%0 Journal Article
%T A New 76Ge Double Beta Decay Experiment at LNGS
%A I. Abt
%A M. Altmann
%A A. Bakalyarov
%A I. Barabanov
%A C. Bauer
%A E. Bellotti
%A S. T. Belyaev
%A L. Bezrukov
%A V. Brudanin
%A C. Buettner
%A V. P. Bolotsky
%A A. Caldwell
%A C. Cattadori
%A H. Clement
%A A. Di Vacri
%A J. Eberth
%A V. Egorov
%A G. Grigoriev
%A V. Gurentsov
%A K. Gusev
%A W. Hampel
%A G. Heusser
%A W. Hofmann
%A J. Jochum
%A M. Junker
%A J. Kiko
%A I. V. Kirpichnikov
%A A. Klimenko
%A K. T. Knoepfle
%A V. N. Kornoukhov
%A M. Laubenstein
%A V. Lebedev
%A X. Liu
%A I. Nemchenok
%A L. Pandola
%A V. Sandukovsky
%A S. Schoenert
%A S. Scholl
%A B. Schwingenheuer
%A H. Simgen
%A A. Smolnikov
%A A. Tikhomirov
%A A. A. Vasenko
%A S. Vasiliev
%A D. Weisshaar
%A E. Yanovich
%A J. Yurkowski
%A S. Zhukov
%A G. Zuzel
%J Physics
%D 2004
%I arXiv
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0404039v1