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Title: Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator

Abstract

The MAJORANA Collaboration has completed construction and is now operating an array of high purity Ge detectors searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($$0\nu\beta\beta$$) in $$^{76}$$Ge. The array, known as the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, is comprised of 44 kg of Ge detectors (30 kg enriched to 88% in $$^{76}$$Ge) installed in an ultra-low background compact shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The primary goal of the DEMONSTRATOR is to establish a low-background design that can be scaled to a next-generation tonne-scale experiment. This work reports initial background levels in the $$0\nu\beta\beta$$ region of interest. Also presented are recent physics results leveraging P-type point-contact detectors with sub-keV energy thresholds to search for physics beyond the Standard Model; first results from searches for bosonic dark matter, solar axions, Pauli exclusion principle violation, and electron decay have been published. Finally, this work discusses the proposed tonne-scale $$^{76}$$Ge $$0\nu\beta\beta$$ LEGEND experiment.

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  1. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (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. National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
  6. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States)
  7. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  8. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, München (Germany)
  9. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  10. Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
  11. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
  13. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  14. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); CIEMAT, Madrid (Spain)
  15. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  16. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
  17. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  18. Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
  19. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  20. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  21. Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  22. Tennessee Tech Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
  23. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  24. Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada)
  25. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munchen (Germany); Technische Univ., Munchen (Germany)
  26. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  27. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  28. 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.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1460322
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1763363
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-132159
Journal ID: ISSN 2010-1945; ark:/13030/qt1s18r2rt; TRN: US1901869
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 46; Journal Issue: none; Journal ID: ISSN 2010-1945
Publisher:
World Scientific
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; neutrinoless double-beta decay; germanium; point-contact detectors; neutrinoless double-beta decay, germanium, point-contact detectors

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Gilliss, T., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Chan, Y-D, Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H, Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Dunagan, C., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., O'Shaughnessy, C., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., and Zhu, B. X. Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1142/S2010194518600492.
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Gilliss, T., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Chan, Y-D, Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H, Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Dunagan, C., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., O'Shaughnessy, C., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., & Zhu, B. X. Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010194518600492
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Gilliss, T., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T. S., Chan, Y-D, Christofferson, C. D., Chu, P. -H, Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Dunagan, C., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., Haufe, C. R., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., Lopez, A. M., Martin, R. D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S. J., Mertens, S., Myslik, J., O'Shaughnessy, C., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Poon, A. W. P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., and Zhu, B. X. Thu . "Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010194518600492. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460322.
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@article{osti_1460322,
title = {Recent Results from the Majorana Demonstrator},
author = {Gilliss, T. and Alvis, S. I. and Arnquist, I. J. and Avignone, III, F. T. and Barabash, A. S. and Barton, C. J. and Bertrand, F. E. and Bode, T. and Brudanin, V. and Busch, M. and Buuck, M. and Caldwell, T. S. and Chan, Y-D and Christofferson, C. D. and Chu, P. -H and Cuesta, C. and Detwiler, J. A. and Dunagan, C. and Efremenko, Yu and Ejiri, H. and Elliott, S. R. and Giovanetti, G. K. and Green, M. P. and Gruszko, J. and Guinn, I. S. and Guiseppe, V. E. and Haufe, C. R. and Hehn, L. and Henning, R. and Hoppe, E. W. and Howe, M. A. and Keeter, K. J. and Kidd, M. F. and Konovalov, S. I. and Kouzes, R. T. and Lopez, A. M. and Martin, R. D. and Massarczyk, R. and Meijer, S. J. and Mertens, S. and Myslik, J. and O'Shaughnessy, C. and Othman, G. and Pettus, W. and Poon, A. W. P. and Radford, D. C. and Rager, J. and Reine, A. L. and Rielage, K. and Robertson, R. G. H. and Ruof, N. W. and Shanks, B. and Shirchenko, M. and Suriano, A. M. and Tedeschi, D. 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. and Zhitnikov, I. and Zhu, B. X.},
abstractNote = {The MAJORANA Collaboration has completed construction and is now operating an array of high purity Ge detectors searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in $^{76}$Ge. The array, known as the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, is comprised of 44 kg of Ge detectors (30 kg enriched to 88% in $^{76}$Ge) installed in an ultra-low background compact shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The primary goal of the DEMONSTRATOR is to establish a low-background design that can be scaled to a next-generation tonne-scale experiment. This work reports initial background levels in the $0\nu\beta\beta$ region of interest. Also presented are recent physics results leveraging P-type point-contact detectors with sub-keV energy thresholds to search for physics beyond the Standard Model; first results from searches for bosonic dark matter, solar axions, Pauli exclusion principle violation, and electron decay have been published. Finally, this work discusses the proposed tonne-scale $^{76}$Ge $0\nu\beta\beta$ LEGEND experiment.},
doi = {10.1142/S2010194518600492},
journal = {International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series},
number = none,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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