The Majorana Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Project
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The Majorana Experiment is a next-generation Ge-76 double-beta decay search. It will employ 500 kg of Ge, isotopically enriched to 86% in Ge-76, in the form of 200 detectors in a close-packed array for high granularity. Each crystal will be electronically segmented, with each region fitted with pulse-shape analysis electronics. A half-life sensitivity is predicted of 4.2e27 y or <m_nu> < 0.02-0.07 eV, depending on the nuclear matrix elements used to interpret the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0201021,
title = {The Majorana Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Project},
author = {The Majorana Collaboration and C. E. Aalseth and D. Anderson and F. T. Avignone and A. Barabash and T. W. Bowyer and R. L. Brodzinski and V. Brudanin and J. I. Collar and P. J. Doe and S. Egorov and S. R. Elliott and H. A. Farach and R. Gaitskell and D. Jordan and O. Kochetov and S. Konovalov and R. Kouzes and H. S. Miley and W. K. Pitts and J. H. Reeves and R. G. H. Robertson and V. Sandukovsky and E. Smith and V. Stekhanov and R. C. Thompson and W. Tornow and V. Umatov and R. A. Warner and J. Webb and J. Wilkerson and A. Young},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0201021},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures. Presented by F. T. Avignone at NANP 2001