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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 MAJORANA Collaboration is building the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 60 kg array of high purity germanium detectors housed in an ultra-low background shield at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR will…

Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of the neutrino mass. The consequences of these searches go…

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR recently concluded its search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. The experiment operated an array of up to 40.4 kg of germanium detectors, 27 kg of which were isotopically enriched in 76Ge and housed inside a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-11 David J. Tedeschi

Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments can potentially determine the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino, and aid in understanding the neutrino absolute mass scale and hierarchy. Future 76Ge-based searches target a half-life…

Germanium detectors have very good capabilities for the investigation of rare phenomena like the neutrinoless double beta decay. Rejection of the background entangling the expected signal is one primary goal in this kind of experiments.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Gómez , S. Cebrián , J. Morales , J. A. Villar

Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches play a major role in determining the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The Majorana Collaboration proposes to assemble an…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 V. E. Guiseppe

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

Building a \BBz experiment with the ability to probe neutrino mass in the inverted hierarchy region requires the combination of a large detector mass sensitive to \BBz, on the order of 1-tonne, and unprecedented background levels, on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 S. R. Elliott

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 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…