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Investigation of rare nuclear decays with the DAMA set-ups

Rita Bernabei

Dip. di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Rome, Italy

INFN, sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy

E-mail Address: rita.bernabei@roma2.infn.it

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Fabio Cappella

INFN, sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy

E-mail Address: fabio.cappella@roma1.infn.it

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X18430054Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The DAMA project has obtained many competitive or new results in the search for various rare nuclear processes. Most of them have been obtained with the help of many different high purity crystal scintillators which have been measured in the low-background DAMA set-ups located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory of INFN In this paper, the main results will be summarized.

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PACS: 29.40.Mc, 23.40.-s, 23.60.+e, 24.80.+y, 21.65.+f, 29.30.Kv, 21.10.-k, 21.10.Tg, 23.20.Ra, 23.20.-g

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