Analysis techniques for background rejection at the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
Abstract
The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular HPGe detector array to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based 0nbb-decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. The background rejection techniques to be applied to the data include cuts based on data reduction, pulse shape analysis, event coincidences, and time correlations. The Point Contact design of the DEMONSTRATOR 0s germanium detectors allows for significant reduction of gamma background.
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@article{arxiv.1506.03202,
title = {Analysis techniques for background rejection at the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR},
author = {C. Cuesta and N. Abgrall and I. J. Arnquist and F. T. Avignone and C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera and A. S. Barabash and F. E. Bertrand and A. W. Bradley and V. Brudanin and M. Busch and M. Buuck and D. Byram and A. S. Caldwell and Y-D. Chan and C. D. Christofferson and J. A. Detwiler and Yu. Efremenko and H. Ejiri and S. R. Elliott and A. Galindo-Uribarri and T. Gilliss and G. K. Giovanetti and J. Goett and M. P. Green and J. Gruszko and I. S. Guinn and V. E. Guiseppe and R. Henning and E. W. Hoppe and S. Howard and M. A. Howe and B. R. Jasinski and K. J. Keeter and M. F. Kidd and S. I. Konovalov and R. T. Kouzes and B. D. LaFerriere and J. Leon and J. MacMullin and R. D. Martin and S. J. Meijer and S. Mertens and J. L. Orrell and C. O'Shaughnessy and A. W. P. Poon and D. C. Radford and J. Rager and K. Rielage and R. G. H. Robertson and E. Romero-Romero and B. Shanks and M. Shirchenko and N. Snyder and A. M. Suriano and D. Tedeschi 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 C. -H. Yu and V. Yumatov and I. Zhitnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03202},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures