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href="https://arxiv.org/format/2408.17391">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Two-neutrino double electron capture of $^{124}$Xe in the first LUX-ZEPLIN exposure </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aalbers%2C+J">J. Aalbers</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akerib%2C+D+S">D. S. Akerib</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Musalhi%2C+A+K+A">A. K. Al Musalhi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alder%2C+F">F. Alder</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amarasinghe%2C+C+S">C. S. Amarasinghe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ames%2C+A">A. Ames</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Anderson%2C+T+J">T. J. Anderson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angelides%2C+N">N. Angelides</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ara%C3%BAjo%2C+H+M">H. M. Ara煤jo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Armstrong%2C+J+E">J. E. Armstrong</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arthurs%2C+M">M. Arthurs</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baker%2C+A">A. Baker</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Balashov%2C+S">S. Balashov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bang%2C+J">J. Bang</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bargemann%2C+J+W">J. W. Bargemann</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barillier%2C+E+E">E. E. Barillier</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Beattie%2C+K">K. Beattie</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhatti%2C+A">A. Bhatti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Biekert%2C+A">A. Biekert</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Biesiadzinski%2C+T+P">T. P. Biesiadzinski</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Birch%2C+H+J">H. J. Birch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bishop%2C+E">E. Bishop</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blockinger%2C+G+M">G. M. Blockinger</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boxer%2C+B">B. Boxer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brew%2C+C+A+J">C. A. J. Brew</a> , et al. (180 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2408.17391v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The broad physics reach of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment covers rare phenomena beyond the direct detection of dark matter. We report precise measurements of the extremely rare decay of $^{124}$Xe through the process of two-neutrino double electron capture (2$谓$2EC), utilizing a $1.39\,\mathrm{kg} \times \mathrm{yr}$ isotopic exposure from the first LZ science run. A half-life of… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2408.17391v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2408.17391v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2408.17391v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The broad physics reach of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment covers rare phenomena beyond the direct detection of dark matter. We report precise measurements of the extremely rare decay of $^{124}$Xe through the process of two-neutrino double electron capture (2$谓$2EC), utilizing a $1.39\,\mathrm{kg} \times \mathrm{yr}$ isotopic exposure from the first LZ science run. A half-life of $T_{1/2}^{2\nu2\mathrm{EC}} = (1.09 \pm 0.14_{\text{stat}} \pm 0.05_{\text{sys}}) \times 10^{22}\,\mathrm{yr}$ is observed with a statistical significance of $8.3\,蟽$, in agreement with literature. First empirical measurements of the KK capture fraction relative to other K-shell modes were conducted, and demonstrate consistency with respect to recent signal models at the $1.4\,蟽$ level. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2408.17391v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2408.17391v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 30 August, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2024. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">15 pages, 3 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10856">arXiv:2308.10856</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.10856">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2308.10856">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Machine Learning">cs.LG</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability">physics.data-an</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Majorana Demonstrator Data Release for AI/ML Applications </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y+-">Y. -D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fuad%2C+N">N. Fuad</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (35 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2308.10856v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The enclosed data release consists of a subset of the calibration data from the Majorana Demonstrator experiment. Each Majorana event is accompanied by raw Germanium detector waveforms, pulse shape discrimination cuts, and calibrated final energies, all shared in an HDF5 file format along with relevant metadata. This release is specifically designed to support the training and testing of Artificia… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2308.10856v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2308.10856v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2308.10856v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The enclosed data release consists of a subset of the calibration data from the Majorana Demonstrator experiment. Each Majorana event is accompanied by raw Germanium detector waveforms, pulse shape discrimination cuts, and calibrated final energies, all shared in an HDF5 file format along with relevant metadata. This release is specifically designed to support the training and testing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms upon our data. This document is structured as follows. Section I provides an overview of the dataset's content and format; Section II outlines the location of this dataset and the method for accessing it; Section III presents the NPML Machine Learning Challenge associated with this dataset; Section IV contains a disclaimer from the Majorana collaboration regarding the use of this dataset; Appendix A contains technical details of this data release. Please direct questions about the material provided within this release to liaobo77@ucsd.edu (A. Li). <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2308.10856v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2308.10856v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 14 September, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 21 August, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">DataPlanet Access: https://dataplanet.ucsd.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=perma:83.ucsddata/UQWQAV</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08661">arXiv:2306.08661</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.08661">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2306.08661">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09023">10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09023 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Energy Calibration of Germanium Detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a> , et al. (31 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2306.08661v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR was a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) in the $^{76}$Ge isotope. It was staged at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The experiment consisted of 58 germanium detectors housed in a low background shield and was calibrated once per week by deploying a $^{228}$Th line source for 1 to 2 hours. The energy scal… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2306.08661v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2306.08661v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2306.08661v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR was a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) in the $^{76}$Ge isotope. It was staged at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, SD. The experiment consisted of 58 germanium detectors housed in a low background shield and was calibrated once per week by deploying a $^{228}$Th line source for 1 to 2 hours. The energy scale calibration determination for the detector array was automated using custom analysis tools. We describe the offline procedure for calibration of the Demonstrator germanium detectors, including the simultaneous fitting of multiple spectral peaks, estimation of energy scale uncertainties, and the automation of the calibration procedure. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2306.08661v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2306.08661v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 3 August, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 14 June, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> JINST 18, P09023 (2023) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01965">arXiv:2306.01965</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01965">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2306.01965">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.152501">10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.152501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Constraints on the decay of $^{180m}$Ta </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a> , et al. (34 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2306.01965v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> $^{180m}$Ta is a rare nuclear isomer whose decay has never been observed. Its remarkably long lifetime surpasses the half-lives of all other known $尾… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2306.01965v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2306.01965v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2306.01965v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> $^{180m}$Ta is a rare nuclear isomer whose decay has never been observed. Its remarkably long lifetime surpasses the half-lives of all other known $尾$ and electron capture decays due to the large K-spin differences and small energy differences between the isomeric and lower energy states. Detecting its decay presents a significant experimental challenge but could shed light on neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis mechanisms, the nature of dark matter and K-spin violation. For this study, we repurposed the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an experimental search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge using an array of high-purity germanium detectors, to search for the decay of $^{180m}$Ta. More than 17 kilograms, the largest amount of tantalum metal ever used for such a search was installed within the ultra-low background detector array. In this paper we present results from the first year of Ta data taking and provide an updated limit for the $^{180m}$Ta half-life on the different decay channels. With new limits up to 1.5 x $10^{19}$ years, we improved existing limits by one to two orders of magnitude. This result is the most sensitive search for a single $尾$ and electron capture decay ever achieved. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2306.01965v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2306.01965v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 2 June, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2023. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 152501 (2023) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10592">arXiv:2209.10592</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10592">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2209.10592">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Modeling Backgrounds for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (33 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2209.10592v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) experiment containing $\sim$30 kg of p-type point contact germanium detectors enriched to 88% in 76Ge and $\sim$14 kg of natural germanium detectors. The detectors are housed in two electroformed copper cryostats and surrounded by a graded passive shield with active muon veto. An extensive radioassay campaign was performed prio… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2209.10592v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2209.10592v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2209.10592v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) experiment containing $\sim$30 kg of p-type point contact germanium detectors enriched to 88% in 76Ge and $\sim$14 kg of natural germanium detectors. The detectors are housed in two electroformed copper cryostats and surrounded by a graded passive shield with active muon veto. An extensive radioassay campaign was performed prior to installation to insure the use of ultra-clean materials. The DEMONSTRATOR achieved one of the lowest background rates in the region of the $0谓尾尾$ Q-value, 15.7 $\pm$ 1.4 cts/(FWHM t y) from the low-background configuration spanning most of the 64.5 kg-yr active exposure. Nevertheless this background rate is a factor of five higher than the projected background rate. This discrepancy arises from an excess of events from the 232Th decay chain. Background model fits aim to understand this deviation from assay-based projections, potentially determine the source(s) of observed backgrounds, and allow a precision measurement of the two-neutrino double-beta decay half-life. The fits agree with earlier simulation studies, which indicate the origin of the 232Th excess is not from a near-detector component and have informed design decisions for the next-generation LEGEND experiment. Recent findings have narrowed the suspected locations for the excess activity, motivating a final simulation and assay campaign to complete the background model. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2209.10592v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2209.10592v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 January, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 21 September, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> September 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">8 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings from the Low Radioactivity Techniques Workshop 2022 in Rapid City, SD, USA</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10710">arXiv:2207.10710</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.10710">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2207.10710">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability">physics.data-an</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Machine Learning">cs.LG</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.014321">10.1103/PhysRevC.107.014321 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Interpretable Boosted Decision Tree Analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y+-">Y -D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Henning%2C+R">R. Henning</a> , et al. (30 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2207.10710v5-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is a leading experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with high purity germanium detectors (HPGe). Machine learning provides a new way to maximize the amount of information provided by these detectors, but the data-driven nature makes it less interpretable compared to traditional analysis. An interpretability study reveals the machine's decision-making logi… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2207.10710v5-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2207.10710v5-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2207.10710v5-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is a leading experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with high purity germanium detectors (HPGe). Machine learning provides a new way to maximize the amount of information provided by these detectors, but the data-driven nature makes it less interpretable compared to traditional analysis. An interpretability study reveals the machine's decision-making logic, allowing us to learn from the machine to feedback to the traditional analysis. In this work, we have presented the first machine learning analysis of the data from the Majorana Demonstrator; this is also the first interpretable machine learning analysis of any germanium detector experiment. Two gradient boosted decision tree models are trained to learn from the data, and a game-theory-based model interpretability study is conducted to understand the origin of the classification power. By learning from data, this analysis recognizes the correlations among reconstruction parameters to further enhance the background rejection performance. By learning from the machine, this analysis reveals the importance of new background categories to reciprocally benefit the standard Majorana analysis. This model is highly compatible with next-generation germanium detector experiments like LEGEND since it can be simultaneously trained on a large number of detectors. