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The present generation of double-beta experiments is limited by two main backgrounds: surface alpha interactions and Compton interactions from high-energy gamma-ray lines. Using the detector developments realized for the EDELWEISS Dark Matter experiment, we propose a strategy to eliminate completely the alpha radioactivity background and to reduce by nearly two orders of magnitude the Compton background. This would lead to a nearly background-free experiment, and an effective neutrino mass sensitivity of 15 meV achieved in three years with a one-ton array of ionisation-heat 76Ge detectors. In a first stage, the existence of the double-beta 0 -υ Heidelberg candidate could be tested in a few years in the EDELWEISS-II cryostat.
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Chardin, G., Broniatowski, A., Censier, B., Deschamps, H., Fesquet, M., Jin, Y. (2004). Towards a Background-Free ββ-Decay Experiment Using the EDELWEISS Cryogenic Ge Detectors. In: Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H.V. (eds) Beyond the Desert 2003. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18534-2_23
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