1. Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
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Vasilyev, S, Abgrall, N, Arnquist, IJ, Avignone, FT, Balderrot-Barrera, CX, Barabash, AS, Bertrand, FE, Bradley, AW, Brudanin, V, Busch, M, Buuck, M, Byram, D, Caldwell, AS, Chan, YD, Christofferson, CD, Cuesta, C, Detwiler, JA, Efremenko, Y, Ejiri, H, Elliott, SR, Galindo-Uribarri, A, Gilliss, T, Giovanetti, GK, Goett, J, Green, MP, Gruszko, J, Guinn, I, Guiseppe, VE, Henning, R, Hoppe, EW, Howard, S, Howe, MA, Jasinski, BR, Keeter, KE, Kidd, MF, Konovalov, SI, Kouzes, RT, LaFerriere, BD, Leon, J, MacMullin, J, Martin, RD, Meijer, SJ, Mertens, S, Orrell, JL, O’Shaughnessy, C, Poon, AWP, Radford, DC, Rager, J, Rielage, K, Robertson, RGH, Romero-Romero, E, Shanks, B, Shirchenko, M, Snyder, N, Suriano, AM, Tedeschi, D, Trimble, JE, Varner, RL, Vetter, K, Vorren, K, White, BR, Wilkerson, JF, Wiseman, C, Xu, W, Yakushev, E, Yu, CH, Yumatov, V, Zhitnikov, I, and The MAJORANA Collaboration
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Particle and Plasma Physics ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle And Plasma Physics ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Atomic ,Nuclear & Particles Physics - Abstract
© 2017, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultralow background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ-decay) in 76Ge. The goal of the experiment is to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge 0νββ-decay. In this paper, the status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, including its design and measurements of properties of the HPGe crystals is presented.
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- 2017
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