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Line 3: The GERmanium Detector Array ('''GERDA''') experiment is searching for [[neutrinoless double beta decay]](0vββ) in Ge-76 at the underground [[Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso]] (LNGS). [[Neutrinoless beta decay]] is expected to be a very rare process if possible. The collocation predicts less than one event each year per kilogram of material. Background shielding is required to detect any rare decays. The experiment uses high purity enriched [[Germanium\|Ge]] crystal [[diodes]] as a decay source and [[particle detector]]. The detectors from the HdM and Igex experiments were reprocessed and used in GERDA. The detector array is suspended in a [[liquid [[argon]] [[cryostat]] lined with copper and surrounded by an ultra-pure water tank. [[Photomultiplier\|PMTs]] in the water tank and plastic [[scintillators]] above detect and exclude background [[muons]]. == Results ==

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