Ultralow Background Double Beta Decay Experiments Using Isotopically Enriched Ge-76

该基金支持使用由Ge制成的大体积半导体探测器研究0> >>衰变，Ge在76Ge中同位素富集到86%。这些探测器被设计成具有来自其成分的超低背景，并将在低背景的地下实验室中运行。这项资助是由南卡罗来纳大学的一位教授和他的研究生与来自明尼苏达大学、萨拉戈萨大学（西班牙）、莫斯科理论和实验物理研究所（ITEP）、巴克桑中微子天文台（亚美尼亚）和太平洋西北实验室的科学家合作完成的。

This grant supports a search for 0> >> decay using large volume semiconductor detectors fabricated from Ge which has been isotopically enriched to 86% in 76Ge. The detectors are designed to have ultra-low backgrounds from their constituents and are to be operated in low backgorund underground laboratories. The effort supported by this grant is that of a University of South Carolina professor and his graduate students, working in collaboration (IGEX) with scientists from the University of Minnesota, University of Zaragoza (Spain), The Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), and The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (Armenia), and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory.