English
Related papers

Related papers: The Majorana Parts Tracking Database

200 papers

Of the many extensions to the standard model that could possibly generate neutrino mass, most necessitate the neutrino being a Majorana fermion. If this is the case, the rare process of neutrinoless double beta decay is predicted with half…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-30 Ethan Brown , Kelly Odgers , Adam Tidball

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is one of the key experiments for determining unresolved properties of neutrinos. Experimental observation of $0\nu\beta\beta$ would provide a clear demonstration of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-07 Yong-Hamb Kim

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay is the most sensitive technique to establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Two operating experiments that look for such decays in $^{76}$Ge -- GERDA and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR -- have…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Jordan Myslik

The \MJ\ Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The \MJ\ \DEM\ comprises 44.1~kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) split between two modules…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-04-04 C. E. Aalseth , N. Abgrall , E. Aguayo , S. I. Alvis , M. Amman , I. J. Arnquist , F. T. Avignone , H. O. Back , A. S. Barabash , P. S. Barbeau , C. J. Barton , P. J. Barton , F. E. Bertrand , T. Bode , B. Bos , M. Boswell , R. L. Brodzinski , A. W. Bradley , V. Brudanin , M. Busch , M. Buuck , A. S. Caldwell , T. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , P. -H. Chu , J. I. Collar , D. C. Combs , R. J. Cooper , C. Cuesta , J. A. Detwiler , P. J. Doe , J. A. Dunmore , Yu. Efremenko , H. Ejiri , S. R. Elliott , J. E. Fast , P. Finnerty , F. M. Fraenkle , Z. Fu , B. K. Fujikawa , E. Fuller , A. Galindo-Uribarri , V. M. Gehman , T. Gilliss , G. K. Giovanetti , J. Goett , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. S. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , A. L. Hallin , C. R. Haufe , L. Hehn , R. Henning , E. W. Hoppe , T. W. Hossbach , M. A. Howe , B. R. Jasinski , R. A. Johnson , K. J. Keeter , J. D. Kephart , M. F. Kidd , A. Knecht , S. I. Konovalov , R. T. Kouzes , K. T. Lesko , B. D. LaFerriere , J. Leon , L. E. Leviner , J. C. Loach , A. M. Lopez , P. N. Luke , J. MacMullin , S. MacMullin , M. G. Marino , R. D. Martin , R. Massarczyk , A. B. McDonald , D. -M. Mei , S. J. Meijer , J. H. Merriman , S. Mertens , H. S. Miley , M. L. Miller , J. Myslik , J. L. Orrell , C. O'Shaughnessy , G. Othman , N. R. Overman , W. Pettus , D. G. Phillips , A. W. P. Poon , G. Perumpilly , K. Pushkin , D. C. Radford , J. Rager , J. H. Reeves , A. L. Reine , K. Rielage , R. G. H. Robertson , M. C. Ronquest , N. W. Ruof , A. G. Schubert , B. Shanks , M. Shirchenko , K. J. Snavely , N. Snyder , D. Steele , A. M. Suriano , D. Tedeschi , W. Tornow , J. E. Trimble , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , K. Vetter , K. Vorren , B. R. White , J. F. Wilkerson , C. Wiseman , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , H. Yaver , A. R. Young , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov , I. Zhitnikov , B. X. Zhu , S. Zimmermann

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge with two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors. It is located at the 4850 level of Sanford Underground Research Facility…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 J. M. López-Castaño

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment operated two modular arrays of p-type point contact high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors, of which 30 kg is enriched to 88% in Ge-76, to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The data-taking…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Wenqin Xu

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most powerful tools to set the neutrino mass absolute scale and establish whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle. After a summary of the neutrinoless double beta decay phenomenology, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Nucciotti

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most sensitive approaches in non-accelerator particle physics to take us into a regime of physics beyond the standard model. This article is a brief review of the experiments in search of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-03-12 Somnath Choudhury

Neutrinoless double beta decay is the only process known so far able to test the neutrino intrinsic nature: its experimental observation would imply that the lepton number is violated by two units and prove that neutrinos have a Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Alberto Garfagnini

Neutrinoless double beta decay has been the subject of intensive theoretical work as it represents the only practical approach to discovering whether neutrinos are Majorana particles or not, and whether lepton number is a conserved quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 R. G. H. Robertson

The Majorana Experiment will use arrays of enriched HPGe detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge. Such a decay, if found, would show lepton-number violation and confirm the Majorana nature of the neutrino.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 R. A. Johnson , T. H. Burritt , S. R. Elliott , V. M. Gehman , V. E. Guiseppe , J. F. Wilkerson

The MAJORANA collaboration is actively pursuing research and development aimed at a tonne-scale 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay) experiment. The current, primary focus is the construction of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment, an R&D…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The MAJORANA Collaboration

The study of neutrinoless double-beta decay plays a fundamental role in the understanding of neutrino physics. Its observation would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles and that lepton number is not conserved. Experimental searches…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-05-12 Sergio Di Domizio

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is presently the only known experiment to distinguisch between Dirac neutrinos, different from their antiparticles, and Majorana neutrinos, identical with their antiparticles. In addition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Amand Faessler