22.11.2024"Searches for new physics with GERDA" on EPJ-C journal's cover & first MONUMENT paper published

The paper, containing significant contributions by our group's former PhD student Yannick Müller, describes the search for full-energy depositions from bosonic keV-scale dark matter candidates of masses between 65 and 1021 keV using data from 105.5 kg-years of GERDA's Phase II exposure.

In the same EPJ-C issue, the first paper from MONUMENT was published, describing MONUMENT's experimental setup, utilized to measure ordinary muon capture (OMC) on isotopes relevant to neutrinoless double-beta decay. The paper also features data of OMC on ⁷⁶Se and ¹³⁶Ba, the isotopes critical for searches with the next-generation experiments like LEGEND and nEXO, using  ⁷⁶Ge and ¹³⁶Xe targets. The analysis and identification of lines in the ¹³⁶Ba data, highlighted in the paper, were part of the PhD work of our group member  Gabriela Araujo.