The Majorana experiment: an ultra-low background search for neutrinoless double-beta decay
Nuclear Experiment
2012-11-13 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would resolve the Majorana nature of the neutrino and could provide information on the absolute scale of the neutrino mass. The initial phase of the Majorana experiment, known as the Demonstrator, will house 40 kg of Ge in an ultra-low background shielded environment at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The objective of the Demonstrator is to determine whether a future 1-tonne experiment can achieve a background goal of one count per tonne-year in a narrow region of interest around the 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay peak.
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@article{arxiv.1111.5578,
title = {The Majorana experiment: an ultra-low background search for neutrinoless double-beta decay},
author = {D. G. Phillips and E. Aguayo and F. T. Avignone and H. O. Back and A. S. Barabash and M. Bergevin and F. E. Bertrand and M. Boswell and V. Brudanin and M. Busch and Y. -D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and J. I. Collar and D. C. Combs and R. J. Cooper and J. A. Detwiler and P. J. Doe and Y. Efremenko and V. Egorov and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and J. Esterline and J. E. Fast and N. Fields and P. Finnerty and F. M. Fraenkle and V. M. Gehman and G. K. Giovanetti and M. P. Green and V. E. Guiseppe and K. Gusey and A. L. Hallin and R. Hazama and R. Henning and A. Hime and E. W. Hoppe and M. Horton and S. Howard and M. A. Howe and R. A. Johnson and K. J. Keeter and C. Keller and M. F. Kidd and A. Knecht and O. Kochetov and S. I. Konovalov and R. T. Kouzes and B. LaFerriere and B. H. LaRoque and J. Leon and L. E. Leviner and J. C. Loach and S. MacMullin and M. G. Marino and R. D. Martin and D. -M. Mei and J. Merriman and M. L. Miller and L. Mizouni and M. Nomachi and J. L. Orrell and N. R. Overman and A. W. P. Poon and G. Perumpilly and G. Prior and D. C. Radford and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and M. C. Ronquest and A. G. Schubert and T. Shima and M. Shirchenko and K. J. Snavely and D. Steele and J. Strain and K. Thomas and V. Timkin and W. Tornow and I. Vanyushin and R. L. Varner and K. Vetter and K. Vorren and J. F. Wilkerson and B. A. Wolfe and E. Yakushev and A. R. Young and C. -H. Yu and V. Yumatov and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5578},
year = {2012}
}
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Presentation for the Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear Physics