The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: An R&amp;D project towards a tonne-scale germanium neutrinoless double-beta decay search

Aalseth, C. E.; Amman, M.; Amsbaugh, J. F.; Avignone, F. T.; Back, H. O.; Barabash, A. S.; Barbeau, P. S.; Beene, J. R.; Bergevin, M.; Bertrand, F. E.; Boswell, M.; Brudanin, V.; Bugg, W.; Burritt, T. H.; Chan, Y.-D.; Collar, J. I.; Cooper, R. J.; Creswick, R.; Detwiler, J. A.; Doe, P. J.; Hime, A.; Efremenko, Y.-U.; Hoppe, E. W.; Hossbach, T. W.; Egorov, V.; Howe, M. A.; Ejiri, H.; Johnson, R. A.; Elliott, S. R.; Keeter, K. J.; Ely, J.; Keillor, M.; Esterline, J.; Keller, C.; Farach, H.; Kephart, J. D.; Fast, J. E.; Kidd, M. F.; Fields, N.; Kochetov, O.; Finnerty, P.; Konovalov, S. I.; Fujikawa, B.; Kouzes, R. T.; Fuller, E.; Lesko, K. T.; Gehman, V. M.; Leviner, L.; Giovanetti, G. K.; Loach, J. C.; Guiseppe, V. E.; Luke, P. N.; Gusey, K.; MacMullin, S.; Hallin, A. L.; Marino, M. G.; Hazama, R.; Mei, D.-M.; Henning, Reyco; Miley, H. S.; Miller, M.; Mizouni, L.; Montoya, A.; Myers, A. W.; Nomachi, M.; Odom, B.; Orrell, J. L.; Phillips, D.; Poon, A. W. P.; Prior, G.; Qian, J.; Radford, D. C.; Rielage, K.; Robertson, R. G. H.; Rodriguez, L.; Rykaczewski, K. P.; Schubert, A. G.; Shima, T.; Shirchenko, M.; Strain, J.; Thomas, K.; Thompson, R.; Timkin, V.; Tornow, W.; Van Wechel, T. D.; Vanyushin, I.; Vetter, K.; Warner, R.; Wilkerson, J. F.; Wouters, J. M.; Yakushev, E.; Young, A. R.; Yu, C.-H.; Yumatov, V.; Zhang, C.; Zimmerman, S.; Marshak, Marvin L.; Collaboration, for the Majorana

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American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/1.3293951

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The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: An R&D project towards a tonne-scale germanium neutrinoless double-beta decay search

Journal article published in 2009 by C. E. Aalseth, M. Amman, J. F. Amsbaugh, F. T. Avignone, H. O. Back, A. S. Barabash, P. S. Barbeau, J. R. Beene, M. Bergevin, F. E. Bertrand, M. Boswell, V. Brudanin, W. Bugg, T. H. Burritt, Y.-D. Chan and other authors.

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The MAJORANA collaboration is pursuing the development of the so-called MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. The DEMONSTRATOR is intended to perform research and development towards a tonne-scale germanium-based experiment to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge-76. The DEMONSTRATOR can also perform a competitive direct dark matter search for light WIMPs in the 1-10 GeV/c^2 mass range. It will consist of approximately 60-kg of germanium detectors in an ultra-low background shield located deep underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The DEMONSTRATOR will also perform background and technology studies, and half of the detector mass will be enriched germanium. This talk will review the motivation, design, technology and status of the DEMONSTRATOR. ; Comment: CIPANP 2009 Conference Proceedings

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