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2207.10710v5-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2207.10710v5-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 21 August, 2024; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 21 July, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">13 pages, 9 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 107, Iss. 1, January 2023 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07638">arXiv:2207.07638</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.07638">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2207.07638">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.062501">10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.062501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Final Result of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Neutrinoless Double-$尾$ Decay in $^{76}$Ge </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+P+J">P. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (35 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2207.07638v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR searched for neutrinoless double-$尾$ decay ($0谓尾尾$) of $^{76}$Ge using modular arrays of high-purity Ge detectors operated in vacuum cryostats in a low-background shield. The arrays operated with up to 40.4 kg of detectors (27.2 kg enriched to $\sim$88\% in $^{76}$Ge). From these measurements, the DEMONSTRATOR has accumulated 64.5 kg yr of enriched active exposure. With a… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2207.07638v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2207.07638v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2207.07638v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR searched for neutrinoless double-$尾$ decay ($0谓尾尾$) of $^{76}$Ge using modular arrays of high-purity Ge detectors operated in vacuum cryostats in a low-background shield. The arrays operated with up to 40.4 kg of detectors (27.2 kg enriched to $\sim$88\% in $^{76}$Ge). From these measurements, the DEMONSTRATOR has accumulated 64.5 kg yr of enriched active exposure. With a world-leading energy resolution of 2.52 keV FWHM at the 2039 keV $Q_{尾尾}$ (0.12\%), we set a half-life limit of $0谓尾尾$ in $^{76}$Ge at $T_{1/2}>8.3\times10^{25}$ yr (90\% C.L.). This provides a range of upper limits on $m_{尾尾}$ of $(113-269)$ meV (90\% C.L.), depending on the choice of nuclear matrix elements. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2207.07638v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2207.07638v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 10 February, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 15 July, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">8 pages, 2 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 062501 (2022) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05789">arXiv:2206.05789</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.05789">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2206.05789">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081803">10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081803 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for solar axions via axion-photon coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a> , et al. (33 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.05789v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Axions were originally proposed to explain the strong-CP problem in QCD. Through the axion-photon coupling, the Sun could be a major source of axions, which could be measured in solid state detection experiments with enhancements due to coherent Primakoff-Bragg scattering. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment has searched for solar axions with a set of $^{76}$Ge-enriched high purity germanium dete… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.05789v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2206.05789v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2206.05789v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Axions were originally proposed to explain the strong-CP problem in QCD. Through the axion-photon coupling, the Sun could be a major source of axions, which could be measured in solid state detection experiments with enhancements due to coherent Primakoff-Bragg scattering. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment has searched for solar axions with a set of $^{76}$Ge-enriched high purity germanium detectors using a 33 kg-yr exposure collected between Jan. 2017 and Nov. 2019. A temporal-energy analysis gives a new limit on the axion-photon coupling as $g_{a纬}<1.45\times 10^{-9}$ GeV$^{-1}$ (95% C.I.) for axions with mass up to 100 eV/$c^2$. This improves laboratory-based limits between about 1 eV/$c^2$ and 100 eV/$c^2$. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2206.05789v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2206.05789v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 22 August, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 12 June, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Minor updates to match published version</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Physical Review Letters 129, 081803 (2022) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14228">arXiv:2203.14228</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.14228">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2203.14228">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.064610">10.1103/PhysRevC.105.064610 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Experimental study of 13C(伪,n)16O reactions in the Majorana Demonstrator calibration data </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=MAJORANA+Collaboration"> MAJORANA Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (33 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.14228v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Neutron captures and delayed decays of reaction products are common sources of backgrounds in ultra-rare event searches. In this work, we studied $^{13}$C($伪,n)^{16}$O reactions induced by $伪$-particles emitted within the calibration sources of the \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator}. These sources are thorium-based calibration standards enclosed in carbon-rich materials. The reaction rate was estimate… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.14228v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2203.14228v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.14228v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Neutron captures and delayed decays of reaction products are common sources of backgrounds in ultra-rare event searches. In this work, we studied $^{13}$C($伪,n)^{16}$O reactions induced by $伪$-particles emitted within the calibration sources of the \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator}. These sources are thorium-based calibration standards enclosed in carbon-rich materials. The reaction rate was estimated by using the 6129-keV $纬$-rays emitted from the excited $^{16}$O states that are populated when the incoming $伪$-particles exceed the reaction Q-value. Thanks to the excellent energy performance of the \textsc{Demonstrator}'s germanium detectors, these characteristic photons can be clearly observed in the calibration data. Facilitated by \textsc{Geant4} simulations, a comparison between the observed 6129-keV photon rates and predictions by a TALYS-based software was performed. The measurements and predictions were found to be consistent, albeit with large statistical uncertainties. This agreement provides support for background projections from ($伪,n$)-reactions in future double-beta decay search efforts. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.14228v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2203.14228v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 July, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 27 March, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Published version</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Physical Review C 105, 064610 (2022) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02309">arXiv:2203.02309</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02309">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2203.02309">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics">astro-ph.CO</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ac841a">10.1088/1361-6471/ac841a <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aalbers%2C+J">J. Aalbers</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abe%2C+K">K. Abe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aerne%2C+V">V. Aerne</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agostini%2C+F">F. Agostini</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Maouloud%2C+S+A">S. Ahmed Maouloud</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akerib%2C+D+S">D. S. Akerib</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akimov%2C+D+Y">D. Yu. Akimov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akshat%2C+J">J. Akshat</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Musalhi%2C+A+K+A">A. K. Al Musalhi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alder%2C+F">F. Alder</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alsum%2C+S+K">S. K. Alsum</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Althueser%2C+L">L. Althueser</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amarasinghe%2C+C+S">C. S. Amarasinghe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amaro%2C+F+D">F. D. Amaro</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ames%2C+A">A. Ames</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Anderson%2C+T+J">T. J. Anderson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Andrieu%2C+B">B. Andrieu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angelides%2C+N">N. Angelides</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angelino%2C+E">E. Angelino</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angevaare%2C+J">J. Angevaare</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antochi%2C+V+C">V. C. Antochi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Martin%2C+D+A">D. Ant贸n Martin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antunovic%2C+B">B. Antunovic</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aprile%2C+E">E. Aprile</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ara%C3%BAjo%2C+H+M">H. M. Ara煤jo</a> , et al. (572 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.02309v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leading technology to cover the available parameter space for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), while featuring extensive sensitivity to many alternative dark matter candidates. These detectors can also study neut… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.02309v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2203.02309v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.02309v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leading technology to cover the available parameter space for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), while featuring extensive sensitivity to many alternative dark matter candidates. These detectors can also study neutrinos through neutrinoless double-beta decay and through a variety of astrophysical sources. A next-generation xenon-based detector will therefore be a true multi-purpose observatory to significantly advance particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, solar physics, and cosmology. This review article presents the science cases for such a detector. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.02309v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2203.02309v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 4 March, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">77 pages, 40 figures, 1262 references</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> INT-PUB-22-003 </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 50 (2023) 013001 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02033">arXiv:2203.02033</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02033">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2203.02033">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02437-9">10.1038/s41567-024-02437-9 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for charge nonconservation and Pauli exclusion principle violation with the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=MAJORANA+Collaboration"> MAJORANA Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (33 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.02033v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) result from fundamental symmetries in the Standard Model, and are typically taken as axiomatic. High-precision tests for small violations of these symmetries could point to new physics. In this work we consider three models for violation of these processes which would produce detectable ionization in the high-purity germanium detectors of… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.02033v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2203.02033v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2203.02033v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle (PEP) result from fundamental symmetries in the Standard Model, and are typically taken as axiomatic. High-precision tests for small violations of these symmetries could point to new physics. In this work we consider three models for violation of these processes which would produce detectable ionization in the high-purity germanium detectors of the Majorana Demonstrator. Using a 37.5 kg-yr exposure, we report a new lower limit on the electron mean lifetime of $蟿_e > 3.2 \times 10^{25}$ yr (90\% CL), the best result for this decay channel ($e \rightarrow 谓_e \overline{谓_e} 谓_e$ or more generally $e \rightarrow \mathrm{invisibles}$) in more than two decades. We also present searches for two types of violation of the PEP, setting new limits on the probability of two electrons forming a symmetric quantum state. Using our $^{228}$Th calibration data set, which introduces electrons new to the system through electron-positron pair production, we obtain a world-leading model-independent limit for a terrestrial experiment of $尾^2/2 < 1.0 \times 10^{-3}$ (99.7\% CL). Our 37.5 kg-yr exposure is also used to search for a process where an electron in an atomic system spontaneously violates the PEP, resulting in a model-dependent upper limit of $尾^2/2 < 1.0 \times 10^{-48}$ (90\% CL). <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2203.02033v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2203.02033v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 January, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 3 March, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Nat. Phys. 20, 1078-3038, 2024 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01343">arXiv:2202.01343</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.01343">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2202.01343">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.080401;">10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.080401; <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.239902">10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.239902 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for Spontaneous Radiation from Wavefunction Collapse in the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Henning%2C+R">R. Henning</a> , et al. (29 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2202.01343v5-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Demonstrator neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment comprises a 44 kg (30 kg enriched in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$) array of $p$-type, point-contact germanium detectors. With its unprecedented energy resolution and ultralow backgrounds, Majorana also searches for rare event signatures from beyond standard model physics in the low energy region below 100 keV. In this Letter, we test the co… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2202.01343v5-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2202.01343v5-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2202.01343v5-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Demonstrator neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment comprises a 44 kg (30 kg enriched in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$) array of $p$-type, point-contact germanium detectors. With its unprecedented energy resolution and ultralow backgrounds, Majorana also searches for rare event signatures from beyond standard model physics in the low energy region below 100 keV. In this Letter, we test the continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model, one of the mathematically well-motivated wave function collapse models aimed at solving the long-standing unresolved quantum mechanical measurement problem. While the CSL predicts the existence of a detectable radiation signature in the x-ray domain, we find no evidence of such radiation in the 19--100 keV range in a 37.5 kg-y enriched germanium exposure collected between December 31, 2015, and November 27, 2019, with the Demonstrator. We explored both the non-mass-proportional (n-m-p) and the mass-proportional (m-p) versions of the CSL with two different assumptions: that only the quasifree electrons can emit the x-ray radiation and that the nucleus can coherently emit an amplified radiation. In all cases, we set the most stringent upper limit to date for the white CSL model on the collapse rate, $位$, providing a factor of 40--100 improvement in sensitivity over comparable searches. Our limit is the most stringent for large parts of the allowed parameter space. If the result is interpreted in terms of the Di貌si-Penrose gravitational wave function collapse model, the lower bound with a 95% confidence level is almost an order of magnitude improvement over the previous best limit. