibonov, Nucl. Instr. Methods A610 (2009) 280.

36. Neutron capture cross sections of Ge-74, Ge-76, and As-75 at 25 keV,
J. Marganiec, I. Dillmann, C.D. Pardo, F. Kappeler, R. Reifarth, R. Gallino, M. Pignatari, and P. Grabmayr,
Phys. Rev. C 79 (2009) 065802.

37. Nuclear structure relevant to neutrinoless double β decay: The valence protons in Ge-76 and Se-76,
B.P. Kay, J.P. Schiffer, S.J. Freeman, T. Adachi, J.A. Clark, C.M. Deibel, H. Fujita, Y. Fujita, P. Grabmayr, K. Hatanaka, D. Ishikawa, H. Matsubara, Y. Meada, H. Okamura, K.E. Rehm, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimizu, H. Shimoda, K. Suda, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, and C. Wrede,
Phys. Rev. C 79 (2009) 021301.

38. Operation of an 18-fold segmented n-type HPGe detector in liquid nitrogen,
I. Abt, A. Caldwell, D. Gutknecht, J. Janicsko-Csathy, M. Lampert, D. Lenz, X. Liu, J. Liu, B. Majorovits, D. Quirion, J. Schubert, F. Stelzer, and P. Wendling,
J. Instrum.4 (2009) p11008.

39. Pulse shape discrimination studies with a Broad-Energy Germanium detector for signal identification and background suppression in the GERDA double β decay experiment,
D. Budjas, M.B. Heider, O. Chkvorets, N. Khanbekov, and S. Schonert,
J. Instrum.4 (2009) p10007.

40. Shielding of the GERDA experiment against external γ background,
I. Barabanov, L. Bezrukov, E. Demidova, V. Gurentsov, S. Kianovsky, K.T. Knopfle, V. Kornouhkov, B. Schwingenheuer, and A. Vasenko,
Nucl. Instr. Methods A606 (2009) 790.

41. Thermal neutron capture cross-section of Ge-76,
G. Meierhofer, P. Kudejova, L.