Acta Physica Polonica B
Vol. 41, No. 7, July 2010, page 1469
G. Zuzel (GERDA Collaboration)
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Abstract
The GERDA experiment has been designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. Observation of such a process would imply that the neutrino is a Majorana particle, and that the lepton number is not conserved. Establishing the half-life of the decay would also allow to estimate the effective neutrino mass. The installation of the experiment in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory of INFN/Italy has been recently completed. Deployment of the first non-enriched Ge detectors is scheduled for spring 2010.