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2202.01343v5-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2202.01343v5-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 12 June, 2023; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 2 February, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">This document was corrected in accordance with the erratum: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.239902. The number presented in the recent version of this article is correct</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09351">arXiv:2111.09351</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.09351">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2111.09351">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/T05003">10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/T05003 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Readout Electronics System </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amman%2C+M">M. Amman</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+P+J">P. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhimani%2C+K+H">K. H. Bhimani</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Burritt%2C+T+H">T. H. Burritt</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cooper%2C+R+J">R. J. Cooper</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a> , et al. (54 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2111.09351v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR comprises two arrays of high-purity germanium detectors constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge and other physics beyond the Standard Model. Its readout electronics were designed to have low electronic noise, and radioactive backgrounds were minimized by using low-mass components and low-radioactivity materials near the detectors. This paper prov… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2111.09351v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2111.09351v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2111.09351v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR comprises two arrays of high-purity germanium detectors constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge and other physics beyond the Standard Model. Its readout electronics were designed to have low electronic noise, and radioactive backgrounds were minimized by using low-mass components and low-radioactivity materials near the detectors. This paper provides a description of all components of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR readout electronics, spanning the front-end electronics and internal cabling, back-end electronics, digitizer, and power supplies, along with the grounding scheme. The spectroscopic performance achieved with these readout electronics is also demonstrated. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2111.09351v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2111.09351v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 23 February, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 17 November, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2021. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">For submission to JINST, 17 figures. v2: revised version</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14796">arXiv:2110.14796</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.14796">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2110.14796">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.014617">10.1103/PhysRevC.105.014617 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Signatures of muonic activation in the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwards%2C+T+R">T. R. Edwards</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (33 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2110.14796v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Experiments searching for very rare processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay require a detailed understanding of all sources of background. Signals from radioactive impurities present in construction and detector materials can be suppressed using a number of well-understood techniques. Background from in-situ cosmogenic interactions can be reduced by siting an experiment deep underground.… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2110.14796v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2110.14796v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2110.14796v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Experiments searching for very rare processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay require a detailed understanding of all sources of background. Signals from radioactive impurities present in construction and detector materials can be suppressed using a number of well-understood techniques. Background from in-situ cosmogenic interactions can be reduced by siting an experiment deep underground. However, the next generation of such experiments have unprecedented sensitivity goals of 10$^{28}$ years half-life with background rates of 10$^{-5}$cts/(keV kg yr) in the region of interest. To achieve these goals, the remaining cosmogenic background must be well understood. In the work presented here, Majorana Demonstrator data is used to search for decay signatures of meta-stable germanium isotopes. Contributions to the region of interest in energy and time are estimated using simulations, and compared to Demonstrator data. Correlated time-delayed signals are used to identify decay signatures of isotopes produced in the germanium detectors. A good agreement between expected and measured rate is found and different simulation frameworks are used to estimate the uncertainties of the predictions. The simulation campaign is then extended to characterize the background for the LEGEND experiment, a proposed tonne-scale effort searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2110.14796v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2110.14796v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 27 October, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2021. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">14 pages, 12 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13374">arXiv:2104.13374</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13374">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2104.13374">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.104.065501">10.1103/PhysRevC.104.065501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to the two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of $^{134}$Xe </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=LUX-ZEPLIN%2C+T">The LUX-ZEPLIN</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Collaboration"> Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=%3A"> :</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akerib%2C+D+S">D. S. Akerib</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Musalhi%2C+A+K+A">A. K. Al Musalhi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alsum%2C+S+K">S. K. Alsum</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amarasinghe%2C+C+S">C. S. Amarasinghe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ames%2C+A">A. Ames</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Anderson%2C+T+J">T. J. Anderson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angelides%2C+N">N. Angelides</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Araujo%2C+H+M">H. M. Araujo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Armstrong%2C+J+E">J. E. Armstrong</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arthurs%2C+M">M. Arthurs</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bai%2C+X">X. Bai</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Balajthy%2C+J">J. Balajthy</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Balashov%2C+S">S. Balashov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bang%2C+J">J. Bang</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bargemann%2C+J+W">J. W. Bargemann</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bauer%2C+D">D. Bauer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baxter%2C+A">A. Baxter</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Beltrame%2C+P">P. Beltrame</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bernard%2C+E+P">E. P. Bernard</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bernstein%2C+A">A. Bernstein</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bhatti%2C+A">A. Bhatti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Biekert%2C+A">A. Biekert</a> , et al. (172 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2104.13374v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe is presented. LZ is a 10-tonne xenon time projection chamber optimized for the detection of dark matter particles, that is expected to start operating in 2021 at Sanford Underground Research Facility, USA. Its large mass of natural xenon provides an exceptional opportunity t… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2104.13374v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2104.13374v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2104.13374v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe is presented. LZ is a 10-tonne xenon time projection chamber optimized for the detection of dark matter particles, that is expected to start operating in 2021 at Sanford Underground Research Facility, USA. Its large mass of natural xenon provides an exceptional opportunity to search for the double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe, for which xenon detectors enriched in $^{136}$Xe are less effective. For the two-neutrino decay mode, LZ is predicted to exclude values of the half-life up to 1.7$\times$10$^{24}$ years at 90% confidence level (CL), and has a three-sigma observation potential of 8.7$\times$10$^{23}$ years, approaching the predictions of nuclear models. For the neutrinoless decay mode LZ, is projected to exclude values of the half-life up to 7.3$\times$10$^{24}$ years at 90% CL. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2104.13374v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2104.13374v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 22 November, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 26 April, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> April 2021. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06014">arXiv:2008.06014</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.06014">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2008.06014">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.015501">10.1103/PhysRevC.103.015501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator's Search for Double-Beta Decay of $^{76}$Ge to Excited States of $^{76}$Se </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwards%2C+T+R">T. R. Edwards</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (38 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2008.06014v4-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is a neutrinoless double-beta decay search consisting of a low-background modular array of high-purity germanium detectors, $\sim2/3$ of which are enriched to 88\% in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment is also searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (e.s.) in $^{76}$Se. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three daughter states of $^{76}$Se, with clear event signatures… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2008.06014v4-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2008.06014v4-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2008.06014v4-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is a neutrinoless double-beta decay search consisting of a low-background modular array of high-purity germanium detectors, $\sim2/3$ of which are enriched to 88\% in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment is also searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (e.s.) in $^{76}$Se. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three daughter states of $^{76}$Se, with clear event signatures consisting of a $尾尾$-decay followed by the prompt emission of one or two $纬$-rays. This results with high probability in multi-detector coincidences. The granularity of the Demonstrator detector array enables powerful discrimination of this event signature from backgrounds. Using 41.9~kg-y of isotopic exposure, the Demonstrator has set world leading limits for each e.s.\ decay of $^{76}$Ge, with 90\% CL lower half-life limits in the range of $(0.75-4.0)\times10^{24}$~y. In particular, for the $2谓$ transition to the first $0^+$ e.s.\ of $^{76}$Se, a lower half-life limit of $7.5\times10^{23}$~y at 90\% CL was achieved. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2008.06014v4-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2008.06014v4-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 24 February, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 13 August, 2020; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2020. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">16 pages, 11 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. C 103, 015501 (2021) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13179">arXiv:2006.13179</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.13179">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2006.13179">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10161-y">10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10161-y <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> $伪$-event Characterization and Rejection in Point-Contact HPGe Detectors </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=The+MAJORANA+Collaboration"> The MAJORANA Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Blalock%2C+E">E. Blalock</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwards%2C+T+R">T. R. Edwards</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (40 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2006.13179v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> P-type point contact (PPC) HPGe detectors are a leading technology for rare event searches due to their excellent energy resolution, low thresholds, and multi-site event rejection capabilities. We have characterized a PPC detector's response to $伪$ particles incident on the sensitive passivated and p+ surfaces, a previously poorly-understood source of background. The detector studied is identical… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2006.13179v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2006.13179v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2006.13179v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> P-type point contact (PPC) HPGe detectors are a leading technology for rare event searches due to their excellent energy resolution, low thresholds, and multi-site event rejection capabilities. We have characterized a PPC detector's response to $伪$ particles incident on the sensitive passivated and p+ surfaces, a previously poorly-understood source of background. The detector studied is identical to those in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment, a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) in $^{76}$Ge. $伪$ decays on most of the passivated surface exhibit significant energy loss due to charge trapping, with waveforms exhibiting a delayed charge recovery (DCR) signature caused by the slow collection of a fraction of the trapped charge. The DCR is found to be complementary to existing methods of $伪$ identification, reliably identifying $伪$ background events on the passivated surface of the detector. We demonstrate effective rejection of all surface $伪$ events (to within statistical uncertainty) with a loss of only 0.2% of bulk events by combining the DCR discriminator with previously-used methods. The DCR discriminator has been used to reduce the background rate in the $0谓尾尾$ region of interest window by an order of magnitude in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, and will be used in the upcoming LEGEND-200 experiment. