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Title: Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Abstract

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $$^{76}$$Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modules of natural and $$^{76}$$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, operating at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Commissioning of the experiment began in June 2015, followed by data production with the full detector array in August 2016. The ultra-low background and record energy resolution achieved by the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR enable a sensitive neutrinoless double-beta decay search, as well as additional searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss the design elements that enable these searches, along with the latest results, focusing on the neutrinoless double-beta decay search. I will also discuss the current status and the future plans of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, as well as the plans for a future tonne-scale $$^{76}$$Ge experiment.

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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
  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” Inst. 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-Inst. für Physik, München (Germany)
  9. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD (United States)
  10. Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna (Russian Federation)
  11. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  12. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  13. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  14. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  15. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  16. Osaka Univ. (Japan)
  17. Princeton Univ., 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. 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 (United States)
  25. Max-Planck-Inst. für Physik, München (Germany); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany). Dept. Physik
  26. Queen’s Univ., Kingston, ON, (Canada)
  27. 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); National Science Foundation (NSF); Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1580357
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
PoS - Proceedings of Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 340; Conference: 39. International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2018), Seoul (Korea), 4-11 Jul 2018; Journal ID: ISSN 1824-8039
Publisher:
SISSA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Myslik, Jordan, Alvis, S.I., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Barton, C.J., Bertrand, F.E., Bode, T., Bos, B., 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., Haufe, C.R., Hegedus, R.J., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hervas Aguilar, D., 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., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Piliounis, A., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N.W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vasundhara, ., 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., 2019. Web. doi:10.22323/1.340.0635.
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Myslik, Jordan, Alvis, S.I., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Barton, C.J., Bertrand, F.E., Bode, T., Bos, B., 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., Haufe, C.R., Hegedus, R.J., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hervas Aguilar, D., 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., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Piliounis, A., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N.W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vasundhara, ., 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/10.22323/1.340.0635
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Myslik, Jordan, Alvis, S.I., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Barton, C.J., Bertrand, F.E., Bode, T., Bos, B., 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., Haufe, C.R., Hegedus, R.J., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hervas Aguilar, D., 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., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Piliounis, A., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N.W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vasundhara, ., White, B.R., Wilkerson, J.F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V., Zhitnikov, I., and Zhu, B. X. Fri . "Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR". United States. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.340.0635. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1580357.
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@article{osti_1580357,
title = {Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR},
author = {Myslik, Jordan 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 Bos, B. 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 Haufe, C.R. and Hegedus, R.J. and Hehn, L. and Henning, R. and Hervas Aguilar, D. 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 Othman, G. and Pettus, W. and Piliounis, A. and Poon, A.W.P. and Radford, D. C. and Rager, J. and Reine, A. L. and Rielage, K. and Ruof, N.W. and Shanks, B. and Shirchenko, M. and Tedeschi, D. and Varner, R. L. and Vasilyev, S. and Vasundhara, . 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 decay in $^{76}$Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modules of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, operating at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Commissioning of the experiment began in June 2015, followed by data production with the full detector array in August 2016. The ultra-low background and record energy resolution achieved by the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR enable a sensitive neutrinoless double-beta decay search, as well as additional searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss the design elements that enable these searches, along with the latest results, focusing on the neutrinoless double-beta decay search. I will also discuss the current status and the future plans of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, as well as the plans for a future tonne-scale $^{76}$Ge experiment.},
doi = {10.22323/1.340.0635},
journal = {PoS - Proceedings of Science},
number = ,
volume = 340,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Aug 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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