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Title: Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Journal Article · · Physics of Particles and Nuclei
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  1. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (United States)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland (United States)
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge (United States)

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 {sup 76}Ge. 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 {sup 76}Ge 0νββ-decay. In this paper, the status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, including its design and measurements of properties of the HPGe crystals is presented.

OSTI ID:
22979499
Journal Information:
Physics of Particles and Nuclei, Vol. 48, Issue 1; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2017 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1063-7796
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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