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Title: Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

Abstract

The Majorana Demonstrator is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and 76Ge-enriched germanium p-type point contact detectors totaling 44.1 kg, located at the 4850 level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The Demonstrator uses custom high voltage cables to bias the detectors, as well as custom signal cables and connectors to read out the charge deposited at the point contact of each detector. These low-mass cables and connectors must meet stringent radio purity requirements while being subjected to thermal and mechanical stress. A number of issues have been identified with the currently installed cables and connectors. An improved set of cables and connectors for the Majorana Demonstrator are being developed with the aim of increasing their overall reliability and connectivity. In conclusion, we will discuss some of the issues encountered with the current cables and connectors as well as our improved designs and their initial performance.

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  1. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  4. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  5. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  6. National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
  7. Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD (United States)
  8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  9. Max-Planck- Institut fur Physik, Munchen (Germany)
  10. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  11. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (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. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  16. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
  17. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  18. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  19. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  20. Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  21. Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
  22. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  23. Queen's Univ. Kingston, ON (Canada)
  24. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munchen (Germany); Technische Univ., Munchen (Germany)
  25. 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)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1460331
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Physics. Conference Series
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1342; Conference: XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics , Sudbury, ON (Canada), 24-28 Jun 2017; Related Information: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.03459; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Haufe, C. R., Reine, A. L., Abgrall, N., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Bradley, A. W., 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., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., 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., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., and Zhu, B. X. Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012129.
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Haufe, C. R., Reine, A. L., Abgrall, N., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Bradley, A. W., 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., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., 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., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., & Zhu, B. X. Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012129
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Haufe, C. R., Reine, A. L., Abgrall, N., Alvis, S. I., Arnquist, I. J., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Barton, C. J., Bertrand, F. E., Bode, T., Bradley, A. W., 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., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G. K., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I. S., Guiseppe, V. E., 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., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ruof, N. W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A. M., Tedeschi, D., 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., Zhitnikov, I., and Zhu, B. X. Fri . "Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012129. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1460331.
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@article{osti_1460331,
title = {Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator},
author = {Haufe, C. R. and Reine, A. L. and Abgrall, N. 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 Bradley, A. W. 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 Gilliss, T. and Giovanetti, G. K. and Green, M. P. and Gruszko, J. and Guinn, I. S. and Guiseppe, V. E. 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 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 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. and Zhitnikov, I. and Zhu, B. X.},
abstractNote = {The Majorana Demonstrator is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and 76Ge-enriched germanium p-type point contact detectors totaling 44.1 kg, located at the 4850 level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The Demonstrator uses custom high voltage cables to bias the detectors, as well as custom signal cables and connectors to read out the charge deposited at the point contact of each detector. These low-mass cables and connectors must meet stringent radio purity requirements while being subjected to thermal and mechanical stress. A number of issues have been identified with the currently installed cables and connectors. An improved set of cables and connectors for the Majorana Demonstrator are being developed with the aim of increasing their overall reliability and connectivity. In conclusion, we will discuss some of the issues encountered with the current cables and connectors as well as our improved designs and their initial performance.},
doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012129},
journal = {Journal of Physics. Conference Series},
number = ,
volume = 1342,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the Majorana Demonstrator
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