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Title: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR for 0νββ: Current status and future plans

Abstract

The Majorana Demonstrator will search for neutrinoless-double-beta decay (0νββ) in 76Ge, while establishing the feasibility of a future tonne-scale germanium-based 0νββ experiment, and performing searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment, currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD, will consist of a pair of modular high-purity germanium detector arrays housed inside of a compact copper, lead, and polyethylene shield. Through a combination of strict materials qualifications and assay, low-background design, and powerful background rejection techniques, the Demonstrator aims to achieve a background rate in the 0νββ region of interest (ROI) of no more than 3 counts in the 0νββ-decay ROI per tonne of target isotope per year (cnts/(ROI-t-y)). The current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion.

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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  5. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russia)
  6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  7. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  8. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triange 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. North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  12. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  13. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  14. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
  15. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  16. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
  17. Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
  18. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)
  19. Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  20. Tennessee Tech Univ., Cookeville, TN (United States)
  21. Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai (China)
  22. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  23. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid CIty, SD (United States); Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  24. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States)
  25. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  26. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab., Durham, NC (United States); Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1202400
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics Procedia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 61; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1875-3892
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; neutrinoless double beta decay; germanium detector; majorana

Citation Formats

Green, M. P., Abgrall, N., Aguayo, E., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Boswell, M., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Combs, D. C., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Doe, P. J., Efremenko, Yu., Egorov, V., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Fast, J. E., Finnerty, P., Fraenkle, F. M., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Gruszko, J., Guiseppe, V. E., Gusev, K., Hallin, A. L., Hazama, R., Hegai, A., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., Leviner, L. E., Loach, J. C., MacMullin, J., MacMullin, S., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S., Mertens, S., Nomachi, M., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Phillips, II, D. G., Poon, A. W.P., Pushkin, K., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G.H., Romero-Romero, E., Ronquest, M. C., Schubert, A. G., Shanks, B., Shima, T., Shirchenko, M., Snavely, K. J., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Thompson, J., Timkin, V., Tornow, W., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Young, A. R., Yu, C. -H., and Yumatov, V. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR for 0νββ: Current status and future plans. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.038.
Green, M. P., Abgrall, N., Aguayo, E., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Boswell, M., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Combs, D. C., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Doe, P. J., Efremenko, Yu., Egorov, V., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Fast, J. E., Finnerty, P., Fraenkle, F. M., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Gruszko, J., Guiseppe, V. E., Gusev, K., Hallin, A. L., Hazama, R., Hegai, A., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., Leviner, L. E., Loach, J. C., MacMullin, J., MacMullin, S., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S., Mertens, S., Nomachi, M., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Phillips, II, D. G., Poon, A. W.P., Pushkin, K., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G.H., Romero-Romero, E., Ronquest, M. C., Schubert, A. G., Shanks, B., Shima, T., Shirchenko, M., Snavely, K. J., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Thompson, J., Timkin, V., Tornow, W., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Young, A. R., Yu, C. -H., & Yumatov, V. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR for 0νββ: Current status and future plans. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.038
Green, M. P., Abgrall, N., Aguayo, E., Avignone, III, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Boswell, M., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y. -D., Christofferson, C. D., Combs, D. C., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J. A., Doe, P. J., Efremenko, Yu., Egorov, V., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Fast, J. E., Finnerty, P., Fraenkle, F. M., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Gruszko, J., Guiseppe, V. E., Gusev, K., Hallin, A. L., Hazama, R., Hegai, A., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Howe, M. A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., Leviner, L. E., Loach, J. C., MacMullin, J., MacMullin, S., Martin, R. D., Meijer, S., Mertens, S., Nomachi, M., Orrell, J. L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N. R., Phillips, II, D. G., Poon, A. W.P., Pushkin, K., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G.H., Romero-Romero, E., Ronquest, M. C., Schubert, A. G., Shanks, B., Shima, T., Shirchenko, M., Snavely, K. J., Snyder, N., Suriano, A. M., Thompson, J., Timkin, V., Tornow, W., Trimble, J. E., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Young, A. R., Yu, C. -H., and Yumatov, V. 2015. "The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR for 0νββ: Current status and future plans". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.038. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1202400.
@article{osti_1202400,
title = {The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR for 0νββ: Current status and future plans},
author = {Green, M. P. and Abgrall, N. and Aguayo, E. and Avignone, III, F. T. and Barabash, A. S. and Bertrand, F. E. and Boswell, M. and Brudanin, V. and Busch, M. and Byram, D. and Caldwell, A. S. and Chan, Y. -D. and Christofferson, C. D. and Combs, D. C. and Cuesta, C. and Detwiler, J. A. and Doe, P. J. and Efremenko, Yu. and Egorov, V. and Ejiri, H. and Elliott, S. R. and Fast, J. E. and Finnerty, P. and Fraenkle, F. M. and Galindo-Uribarri, A. and Giovanetti, G. K. and Goett, J. and Gruszko, J. and Guiseppe, V. E. and Gusev, K. and Hallin, A. L. and Hazama, R. and Hegai, A. and Henning, R. and Hoppe, E. W. and Howard, S. and Howe, M. A. and Keeter, K. J. and Kidd, M. F. and Kochetov, O. and Konovalov, S. I. and Kouzes, R. T. and LaFerriere, B. D. and Leon, J. and Leviner, L. E. and Loach, J. C. and MacMullin, J. and MacMullin, S. and Martin, R. D. and Meijer, S. and Mertens, S. and Nomachi, M. and Orrell, J. L. and O'Shaughnessy, C. and Overman, N. R. and Phillips, II, D. G. and Poon, A. W.P. and Pushkin, K. and Radford, D. C. and Rager, J. and Rielage, K. and Robertson, R. G.H. and Romero-Romero, E. and Ronquest, M. C. and Schubert, A. G. and Shanks, B. and Shima, T. and Shirchenko, M. and Snavely, K. J. and Snyder, N. and Suriano, A. M. and Thompson, J. and Timkin, V. and Tornow, W. 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 Young, A. R. and Yu, C. -H. and Yumatov, V.},
abstractNote = {The Majorana Demonstrator will search for neutrinoless-double-beta decay (0νββ) in 76Ge, while establishing the feasibility of a future tonne-scale germanium-based 0νββ experiment, and performing searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment, currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD, will consist of a pair of modular high-purity germanium detector arrays housed inside of a compact copper, lead, and polyethylene shield. Through a combination of strict materials qualifications and assay, low-background design, and powerful background rejection techniques, the Demonstrator aims to achieve a background rate in the 0νββ region of interest (ROI) of no more than 3 counts in the 0νββ-decay ROI per tonne of target isotope per year (cnts/(ROI-t-y)). The current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion.},
doi = {10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.038},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1202400}, journal = {Physics Procedia},
issn = {1875-3892},
number = C,
volume = 61,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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