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2006.13179v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2006.13179v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 14 March, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 23 June, 2020; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2020. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Accepted for publication in European Journal of Physics C</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04128">arXiv:2003.04128</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.04128">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2003.04128">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2020.3043671">10.1109/TNS.2020.3043671 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Allmond%2C+J+M">J. M. Allmond</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Campbell%2C+C+M">C. M. Campbell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Crawford%2C+H+L">H. L. Crawford</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2003.04128v4-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for the Majorana Demonstrator 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay search. Enabling the experiment's high-resolution spectral analysis and efficient pulse shape discrimination required careful measurement and correction of ADC… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2003.04128v4-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2003.04128v4-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2003.04128v4-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for the Majorana Demonstrator 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay search. Enabling the experiment's high-resolution spectral analysis and efficient pulse shape discrimination required careful measurement and correction of ADC nonlinearites. A simple measurement protocol was developed that did not require sophisticated equipment or lengthy data taking campaigns. A slope-dependent hysteresis was observed and characterized. A correction applied to digitized waveforms prior to signal processing reduced the differential and integral nonlinearites by an order of magnitude, eliminating these as dominant contributions to the systematic energy uncertainty at the double-beta decay Q value. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2003.04128v4-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2003.04128v4-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 24 March, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 4 March, 2020; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2020. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> LA-UR-20-21663 </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 359-367, March 2021 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06181">arXiv:1912.06181</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06181">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1912.06181">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics">astro-ph.CO</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012040">10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012040 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A Low Energy Rare Event Search with the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=MAJORANA+Collaboration"> MAJORANA Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Wiseman%2C+C">C. Wiseman</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (37 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1912.06181v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is sensitive to rare events near its energy threshold, including bosonic dark matter, solar axions, and lightly ionizing particles. In this analysis, a novel training set of low energy small-angle Compton scatter events is used to determine the efficiency of pulse shape analysis cuts, and we present updated bosonic dark matter and solar axion results from an 11.17 kg-y da… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1912.06181v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1912.06181v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1912.06181v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is sensitive to rare events near its energy threshold, including bosonic dark matter, solar axions, and lightly ionizing particles. In this analysis, a novel training set of low energy small-angle Compton scatter events is used to determine the efficiency of pulse shape analysis cuts, and we present updated bosonic dark matter and solar axion results from an 11.17 kg-y dataset using a 5 keV analysis threshold. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1912.06181v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1912.06181v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 12 December, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2019. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">4 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2019), September 9-13, 2019, Toyama, Japan</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05761">arXiv:1912.05761</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.05761">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1912.05761">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012115">10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012115 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Double-Beta Decay of $^{76}$Ge to Excited States of $^{76}$Se </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P">P-H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Clark%2C+M+L">M. L. Clark</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Drobizhev%2C+A">A. Drobizhev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Edwins%2C+D+W">D. W. Edwins</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a> , et al. (35 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1912.05761v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (E.S.) in $^{76}$Se using a modular array of high purity Germanium detectors. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three E.S.s of $^{76}$Se. The E.S. decays have a clear event signature consisting of a $尾尾$-decay with the prompt emission of one or two $纬$-rays, resulting in with high probability in a multi-site event.… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1912.05761v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1912.05761v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1912.05761v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge to excited states (E.S.) in $^{76}$Se using a modular array of high purity Germanium detectors. $^{76}$Ge can decay into three E.S.s of $^{76}$Se. The E.S. decays have a clear event signature consisting of a $尾尾$-decay with the prompt emission of one or two $纬$-rays, resulting in with high probability in a multi-site event. The granularity of the DEMONSTRATOR detector array enables powerful discrimination of this event signature from backgrounds. Using 21.3 kg-y of isotopic exposure, the DEMONSTRATOR has set world leading limits for each E.S. decay, with 90% CL lower half-life limits in the range of $(0.56-2.1)\cdot10^{24}$ y. In particular, for the $2谓$ transition to the first $0^+$ E.S. of $^{76}$Se, a lower half-life limit of $0.68\cdot10^{24}$ at 90% CL was achieved. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1912.05761v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1912.05761v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 December, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2019. </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02299">arXiv:1902.02299</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.02299">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1902.02299">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.025501">10.1103/PhysRevC.100.025501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in $^{76}$Ge with 26 kg-yr of Exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Basu%2C+V">V. Basu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (39 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1902.02299v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44.1 kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched to 88% in $^{76}$Ge) split between two modules constructed from ultra-clean materials. Both modules are contained in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Fac… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1902.02299v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1902.02299v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1902.02299v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44.1 kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched to 88% in $^{76}$Ge) split between two modules constructed from ultra-clean materials. Both modules are contained in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. We present updated results on the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge with $26.0\pm0.5$ kg-yr of enriched exposure. With the DEMONSTRATOR's unprecedented energy resolution of 2.53 keV FWHM at $Q_{尾尾}$, we observe one event in the region of interest with 0.65 events expected from the estimated background, resulting in a lower limit on the $^{76}$Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay half-life of $2.7\times10^{25}$ yr (90% CL) with a median sensitivity of $4.8\times10^{25}$ yr (90% CL). Depending on the matrix elements used, a 90% CL upper limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass in the range of 200-433 meV is obtained. The measured background in the low-background configurations is $11.9\pm2.0$ counts/(FWHM t yr). <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1902.02299v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1902.02299v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 February, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2019. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">11 pages, 11 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. C 100, 025501 (2019) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05388">arXiv:1901.05388</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.05388">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1901.05388">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.065501">10.1103/PhysRevC.99.065501 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Multi-site event discrimination for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Haufe%2C+C+R">C. R. Haufe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Hegedus%2C+R+J">R. J. Hegedus</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Hehn%2C+L">L. Hehn</a> , et al. (38 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1901.05388v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge using arrays of point-contact germanium detectors operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Background results in the neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest from data taken during construction, commissioning, and the start of full operations have been recently published. A pulse shape analysi… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1901.05388v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1901.05388v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1901.05388v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge using arrays of point-contact germanium detectors operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Background results in the neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest from data taken during construction, commissioning, and the start of full operations have been recently published. A pulse shape analysis cut applied to achieve this result, named AvsE, is described in this paper. This cut is developed to remove events whose waveforms are typical of multi-site energy deposits while retaining (90 +/- 3.5)% of single-site events. This pulse shape discrimination is based on the relationship between the maximum current and energy, and tuned using 228Th calibration source data. The efficiency uncertainty accounts for variation across detectors, energy, and time, as well as for the position distribution difference between calibration and $0谓尾尾$ events, established using simulations. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1901.05388v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1901.05388v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 16 January, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> January 2019. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">8 pages, 8 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. C 99, 065501 (2019) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08139">arXiv:1812.08139</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08139">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1812.08139">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1812.08139">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Myslik%2C+J">J. Myslik</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (43 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1812.08139v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modules of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, operating at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1812.08139v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1812.08139v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1812.08139v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modules of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, operating at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Commissioning of the experiment began in June 2015, followed by data production with the full detector array in August 2016. The ultra-low background and record energy resolution achieved by the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR enable a sensitive neutrinoless double-beta decay search, as well as additional searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. I will discuss the design elements that enable these searches, along with the latest results, focusing on the neutrinoless double-beta decay search. I will also discuss the current status and the future plans of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, as well as the plans for a future tonne-scale $^{76}$Ge experiment. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1812.08139v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1812.08139v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 19 December, 2018; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2018. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">4 pages. Proceedings of The 39th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2018), 4-11 July, 2018, Seoul, Korea. Submitted to Proceedings of Science</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01090">arXiv:1812.01090</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.01090">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1812.01090">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.072004">10.1103/PhysRevD.99.072004 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for Tri-Nucleon Decay in the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (41 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1812.01090v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is an ultra low-background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The heavily shielded array of germanium detectors, placed nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, also allows searches for new exotic physics. We present the first limits for tri-nucleon decay-specific modes and invisible d… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1812.01090v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1812.01090v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1812.01090v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Demonstrator is an ultra low-background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The heavily shielded array of germanium detectors, placed nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, also allows searches for new exotic physics. We present the first limits for tri-nucleon decay-specific modes and invisible decay modes for Ge isotopes. We find a half-life limit of $4.9 \times 10^{25}$ yr for the decay $^{76}{\rm Ge(ppn)} \to {}^{73}{\rm Zn}\ e^+蟺^+$ and $4.7\times10^{25}$ yr for the decay $^{76}{\rm Ge(ppp)} \to ^{73}{\rm Cu}\ e^+蟺^+蟺^+$. The half-life limit for the invisible tri-proton decay mode of $^{76}$Ge was found to be $7.5\times10^{24}$ yr. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1812.01090v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1812.01090v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 26 March, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 3 December, 2018; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2018. