Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2015

OSTI ID:1338511

Guinn, I. ^[1]; Abgrall, N. ^[2]; Bertrand, F. E. ^[3]; Efremenko, Yuri ^[4]; Galindo-Uribarri, A ^[3]; Green, M. P. ^[3]; Radford, D. C. ^[3]; Romero-Romero, E. ^[5]; Varner, R. L. ^[3]; White, B. R. ^[3]; Wilkerson, J. F. ^[6]; Yu, C. -H. ^[3]; Majorana, ^[7]

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1. University of Washington, Seattle
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
4. University of Tennessee (UTK) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
5. UTK/ORNL
6. UNC/Triangle Univ. Nucl. Lab, Durham, NC/ORNL
7. MAJORANA Collaboration

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a planned 40 kg array of Germanium detectors intended to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a tonne-scale experiment that will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0 nu beta beta) in Ge-76. Such an experiment would require backgrounds of less than 1 count/tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest around the 2039 keV Q-value of the beta beta decay. Designing low-noise electronics, which must be placed in close proximity to the detectors, presents a challenge to reaching this background target. This paper will discuss the MAJORANA collaboration's solutions to some of these challenges.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1338511
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English