Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Vasilyev, S.; Abgrall, N.; Avignone Iii, Frank; Bertrand Jr, Fred E.; Galindo-Uribarri, Alfredo {nmn}; Green, Matthew P.; Radford, David C.; Romero Romero, Elisa; Wilkerson, John F.; Yu, Chang-Hong; Zhitnikov, I

doi:10.1134/S1063779616060253

Title: Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779616060253· OSTI ID:1481664

Vasilyev, S. ^[1]; Abgrall, N. ^[2]; Avignone Iii, Frank ^[3]; Bertrand Jr, Fred E. ^[3];

^[3]; Green, Matthew P. ^[3];

^[3]; Romero Romero, Elisa ^[3]; Wilkerson, John F. ^[3];

^[3]; Zhitnikov, I ^[1]

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
ORNL

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultralow background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ-decay) in 76Ge. The goal of the experiment is to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge 0νββ-decay. In this paper, the status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, including its design and measurements of properties of the HPGe crystals is presented.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1481664

Resource Relation:: Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: International Workshop on Prospects of Particle Physics - Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics - Valday, , Russia - 2/1/2015 10:00:00 AM-2/8/2015 10:00:00 AM

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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