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Updated after suggested figure additions from referees</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. D 99, 072004 (2019) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.11220">arXiv:1803.11220</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.11220">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1803.11220">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817801006">10.1051/epjconf/201817801006 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator Status and Preliminary Results </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Yu%2C+C+-">C. -H. Yu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y+-">Y. -D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M">M. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a> , et al. (41 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1803.11220v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Collaboration is using an array of high-purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay are understood to be the only viable experimental method for testing the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Observation of this decay would imply violation of lepton number, that neutrinos are Majorana in nature, and provide inform… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1803.11220v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1803.11220v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1803.11220v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Collaboration is using an array of high-purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay are understood to be the only viable experimental method for testing the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Observation of this decay would imply violation of lepton number, that neutrinos are Majorana in nature, and provide information on the neutrino mass. The Majorana Demonstrator comprises 44.1 kg of p-type point-contact Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched in 76Ge) surrounded by a low-background shield system. The experiment achieved a high efficiency of converting raw Ge material to detectors and an unprecedented detector energy resolution of 2.5 keV FWHM at Q$_{尾尾}$. The Majorana collaboration began taking physics data in 2016. This paper summarizes key construction aspects of the Demonstrator and shows preliminary results from initial data. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1803.11220v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1803.11220v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 29 March, 2018; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2018. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">5 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding for the "16th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics (CGS16)", 18-22 September 2017</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11145">arXiv:1711.11145</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.11145">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1711.11145">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Initial Results from the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a> , et al. (47 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.11145v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration has assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge with the goal of establishing the required background and scalability of a Ge-based next-generation ton-scale experiment. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44 kg of high-purity Ge (HPGe) detectors (30 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) with a low-noise p-type point con… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.11145v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1711.11145v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.11145v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration has assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge with the goal of establishing the required background and scalability of a Ge-based next-generation ton-scale experiment. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44 kg of high-purity Ge (HPGe) detectors (30 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) with a low-noise p-type point contact (PPC) geometry. The detectors are split between two modules which are contained in a single lead and high-purity copper shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Following a commissioning run that started in June 2015, the full detector array has been acquiring data since August 2016. We will discuss the status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR and initial results from the first physics run; including current background estimates, exotic low-energy physics searches, projections on the physics reach of the DEMONSTRATOR, and implications for a ton-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay search. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.11145v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1711.11145v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 29 November, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Proceedings of TAUP 2017: XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (24-28 July 2017, Sudbury, ON, Canada)</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10361">arXiv:1711.10361</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10361">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1711.10361">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5019001">10.1063/1.5019001 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Contamination Control and Assay Results for the Majorana Demonstrator Ultra Clean Components </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (45 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.10361v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment utilizing enriched Ge-76 detectors in 2 separate modules inside of a common solid shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The DEMONSTRATOR has utilized world leading assay sensitivities to develop clean materials and processes for producing ultra-pure copper and plastic components. This experiment is now operatin… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.10361v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1711.10361v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.10361v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment utilizing enriched Ge-76 detectors in 2 separate modules inside of a common solid shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The DEMONSTRATOR has utilized world leading assay sensitivities to develop clean materials and processes for producing ultra-pure copper and plastic components. This experiment is now operating, and initial data provide new insights into the success of cleaning and processing. Post production copper assays after the completion of Module 1 showed an increase in U and Th contamination in finished parts compared to starting bulk material. A revised cleaning method and additional round of surface contamination studies prior to Module 2 construction have provided evidence that more rigorous process control can reduce surface contamination. This article describes the assay results and discuss further studies to take advantage of assay capabilities for the purpose of maintaining ultra clean fabrication and process design. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.10361v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1711.10361v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 28 November, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Proceedings of Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT May 2017, Seoul)</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> AIP Conference Proceedings 1921, 060005 (2018) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03177">arXiv:1711.03177</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03177">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1711.03177">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1711.03177">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Spectral analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator experiment </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Hehn%2C+L">L. Hehn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P">P-H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a> , et al. (46 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.03177v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}\textrm{Ge}$-enriched germanium detectors totaling 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched detectors), located at the 4850' level of the Sanf… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.03177v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1711.03177v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1711.03177v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}\textrm{Ge}$-enriched germanium detectors totaling 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched detectors), located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Data taken with this setup since summer 2015 at different construction stages of the experiment show a clear reduction of the observed background index around the ROI for $0谓尾尾$-decay search due to improvements in shielding. We discuss the statistical approaches to search for a $0谓尾尾$-signal and derive the physics sensitivity for an expected exposure of $10\,\textrm{kg}{\cdot}\textrm{y}$ from enriched detectors using a profile likelihood based hypothesis test in combination with toy Monte Carlo data. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1711.03177v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1711.03177v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 8 November, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">5 page, 2 figures, to appear in Proceedings of TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, 24 - 28 July 2017, Sudbury, ON, Canada</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11608">arXiv:1710.11608</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.11608">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1710.11608">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.132502">10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.132502 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for Zero-Neutrino Double Beta Decay in 76Ge with the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aalseth%2C+C+E">C. E. Aalseth</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aguayo%2C+E">E. Aguayo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Amman%2C+M">M. Amman</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Back%2C+H+O">H. O. Back</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barbeau%2C+P+S">P. S. Barbeau</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+P+J">P. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bos%2C+B">B. Bos</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boswell%2C+M">M. Boswell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brodzinski%2C+R+L">R. L. Brodzinski</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a> , et al. (104 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1710.11608v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Here we present results from data taken during construct… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1710.11608v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1710.11608v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1710.11608v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Here we present results from data taken during construction, commissioning, and the start of full operations. We achieve unprecedented energy resolution of 2.5 keV FWHM at \qval\ and a very low background with no observed candidate events in 10 kg yr of enriched Ge exposure, resulting in a lower limit on the half-life of $1.9\times10^{25}$ yr (90\% CL). This result constrains the effective Majorana neutrino mass to below 240 to 520 meV, depending on the matrix elements used. In our experimental configuration with the lowest background, the background is $4.0_{-2.5}^{+3.1}$ counts/(FWHM t yr). <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1710.11608v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1710.11608v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 26 March, 2018; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 31 October, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">typos fixed</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132502 (2018) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01980">arXiv:1709.01980</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01980">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1709.01980">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1709.01980">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007652">10.1063/1.5007652 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND) </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=LEGEND+Collaboration"> LEGEND Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abramov%2C+A">A. Abramov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abrosimov%2C+N">N. Abrosimov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abt%2C+I">I. Abt</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agostini%2C+M">M. Agostini</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agartioglu%2C+M">M. Agartioglu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ajjaq%2C+A">A. Ajjaq</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bai%2C+X">X. Bai</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Balata%2C+M">M. Balata</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabanov%2C+I">I. Barabanov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+P+J">P. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baudis%2C+L">L. Baudis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bezrukov%2C+L">L. Bezrukov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bolozdynya%2C+A">A. Bolozdynya</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Borowicz%2C+D">D. Borowicz</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boston%2C+A">A. Boston</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boston%2C+H">H. Boston</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boyd%2C+S+T+P">S. T. P. Boyd</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Breier%2C+R">R. Breier</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a> , et al. (208 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1709.01980v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0$谓尾尾$) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutrino mass. A discovery-capable experiment covering the inverted ordering region, with effective Majorana neutrino masses of 15 - 50 meV, will require a tonne-scale experiment with excellent energy resolution and extremely… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1709.01980v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1709.01980v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1709.01980v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0$谓尾尾$) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on neutrino mass. A discovery-capable experiment covering the inverted ordering region, with effective Majorana neutrino masses of 15 - 50 meV, will require a tonne-scale experiment with excellent energy resolution and extremely low backgrounds, at the level of $\sim$0.1 count /(FWHM$\cdot$t$\cdot$yr) in the region of the signal. The current generation $^{76}$Ge experiments GERDA and the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR utilizing high purity Germanium detectors with an intrinsic energy resolution of 0.12%, have achieved the lowest backgrounds by over an order of magnitude in the 0$谓尾尾$ signal region of all 0$谓尾尾$ experiments. Building on this success, the LEGEND collaboration has been formed to pursue a tonne-scale $^{76}$Ge experiment. The collaboration aims to develop a phased 0$谓尾尾$ experimental program with discovery potential at a half-life approaching or at $10^{28}$ years, using existing resources as appropriate to expedite physics results. