The funny title is from V. Tretyak [Tre11]. He excellently reviewed many evidences or claims for double beta decay without neutrinos since the 50’s, results which were never confirmed. The most recent claim in 2002 has been by Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, using data from the Heidelberg-Moscow collaboration [Kla02]; the paper has been signed only by part of the collaboration (as in some previous announcements) which is not a good sign. The results of the GERDA experiment in 2013 have definitively buried the signal [Ago13].
Reference
| Author(s) | Title | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kla02 | H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus et al. | Evidence for neutrinoless double beta decay | Mod. Phys. Lett. A16 (2001) 2409; arXiv:hep-ph/0201231 | ||
| Tre11 | V.I. Tretyak | False starts in history of searches for double beta decay, or discoverless double beta decay | arXiv:1112.4183, AIP Conf. Proc. 1417 (2011) 129 | ||
| Ago13 | M. Agostini et al., GERDA collaboration | Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I | Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 122503, arXiv:1307.4720 |