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Title: Status of the Majorana Demonstrator

Abstract

In this study, the Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the Demonstrator is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. Lastly, the current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion.

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  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  4. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  7. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  8. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  9. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States)
  10. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
  11. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  12. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
  13. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  14. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  15. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  16. Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  17. Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
  18. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  19. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  20. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Org.:
The Majorana Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1248627
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1265253
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-29703
Journal ID: ISSN 2405-6014; PII: S2405601415003612
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396; AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 265-266; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2405-6014
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; neutrinoless double-beta decay; germanium detector; majorana; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Cuesta, C., Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Detwiler, J. A., Efremenko, Yu., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Jasinski, B. R., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., MacMullin, J., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Romero-Romero, E., Schmitt, C., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., Timkin, V., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C. -H., and Yumatov, V. Status of the Majorana Demonstrator. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.06.019.
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Cuesta, C., Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Detwiler, J. A., Efremenko, Yu., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Jasinski, B. R., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., MacMullin, J., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Romero-Romero, E., Schmitt, C., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., Timkin, V., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C. -H., & Yumatov, V. Status of the Majorana Demonstrator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.06.019
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Cuesta, C., Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Detwiler, J. A., Efremenko, Yu., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Jasinski, B. R., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., MacMullin, J., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Romero-Romero, E., Schmitt, C., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., Timkin, V., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C. -H., and Yumatov, V. Thu . "Status of the Majorana Demonstrator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.06.019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1248627.
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@article{osti_1248627,
title = {Status of the Majorana Demonstrator},
author = {Cuesta, C. and Abgrall, N. and Arnquist, I. J. and Avignone, III, F. T. and Barabash, A. S. and Bertrand, F. E. and Brudanin, V. and Busch, M. and Buuck, M. and Byram, D. and Caldwell, A. S. and Chan, Y. -D. and Christofferson, C. D. and Detwiler, J. A. and Efremenko, Yu. and Ejiri, H. and Elliott, S. R. and Galindo-Uribarri, A. and Giovanetti, G. K. and Goett, J. and Green, M. P. and Gruszko, J. and Guinn, I. S. and Guiseppe, V. E. and Henning, R. and Hoppe, E. W. and Howard, S. and Howe, M. A. and Jasinski, B. R. and Keeter, K. J. and Kidd, M. F. and Konovalov, S. I. and Kouzes, R. T. and LaFerriere, B. D. and Leon, J. and MacMullin, J. and Martin, R. D. and Meijer, S. J. and Mertens, S. and Orrell, J. L. and O'Shaughnessy, C. and Overman, N. R. and Poon, A. W. P. and Radford, D. C. and Rager, J. and Rielage, K. and Robertson, R. G. H. and Romero-Romero, E. and Schmitt, C. and Shanks, B. and Shirchenko, M. and Snyder, N. and Suriano, A. M. and Tedeschi, D. and Timkin, V. and Trimble, J. E. and Varner, R. L. and Vasilyev, S. and Vetter, K. and Vorren, K. and White, B. R. and Wilkerson, J. F. and Wiseman, C. and Xu, W. and Yakushev, E. and Yu, C. -H. and Yumatov, V.},
abstractNote = {In this study, the Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the Demonstrator is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. Lastly, the current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.06.019},
journal = {Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings},
number = C,
volume = 265-266,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment
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