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1709.01980v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1709.01980v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 September, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> September 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Proceedings of the MEDEX'17 meeting (Prague, May 29 - June 2, 2017)</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> AIP Conference Proceedings 1894, 020027 (2017); </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07562">arXiv:1708.07562</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07562">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1708.07562">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1708.07562">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007635">10.1063/1.5007635 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Status and Initial Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Experiment </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alvis%2C+S+I">S. I. Alvis</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barton%2C+C+J">C. J. Barton</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bode%2C+T">T. Bode</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a> , et al. (45 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1708.07562v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is comprised of 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched in Ge-76) of Ge de… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1708.07562v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1708.07562v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1708.07562v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is comprised of 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched in Ge-76) of Ge detectors divided between two modules contained in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The initial goals of the DEMONSTRATOR are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based next-generation ton-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that started in 2015, the first detector module started low-background data production in early 2016. The second detector module was added in August 2016 to begin operation of the entire array. We discuss results of the initial physics runs, as well as the status and physics reach of the full MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1708.07562v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1708.07562v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 24 August, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Proceedings of the MEDEX'17 meeting (Prague, May 29 - June 2, 2017)</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> AIP Conference Proceedings 1894, 020010 (2017) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06255">arXiv:1707.06255</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06255">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1707.06255">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.036">10.1016/j.nima.2017.09.036 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Processing of Enriched Germanium for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR and R&D for a Possible Future Ton-Scale Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Experiment </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caja%2C+J">J. Caja</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caja%2C+M">M. Caja</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunstan%2C+D+T">D. T. Dunstan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (45 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1707.06255v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of point-contact Ge detectors fabricated from Ge isotopically enriched to 88% in Ge-76 to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The processing of Ge for germanium detectors is a well-known technology. However, because of the high cost of Ge enriched in Ge-76, special procedures were required to maximize the yield of detector mass and to minimize exposure… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1707.06255v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1707.06255v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1707.06255v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of point-contact Ge detectors fabricated from Ge isotopically enriched to 88% in Ge-76 to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The processing of Ge for germanium detectors is a well-known technology. However, because of the high cost of Ge enriched in Ge-76, special procedures were required to maximize the yield of detector mass and to minimize exposure to cosmic rays. These procedures include careful accounting for the material; shielding it to reduce cosmogenic generation of radioactive isotopes; and development of special reprocessing techniques for contaminated solid germanium, shavings, grindings, acid etchant and cutting fluids from detector fabrication. Processing procedures were developed that resulted in a total yield in detector mass of 70%. However, none of the acid-etch solution and only 50% of the cutting fluids from detector fabrication were reprocessed. Had they been processed, the projections for the recovery yield would be between 80 -- 85%. Maximizing yield is critical to justify a possible future ton-scale experiment. A process for recovery of germanium from the acid-etch solution was developed with yield of about 90%. All material was shielded or stored underground whenever possible to minimize the formation of Ge-68 by cosmic rays, which contributes background in the double-beta decay region of interest and cannot be removed by zone refinement and crystal growth. Formation of Ge-68 was reduced by a significant factor over that in natural abundance detectors not protected from cosmic rays. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1707.06255v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1707.06255v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 19 July, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Submitted to NIM-A</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 877 (2018) 314-322 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.02466">arXiv:1702.02466</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.02466">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1702.02466">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.005">10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.005 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator calibration system </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boswell%2C+M">M. Boswell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fu%2C+Z">Z. Fu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gehman%2C+V+M">V. M. Gehman</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1702.02466v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the aim of implementing background reduction techniques suitable for a 1-tonne $^{76}$Ge-based search. The ultra low-background conditions require regular calibrations to verify proper function of the detectors. Radioact… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1702.02466v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1702.02466v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1702.02466v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus $^{76}$Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the aim of implementing background reduction techniques suitable for a 1-tonne $^{76}$Ge-based search. The ultra low-background conditions require regular calibrations to verify proper function of the detectors. Radioactive line sources can be deployed around the cryostats containing the detectors for regular energy calibrations. When measuring in low-background mode, these line sources have to be stored outside the shielding so they do not contribute to the background. The deployment and the retraction of the source are designed to be controlled by the data acquisition system and do not require any direct human interaction. In this paper, we detail the design requirements and implementation of the calibration apparatus, which provides the event rates needed to define the pulse-shape cuts and energy calibration used in the final analysis as well as data that can be compared to simulations. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1702.02466v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1702.02466v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 February, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2017. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> NIM A 872 (2017) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00886">arXiv:1612.00886</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00886">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1612.00886">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1612.00886">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.161801">10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.161801 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> New limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1612.00886v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal-limits above our background. Our most stringent DM constraints are set for 11.8… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1612.00886v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1612.00886v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1612.00886v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal-limits above our background. Our most stringent DM constraints are set for 11.8 keV mass particles, limiting $g_{Ae} <4.5\times 10^{-13}$ for pseudoscalars and $\frac{伪'}伪 < 9.7\times 10^{-28}$ for vectors. We also report a 14.4 keV solar axion coupling limit of $g_{AN}^{\mathrm{eff}}\times g_{Ae}~<~3.8 \times 10^{-17}$, a $\frac{1}{2}尾^2~<~8.5\times10^{-48}$ limit on the strength of PEPV electron transitions, and a lower limit on the electron lifetime of $蟿_e > 1.2 \times 10^{24}\;$yr for $e^- \rightarrow$ invisible. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1612.00886v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1612.00886v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 11 April, 2017; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 2 December, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161801 (2017) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06141">arXiv:1610.06141</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.06141">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1610.06141">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4467-0">10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4467-0 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle Violating Atomic Transitions and Electron Decay with a P-type Point Contact Germanium Detector </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Finnerty%2C+P+S">P. S Finnerty</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (44 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.06141v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating K-alpha electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium detector operated at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. A lower limit on the transition lifetime of 5.8x10^30 seconds at 90% C.L. was set by looking for a peak at 10.6 keV resulting from the x-ray and Auger electr… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.06141v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1610.06141v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.06141v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating K-alpha electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium detector operated at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. A lower limit on the transition lifetime of 5.8x10^30 seconds at 90% C.L. was set by looking for a peak at 10.6 keV resulting from the x-ray and Auger electrons present following the transition. A similar analysis was done to look for the decay of atomic K-shell electrons into neutrinos, resulting in a lower limit of 6.8x10^30 seconds at 90 C.L. It is estimated that the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 44 kg array of p-type point contact detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge, could improve upon these exclusion limits by an order of magnitude after three years of operation. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.06141v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1610.06141v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 19 October, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2016. </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03054">arXiv:1610.03054</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.03054">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1610.03054">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012079">10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012079 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Delayed charge recovery discrimination of passivated surface alpha events in P-type point-contact detectors </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+H">P. H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fullmer%2C+A">A. Fullmer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (43 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.03054v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The Majorana Demonstrator searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge using arrays of high-purity germanium detectors. If observed, this process would demonstrate that lepton number is not a conserved quantity in nature, with implications for grand-unification and for explaining the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. A problematic background in such large granular… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.03054v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1610.03054v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.03054v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The Majorana Demonstrator searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{76}$Ge using arrays of high-purity germanium detectors. If observed, this process would demonstrate that lepton number is not a conserved quantity in nature, with implications for grand-unification and for explaining the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. A problematic background in such large granular detector arrays is posed by alpha particles. In the Majorana Demonstrator, events have been observed that are consistent with energy- degraded alphas originating on the passivated surface, leading to a potential background contribution in the region-of-interest for neutrinoless double-beta decay. However, it is also observed that when energy deposition occurs very close to the passivated surface, charges drift through the bulk onto that surface, and then drift along it with greatly reduced mobility. This leads to both a reduced prompt signal and a measurable change in slope of the tail of a recorded pulse. In this contribution we discuss the characteristics of these events and the development of a filter that can identify the occurrence of this delayed charge recovery, allowing for the efficient rejection of passivated surface alpha events in analysis. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.03054v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1610.03054v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 7 October, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">3 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01210">arXiv:1610.01210</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01210">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1610.01210">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012035">10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012035 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Initial Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fullmer%2C+A">A. Fullmer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.01210v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} is composed of 44.8~kg (29.7 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge)… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.01210v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1610.01210v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.01210v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} is composed of 44.8~kg (29.7 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) of Ge detectors in total, split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The initial goals of the {\sc Demonstrator} are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based, next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that began in 2015, the first detector module started physics data production in early 2016. We will discuss initial results of the Module 1 commissioning and first physics run, as well as the status and potential physics reach of the full {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} experiment. The collaboration plans to complete the assembly of the second detector module by mid-2016 to begin full data production with the entire array. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.01210v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1610.01210v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 4 October, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Neutrino 2016 proceeding</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01146">arXiv:1610.01146</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01146">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1610.01146">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012240">10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012240 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Background model for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+T+S">T. