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Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Revisited — Reply to a Comment

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Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics

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After our publication of the observed first indication for neutrinoless double beta decay (on a confidence level of 97.4% with Bayes and 99.8% with the Feldman-Cousins method) in [1], a number of papers have been published [2–4,11–19,21–62,64] discussing its implications. In addition during this conference a ‘Comment’ has been put to the Internet February 7, 2002, [65] (version 1) critisizing our publication [1]. (Meanwhile six of the nine claims in the’Comment’ have been withdrawn [65] (version 3).) Because of the large interest in our paper [1] we feel it to be important to show in this note that none of the claims in [65] is justified.

We then show in the second part of this paper in some detail, that the result obtained in [1] is in perfect agreement with all other existing double beta experiments, including the other Germanium experiments, in particular the most sensitive experiment with natural germanium by D. Caldwell et al. [63].

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Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H.V., Dietz, A., Krivosheina, I.V. (2002). Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Revisited — Reply to a Comment. In: Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H.V., Viollier, R.D. (eds) Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55739-2_37

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