Data quality assurance for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Conference · Mon May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · arXiv.org Repository

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012123· OSTI ID:1460325

Myslik, J; Abgrall, N; Alvis, SI; Arnquist, IJ; III, FTA; Barabash, AS; Barton, CJ; Bertrand, FE; Bode, T; Bradley, AW; Brudanin, V; Busch, M; Buuck, M; Caldwell, TS; Chan, Y-D; Christofferson, CD; Chu, P-H; Cuesta, C; Detwiler, JA; Dunagan, C ; Efremenko, Y; Ejiri, H; Elliott, SR; Gilliss, T; Giovanetti, GK; Green, MP; Gruszko, J; Guinn, IS; Guiseppe, VE; Haufe, CR; Hehn, L; Henning, R; Hoppe, EW; Howe, MA; Keeter, KJ; Kidd, MF; Konovalov, SI; Kouzes, RT; Lopez, AM; Martin, RD; Massarczyk, R; Meijer, SJ; Mertens, S; O'Shaughnessy, C; Othman, G; Pettus, W; Poon, AWP; Radford, DC; Rager, J; Reine, AL; Rielage, K; Robertson, RGH; Ruof, NW; Shanks, B; Shirchenko, M; Suriano, AM; Tedeschi, D; Trimble, JE; Varner, RL; Vasilyev, S; Vetter, K; Vorren, K; White, BR; Wilkerson, JF; Wiseman, C; Xu, W; Yakushev, E; Yu, C-H; Yumatov, V; Zhitnikov, I; Zhu, BX

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 large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and ⁷⁶Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Any neutrinoless double-beta decay search requires a thorough understanding of the background and the signal energy spectra. The various techniques employed to ensure the integrity of the measured spectra are discussed. Data collection is monitored with a thorough set of checks, and subsequent careful analysis is performed to qualify the data for higher level physics analysis. Instrumental background events are tagged for removal, and problematic channels are removed from consideration as necessary.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1460325
• Journal Information: arXiv.org Repository, Vol. 2018; Conference: TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Sudbury ON, Canada, July 24-28, 2017; Related Information: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10550; ISSN 9999-0017
• Publisher: Cornell University
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English