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fullmer%2C+A">A. Fullmer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.01146v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing a system containing 44 kg of high-purity Ge (HPGe) detectors to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a future tonne-scale experiment capable of probing the neutrino mass scale to ~15 meV. To realize this, a major goal of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/(ROI-t-y) in the 4… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.01146v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1610.01146v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1610.01146v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing a system containing 44 kg of high-purity Ge (HPGe) detectors to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a future tonne-scale experiment capable of probing the neutrino mass scale to ~15 meV. To realize this, a major goal of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the Q-value at 2039 keV. This goal is pursued through a combination of a significant reduction of radioactive impurities in construction materials and analytical methods for background rejection, for example using powerful pulse shape analysis techniques profiting from the p-type point contact HPGe detectors technology. The effectiveness of these methods is assessed using simulations of the different background components whose purity levels are constrained from radioassay measurements. Preliminary background results obtained during the engineering runs of the Demonstrator are presented. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1610.01146v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1610.01146v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 3 October, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">3 pages, 3 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07340">arXiv:1608.07340</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.07340">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1608.07340">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator search for neutrinoless double beta decay </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Leon%2C+J">J. Leon</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Robertson%2C+R+G+H">R. G. H. Robertson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Mertens%2C+S">S. Mertens</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Poon%2C+A+W+P">A. W. P. Poon</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Vetter%2C+K">K. Vetter</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Hoppe%2C+E+W">E. W. Hoppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Kouzes%2C+R+T">R. T. Kouzes</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Orrell%2C+J+L">J. L. Orrell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Konovalov%2C+S+I">S. I. Konovalov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Yumatov%2C+V">V. Yumatov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Radford%2C+D+C">D. C. Radford</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Varner%2C+R+L">R. L. Varner</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1608.07340v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44.8-kg (29.7 kg enriched >88% in Ge-76) to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The next generation of tonnescale Ge-based neutrinoless double beta decay searches will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region. The MAJORANA… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1608.07340v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1608.07340v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1608.07340v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44.8-kg (29.7 kg enriched >88% in Ge-76) to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The next generation of tonnescale Ge-based neutrinoless double beta decay searches will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is envisioned to demonstrate a path forward to achieve a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value of 2039 keV. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR follows a modular implementation to be easily scalable to the next generation experiment. First data taken with the DEMONSTRATOR are introduced here. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1608.07340v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1608.07340v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 29 August, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 25 August, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> August 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08483">arXiv:1603.08483</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08483">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1603.08483">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.006">10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.006 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> High voltage testing for the MAJORANA Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Doe%2C+P+J">P. J. Doe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Fu%2C+Z">Z. Fu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a> , et al. (48 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1603.08483v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 44-kg modular high-purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The phenomenon of surface micro-discharge induced by high-voltage has been studied in the context of the MAJORANA Demonstrator. This effect can damage the front-end electronics or mimic detector sign… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1603.08483v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1603.08483v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1603.08483v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 44-kg modular high-purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The phenomenon of surface micro-discharge induced by high-voltage has been studied in the context of the MAJORANA Demonstrator. This effect can damage the front-end electronics or mimic detector signals. To ensure the correct performance, every high-voltage cable and feedthrough must be capable of supplying HPGe detector operating voltages as high as 5 kV without exhibiting discharge. R&D measurements were carried out to understand the testing system and determine the optimum design configuration of the high-voltage path, including different improvements of the cable layout and feedthrough flange model selection. Every cable and feedthrough to be used at the MAJORANA Demonstrator was characterized and the micro-discharge effects during the MAJORANA Demonstrator commissioning phase were studied. A stable configuration has been achieved, and the cables and connectors can supply HPGe detector operating voltages without exhibiting discharge. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1603.08483v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1603.08483v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 28 March, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 28 March, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">9 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables, submitted to NIM A</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07742">arXiv:1602.07742</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07742">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1602.07742">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.01.013">10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.01.013 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Muon Flux Measurements at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the Majorana Demonstrator Veto System </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aguayo%2C+E">E. Aguayo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">C. Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (49 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1602.07742v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We report the first measurement of the total MUON flux underground at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the 4850 ft level. Measurements were done with the Majorana Demonstrator veto system arranged in two different configurations. The measured total flux is (5.31+/-0.17) x 10^-9 muons/s/cm^2. </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1602.07742v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We report the first measurement of the total MUON flux underground at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the 4850 ft level. Measurements were done with the Majorana Demonstrator veto system arranged in two different configurations. The measured total flux is (5.31+/-0.17) x 10^-9 muons/s/cm^2. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1602.07742v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1602.07742v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 7 September, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 24 February, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">15 pages, 7 figures</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Astro. Phys. Volume 93 (2017) 70 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03779">arXiv:1601.03779</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.03779">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1601.03779">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.070">10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.070 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator Radioassay Program </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Back%2C+H+O">H. O. Back</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Boswell%2C+M">M. Boswell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunmore%2C+J+A">J. A. Dunmore</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Finnerty%2C+P">P. Finnerty</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gehman%2C+V+M">V. M. Gehman</a> , et al. (60 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1601.03779v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTATOR at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, SD. The apparatus will use Ge detectors, enriched in isotope \nuc{76}{Ge}, to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale Ge detector experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The long half-life of this postulated process requires tha… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1601.03779v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1601.03779v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1601.03779v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTATOR at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, SD. The apparatus will use Ge detectors, enriched in isotope \nuc{76}{Ge}, to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale Ge detector experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The long half-life of this postulated process requires that the apparatus be extremely low in radioactive isotopes whose decays may produce backgrounds to the search. The radioassay program conducted by the collaboration to ensure that the materials comprising the apparatus are sufficiently pure is described. The resulting measurements of the radioactive-isotope contamination for a number of materials studied for use in the detector are reported. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1601.03779v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1601.03779v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 22 April, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 14 January, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> January 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">to be submitted to NIM</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00395">arXiv:1511.00395</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.00395">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1511.00395">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">Julieta Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">Nicolas Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I">Isaac Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F">Frank Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A">Alexander Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F">Fred Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A">Adam Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">Viktor Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">Matthew Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">Micah Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">Dana Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A">Adam Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Yuen-Dat Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C">Cabot-Ann Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P">Pinghan Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">Clara Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J">Jason Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dunagan%2C+C">Colter Dunagan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yuri Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">Hiroyasu Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S">Steven Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">Alfredo Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">Tom Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">Graham K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">Johnny Goett</a> , et al. (45 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1511.00395v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> 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 beyond neutrino physics, with implications for Grand Unification and leptogenesis. The \textsc{Majorana} Collaboration is assembling a low-background array of high… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1511.00395v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1511.00395v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1511.00395v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> 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 beyond neutrino physics, with implications for Grand Unification and leptogenesis. The \textsc{Majorana} Collaboration is assembling a low-background array of high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator}, which is currently being constructed and commissioned at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, will contain 44 kg (30 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) of HPGe detectors. Its primary goal is to demonstrate the scalability and background required for a tonne-scale Ge experiment. This is accomplished via a modular design and projected background of less than 3 cnts/tonne-yr in the region of interest. The experiment is currently taking data with the first of its enriched detectors. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1511.00395v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1511.00395v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 2 November, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> November 2015. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015. 6 pages. 5 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07612">arXiv:1507.07612</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.07612">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1507.07612">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baldenegro-Barrera%2C+C+X">C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chu%2C+P+-">P. -H. Chu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (45 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1507.07612v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44-kg (29 kg 76Ge and 15 kg natGe) to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double beta decay searches will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region. The MAJORANA DEMON… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1507.07612v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1507.07612v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1507.07612v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44-kg (29 kg 76Ge and 15 kg natGe) to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76. The next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double beta decay searches will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is envisioned to demonstrate a path forward to achieve a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value of 2039 keV. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR follows a modular implementation to be easily scalable to the next generation experiment. First, the prototype module was assembled; it has been continuously taking data from July 2014 to June 2015. Second, Module 1 with more than half of the total enriched detectors and some natural detectors has been assembled and it is being commissioned. Finally, the assembly of Module 2, which will complete MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, is already in progress. