Abstract
An array of eight high purity germanium crystals is operated in the Gotthard road tunnel. Based on a data sample of 6.2 kg years, limits on different modes of double beta decay in 76Ge are obtained. In particular, the half-life for the neutrinoless double beta decay to the ground state of 76Se is greater than 2.0*1023 (3.4*1023) years at the 90% (68%) confidence level. A low energy sample of 51.6 kg days was used to set limits on cold dark matter. In particular, Dirac neutrinos with masses between 10 and 2400 GeV are ruled out. A new lower limit on the half-life for the decay of the electron into weakly interacting particles of 1.9*1023 years at 68% confidence level was also derived.
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