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Wednesday 29th November 2006
PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR
at 17.00 hrs - Stückelberg Auditorium

The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) for the search of neutrinoless double beta decays of 76 Ge at LNGS line
by Prof. Stefan Schoenert - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg

The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA [1]) for the search of neutrinoless double beta decays of 76Ge at LNGS will operate bare germanium diodes enriched in 76 Ge in an (optional active) cryogenic fluid shield to investigate neutrinoless double beta decay with a sensitivity of T_{1/2} > 2 x 1026~years after an exposure of 100~rm kg x rm years. In this talk, I shall introduce the relevance of neutrinoless double beta decay, the experimental concepts of GERDA, the challenges and techniques to reduce backgrounds to neutrinoless double beta decay, and summarize the status of the project.

Information : http://dpnc.unige.ch/seminaire/annonce.html
Organizer : J.-S. Graulich