Initial Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
Abstract
Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} is composed of 44.8~kg (29.7 kg enriched in Ge) of Ge detectors in total, split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The initial goals of the {\sc Demonstrator} are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based, next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that began in 2015, the first detector module started physics data production in early 2016. We will discuss initial results of the Module 1 commissioning and first physics run, as well as the status and potential physics reach of the full {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} experiment. The collaboration plans to complete the assembly of the second detector module by mid-2016 to begin full data production with the entire array.
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@article{arxiv.1610.01210,
title = {Initial Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR},
author = {S. R. Elliott and N. Abgrall and I. J. Arnquist and F. T. Avignone and A. S. Barabash and F. E. Bertrand and A. W. Bradley and V. Brudanin and M. Busch and M. Buuck and T. S. Caldwell and Y-D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and P. -H. Chu and C. Cuesta and J. A. Detwiler and C. Dunagan and Yu. Efremenko and H. Ejiri and A. Fullmer and A. Galindo-Uribarri and T. Gilliss and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and J. Gruszko and I. S. Guinn and V. E. Guiseppe and R. Henning and E. W. Hoppe and M. A. Howe and B. R. Jasinski and K. J. Keeter and M. F. Kidd and S. I. Konovalov and R. T. Kouzes and J. Leon and A. M. Lopez and J. MacMullin and R. D. Martin and R. Massarczyk and S. J. Meijer and S. Mertens and J. L. Orrell and C. O'Shaughnessy and A. W. P. Poon and D. C. Radford and J. Rager and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and E. Romero-Romero and B. Shanks and M. Shirchenko and A. M. Suriano and D. Tedeschi and J. E. Trimble and R. L. Varner and S. Vasilyev and K. Vetter and K. Vorren and B. R. White and J. F. Wilkerson and C. Wiseman and W. Xu and E. Yakushev and C. -H. Yu and V. Yumatov and I. Zhitnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01210},
year = {2017}
}
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Neutrino 2016 proceeding