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The GERmanium Detector Array ('''GERDA'''), is a experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay(0vββ) in Ge-76 at the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS).

It uses high purity enriched Ge crystal diodes as decay source and particle detector. The detectors from the HdM and Igex experiments were reprocessed and used in GERDA. The detector array is suspended by strings in a liquid argon cryostat surrounded by ultra-pure water. PMTs in the water tank and plastic scintillators above detect and exclude background muons.

== Results ==