The Majorana Parts Tracking Database
Abstract
The Majorana Demonstrator is an ultra-low background physics experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge. The Majorana Parts Tracking Database is used to record the history of components used in the construction of the Demonstrator. The tracking implementation takes a novel approach based on the schema-free database technology CouchDB. Transportation, storage, and processes undergone by parts such as machining or cleaning are linked to part records. Tracking parts provides a great logistics benefit and an important quality assurance reference during construction. In addition, the location history of parts provides an estimate of their exposure to cosmic radiation. A web application for data entry and a radiation exposure calculator have been developed as tools for achieving the extreme radio-purity required for this rare decay search.
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@article{arxiv.1502.01748,
title = {The Majorana Parts Tracking Database},
author = {The Majorana Collaboration and N. Abgrall and E. Aguayo and F. T. Avignone and A. S. Barabash and F. E. Bertrand and V. Brudanin and M. Busch and D. Byram and A. S. Caldwell and Y-D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and D. C. Combs and C. Cuesta and J. A. Detwiler and P. J. Doe and Yu. Efremenko and V. Egorov and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and J. Esterline and J. E. Fast and P. Finnerty and F. M. Fraenkle and A. Galindo-Uribarri and G. K. Giovanetti and J. Goett and M. P. Green and J. Gruszko and V. E. Guiseppe and K. Gusev and A. L. Hallin and R. Hazama and A. Hegai and R. Henning and E. W. Hoppe and S. Howard and M. A. Howe and K. J. Keeter and M. F. Kidd and O. Kochetov and S. I. Konovalov and R. T. Kouzes and B. D. LaFerriere and J. Diaz Leon and L. E. Leviner and J. C. Loach and J. MacMullin and R. D. Martin and S. J. Meijer and S. Mertens and M. L. Miller and L. Mizouni and M. Nomachi and J. L. Orrell and C. O'Shaughnessy and N. R. Overman and R. Petersburg and D. G. Phillips and A. W. P. Poon and K. Pushkin and D. C. Radford and J. Rager and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and E. Romero-Romero and M. C. Ronquest and B. Shanks and T. Shima and M. Shirchenko and K. J. Snavely and N. Snyder and A. Soin and A. M. Suriano and D. Tedeschi and J. Thompson and V. Timkin and W. Tornow 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 A. R. Young and C. -H. Yu and V. Yumatov and I. Zhitnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01748},
year = {2016}
}