The Majorana Demonstrator
Nuclear Experiment
2011-10-03 v1
Abstract
A brief review of the history and neutrino physics of double beta decay is given. A description of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR research and development program including background reduction techniques is presented in some detail. The application of point contact (PC) detectors to the experiment is discussed, including the effectiveness of pulse shape analysis. The predicted sensitivity of a PC detector array enriched to 86% in 76Ge is given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.6913,
title = {The Majorana Demonstrator},
author = {E. Aguayo and J. E. Fast and E. W. Hoppe and M. E. Keillor and J. D. Kephart and R. T. Kouzes and B. D. LaFerriere and J. Merriman and J. L. Orrell and N. R. Overman and F. T. Avignone and H. O. Back and D. C. Combs and L. E. Leviner and A. R. Young and A. S. Barabash and S. I. Konovalov and I. Vanyushin and V. Yumatov and M. Bergevin and Y-D. Chan and J. A. Detwiler and J. C. Loach and R. D. Martin and A. W. P. Poon and G. Prior and K. Vetter and F. E. Bertrand and R. J. Cooper and D. C. Radford and R. L. Varner and C. -H. Yu and M. Boswell and S. R. Elliott and V. M. Gehman and A. Hime and M. F. Kidd and B. H. LaRoque and K. Rielage and M. C. Ronquest and D. Steele and V. Brudanin and V. Egorov and K. Gusey and O. Kochetov and M. Shirchenko and V. Timkin and E. Yakushev and M. Busch and J. Esterline and W. Tornow and C. D. Christofferson and M. Horton and S. Howard and V. Sobolev and J. I. Collar and N. Fields and R. J. Creswick and P. J. Doe and R. A. Johnson and A. Knecht and J. Leon and M. G. Marino and M. L. Miller and R. G. H. Robertson and A. G. Schubert and B. A. Wolfe and Yu. Efremenko and H. Ejiri and R. Hazama and M. Nomachi and T. Shima and P. Finnerty and F. M. Fraenkle and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and R. Henning and M. A. Howe and S. MacMullin and D. G. Phillips and K. J. Snavely and J. Strain and K. Vorren and V. E. Guiseppe and C. Keller and D. -M. Mei and G. Perumpilly and K. Thomas and C. Zhang and A. L. Hallin and K. J. Keeter and L. Mizouni and J. F. Wilkerson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6913},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
To be published in the DPF-2011 Conference Proceedings