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The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the isotope Ge-76 with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observation of this rare decay would indicate the neutrino is its own…

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the 76Ge isotope with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observation of this rare decay would indicate the neutrino is its own…

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 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 search for neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is the best way to test lepton number violation and Majorana nature of neutrinos. One of the most promising techniques to discover $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay is by operating…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-17 V. D'Andrea

A discovery that neutrinos are not the usual Dirac but Majorana fermions, i.e. identical to their antiparticles, would be a manifestation of new physics with profound implications for particle physics and cosmology. Majorana neutrinos would…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-01 GERDA collaboration , M. Agostini , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , D. Borowicz , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , T. Comellato , V. D'Andrea , E. V. Demidova , N. Di Marco , A. Domula , E. Doroshkevich , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , M. Fomina , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , M. Giordano , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , J. Hakenmüller , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , R. Hiller , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , J. Janicskó Csáthy , J. Jochum , M. Junker , V. Kazalov , Y. Kermaïdic , T. Kihm , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Kish , A. Klimenko , R. Kneißl , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , P. Krause , V. V. Kuzminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , M. Miloradovic , R. Mingazheva , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , I. Nemchenok , K. Panas , L. Pandola , K. Pelczar , L. Pertoldi , P. Piseri , A. Pullia , C. Ransom , S. Riboldi , N. Rumyantseva , C. Sada , E. Sala , F. Salamida , C. Schmitt , B. Schneider , S. Schönert , A. -K. Schütz , O. Schulz , B. Schwingenheuer , M. Schwarz , O. Selivanenko , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , D. Stukov , L. Vanhoefer , A. A. Vasenko , A. Veresnikova , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , A. Wegmann , T. Wester , C. Wiesinger , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , A. Zschocke , A. J. Zsigmond , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

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 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 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…

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

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0${\nu}{\beta}{\beta}$) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutrino mass. A discovery-capable experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-15 LEGEND Collaboration , N. Abgrall , A. Abramov , N. Abrosimov , I. Abt , M. Agostini , M. Agartioglu , A. Ajjaq , S. I. Alvis , F. T. Avignone , X. Bai , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , A. S. Barabash , P. J. Barton , L. Baudis , L. Bezrukov , T. Bode , A. Bolozdynya , D. Borowicz , A. Boston , H. Boston , S. T. P. Boyd , R. Breier , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , M. Busch , M. Buuck , A. Caldwell , T. S. Caldwell , T. Camellato , M. Carpenter , C. Cattadori , J. Cederkäll , Y. -D. Chan , S. Chen , A. Chernogorov , C. D. Christofferson , P. -H. Chu , R. J. Cooper , C. Cuesta , E. V. Demidova , Z. Deng , M. Deniz , J. A. Detwiler , N. Di Marco , A. Domula , Q. Du , Yu. Efremenko , V. Egorov , S. R. Elliott , D. Fields , F. Fischer , A. Galindo-Uribarri , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , T. Gilliss , M. Giordano , G. K. Giovanetti , M. Gold , P. Golubev , C. Gooch , P. Grabmayr , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. S. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , V. Gurentsov , Y. Gurov , K. Gusev , J. Hakenmüeller , L. Harkness-Brennan , Z. R. Harvey , C. R. Haufe , L. Hauertmann , D. Heglund , L. Hehn , A. Heinz , R. Hiller , J. Hinton , R. Hodak , W. Hofmann , S. Howard , M. A. Howe , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , J. Janicskó Csáthy , R. Janssens , M. Ješkovský , J. Jochum , H. T. Johansson , D. Judson , M. Junker , J. Kaizer , K. Kang , V. Kazalov , Y. Kermaïdic , F. Kiessling , A. Kirsch , A. Kish , A. Klimenko , K. T. K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , S. I. Konovalov , I. Kontul , V. N. Kornoukhov , T. Kraetzschmar , K. Kröninger , A. Kumar , V. V. Kuzminov , K. Lang , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , Y. L. Li , Y. -Y. Li , H. B. Li , S. T. Lin , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , S. K. Liu , X. Liu , J. Liu , D. Loomba , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , H. Ma , B. Majorovits , F. Mamedov , R. D. Martin , R. Massarczyk , J. A. J. Matthews , N. McFadden , D. -M. Mei , H. Mei , S. J. Meijer , D. Mengoni , S. Mertens , W. Miller , M. Miloradovic , R. Mingazheva , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , J. Myslik , I. Nemchenok , T. Nilsson , P. Nolan , C. O'Shaughnessy , G. Othman , K. Panas , L. Pandola , L. Papp , K. Pelczar , D. Peterson , W. Pettus , A. W. P. Poon , P. P. Povinec , A. Pullia , X. C. Quintana , D. C. Radford , J. Rager , C. Ransom , F. Recchia , A. L. Reine , S. Riboldi , K. Rielage , S. Rozov , N. W. Rouf , E. Rukhadze , N. Rumyantseva , R. Saakyan , E. Sala , F. Salamida , V. Sandukovsky , G. Savard , S. Schönert , A. -K. Schütz , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , B. Schwingenheuer , O. Selivanenko , B. Sevda , B. Shanks , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , F. Simkovic , L. Singh , V. Singh , M. Skorokhvatov , K. Smolek , A. Smolnikov , A. Sonay , M. Spavorova , I. Stekl , D. Stukov , D. Tedeschi , J. Thompson , T. Van Wechel , R. L. Varner , A. A. Vasenko , S. Vasilyev , A. Veresnikova , K. Vetter , K. von Sturm , K. Vorren , M. Wagner , G. -J. Wang , D. Waters , W. -Z. Wei , T. Wester , B. R. White , C. Wiesinger , J. F. Wilkerson , M. Willers , C. Wiseman , M. Wojcik , H. T. Wong , J. Wyenberg , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , G. Yang , C. -H. Yu , Q. Yue , V. Yumatov , J. Zeman , Z. Zeng , I. Zhitnikov , B. Zhu , D. Zinatulina , A. Zschocke , A. J. Zsigmond , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

The Majorana Demonstrator is currently searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge and will demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a tonne-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Gulden Othman

The Majorana Demonstrator was an ultra-low-background experiment designed for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) investigation in $^{76}$Ge. Located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, the…