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1507.07612v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1507.07612v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 27 July, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> July 2015. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">4 pages, 3 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04279">arXiv:1506.04279</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04279">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1506.04279">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4927982">10.1063/1.4927982 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I">I. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baldenegro-Barrera%2C+C+X">C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bradley%2C+A+W">A. W. Bradley</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gilliss%2C+T">T. Gilliss</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a> , et al. (43 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1506.04279v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) in 76Ge using isotopically enriched p-type point contact (PPC) high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. A tonne-scale array of HPGe detectors would require background levels below 1 count/ROI-tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value of the decay. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1506.04279v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1506.04279v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1506.04279v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) in 76Ge using isotopically enriched p-type point contact (PPC) high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. A tonne-scale array of HPGe detectors would require background levels below 1 count/ROI-tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value of the decay. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of such an experiment, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 40 kg HPGe detector array, is being constructed with a background goal of <3 counts/ROI-tonne-year, which is expected to scale down to <1 count/ROI-tonne-year for a tonne-scale experiment. The signal readout electronics, which must be placed in close proximity to the detectors, present a challenge toward reaching this background goal. This talk will discuss the materials and design used to construct signal readout electronics with low enough backgrounds for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1506.04279v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1506.04279v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 13 June, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2015. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. LRT 2015 Proceedings</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03174">arXiv:1502.03174</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03174">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1502.03174">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012009">10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012009 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I">I. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Henning%2C+R">R. Henning</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Hoppe%2C+E+W">E. W. Hoppe</a> , et al. (40 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1502.03174v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a planned 40 kg array of Germanium detectors intended to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a tonne-scale experiment that will seek neutrinoless double beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Such an experiment would require backgrounds of less than 1 count/tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest around the 2039 keV Q-value of the $尾尾$ decay. Designing l… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1502.03174v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1502.03174v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1502.03174v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a planned 40 kg array of Germanium detectors intended to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a tonne-scale experiment that will seek neutrinoless double beta decay ($0谓尾尾$) in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Such an experiment would require backgrounds of less than 1 count/tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest around the 2039 keV Q-value of the $尾尾$ decay. Designing low-noise electronics, which must be placed in close proximity to the detectors, presents a challenge to reaching this background target. This paper will discuss the MAJORANA collaboration's solutions to some of these challenges. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1502.03174v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1502.03174v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 10 February, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2015. </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01742">arXiv:1502.01742</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01742">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1502.01742">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012005">10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012005 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> MAJORANA Collaboration's Experience with Germanium Detectors </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Mertens%2C+S">S. Mertens</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I">I. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Henning%2C+R">R. Henning</a> , et al. (40 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1502.01742v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The goal of the \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} project is to search for 0$谓尾尾$ decay in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Of all candidate isotopes for 0$谓尾尾$, $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$ has some of the most favorable characteristics. Germanium detectors are a well established technology, and in searches for 0$谓尾尾$, the high purity germanium crystal acts simultaneously as source and detector. Furthermore, p-ty… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1502.01742v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1502.01742v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1502.01742v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The goal of the \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} project is to search for 0$谓尾尾$ decay in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Of all candidate isotopes for 0$谓尾尾$, $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$ has some of the most favorable characteristics. Germanium detectors are a well established technology, and in searches for 0$谓尾尾$, the high purity germanium crystal acts simultaneously as source and detector. Furthermore, p-type germanium detectors provide excellent energy resolution and a specially designed point contact geometry allows for sensitive pulse shape discrimination. This paper will summarize the experiences the \textsc{Majorana} collaboration made with enriched germanium detectors manufactured by ORTEC$^{\circledR}$. The process from production, to characterization and integration in \textsc{Majorana} mounting structure will be described. A summary of the performance of all enriched germanium detectors will be given. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1502.01742v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1502.01742v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 5 February, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2015. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">10 pages, 8 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03089">arXiv:1501.03089</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.03089">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1501.03089">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012004">10.1088/1742-6596/606/1/012004 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> The Majorana Demonstrator: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of 76Ge </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Majorana+Collaboration"> Majorana Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Xu%2C+W">W. Xu</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Green%2C+M+P">M. P. Green</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I">I. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a> , et al. (41 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1501.03089v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a hypothesized process where in some even-even nuclei it might be possible for two neutrons to simultaneously decay into two protons and two electrons without emitting neutrinos. This is possible only if neutrinos are Majorana particles, i.e. fermions that are their own antiparticles. Neutrinos being Majorana particles would explicitly violate lepton number conser… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1501.03089v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1501.03089v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1501.03089v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a hypothesized process where in some even-even nuclei it might be possible for two neutrons to simultaneously decay into two protons and two electrons without emitting neutrinos. This is possible only if neutrinos are Majorana particles, i.e. fermions that are their own antiparticles. Neutrinos being Majorana particles would explicitly violate lepton number conservation, and might play a role in the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would also provide complementary information related to neutrino masses. The Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator, a 40-kg modular germanium detector array, to search for the Neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge and to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge Neutrinoless double-beta decay. In this paper, we discuss the physics of neutrinoless double beta decay and then focus on the Majorana Demonstrator, including its design and approach to achieve ultra-low backgrounds and the status of the experiment. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1501.03089v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1501.03089v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 9 May, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 13 January, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> January 2015. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Published Version. 10 pages, 6 figures, proceedings for the 2nd Workshop on Germanium Detectors and Technologies, 14-17 September 2014, at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> LA-UR-15-20211 </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> 2015 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 606 012004 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5682">arXiv:1412.5682</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.5682">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1412.5682">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Status of the MAJORANA Demonstrator </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Cuesta%2C+C">C. Cuesta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Abgrall%2C+N">N. Abgrall</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnquist%2C+I+J">I. J. Arnquist</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avignone%2C+F+T">F. T. Avignone III</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barabash%2C+A+S">A. S. Barabash</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bertrand%2C+F+E">F. E. Bertrand</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Brudanin%2C+V">V. Brudanin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Busch%2C+M">M. Busch</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">M. Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Byram%2C+D">D. Byram</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Caldwell%2C+A+S">A. S. Caldwell</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Chan%2C+Y">Y-D. Chan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Christofferson%2C+C+D">C. D. Christofferson</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Detwiler%2C+J+A">J. A. Detwiler</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Efremenko%2C+Y">Yu. Efremenko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ejiri%2C+H">H. Ejiri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Elliott%2C+S+R">S. R. Elliott</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Galindo-Uribarri%2C+A">A. Galindo-Uribarri</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Giovanetti%2C+G+K">G. K. Giovanetti</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Goett%2C+J">J. Goett</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Greenn%2C+M+P">M. P. Greenn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gruszko%2C+J">J. Gruszko</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guinn%2C+I+S">I. S. Guinn</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Guiseppe%2C+V+E">V. E. Guiseppe</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Henning%2C+R">R. Henning</a> , et al. (42 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1412.5682v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the Demonstrator is to d… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1412.5682v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1412.5682v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1412.5682v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the 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 current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1412.5682v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1412.5682v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 7 January, 2015; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 17 December, 2014; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2014. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">7 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the NOW 2014 Proceedings, to be published by Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2264">arXiv:1406.2264</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2264">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1406.2264">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Theory">nucl-th</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.90.024606">10.1103/PhysRevC.90.024606 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Corrections to Eikonal Approximation for Nuclear Scattering at Medium Energies </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Buuck%2C+M">Micah Buuck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Miller%2C+G+A">Gerald A. Miller</a> </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1406.2264v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University has reemphasized the importance of accurate modeling of low energy nucleus-nucleus scattering. Such calculations have been simplified by using the eikonal approximation. As a high energy approximation, however, its accuracy suffers for the medium energy beams… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1406.2264v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1406.2264v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1406.2264v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University has reemphasized the importance of accurate modeling of low energy nucleus-nucleus scattering. Such calculations have been simplified by using the eikonal approximation. As a high energy approximation, however, its accuracy suffers for the medium energy beams that are of current experimental interest. A prescription developed by Wallace \cite{Wallace:1971zz,Wallace:1973iu} that obtains the scattering propagator as an expansion around the eikonal propagator (Glauber approach) has the potential to extend the range of validity of the approximation to lower energies. Here we examine the properties of this expansion, and calculate the first-, second-, and third-order corrections for the scattering of a spinless particle off of a ${}^{40}$Ca nucleus, and for nuclear breakup reactions involving ${}^{11}$Be. We find that, including these corrections extends the lower bound of the range of validity of the down to energies of 40 MeV. At that energy the corrections provide as much as a 15\% correction to certain processes. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1406.2264v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1406.2264v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 12 June, 2014; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 9 June, 2014; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2014. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">17 pages 11 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:nucl-th/9607049 by other authors. This reference is credited and cited. Figure replacement and reference added</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> NT@UW-14-12 </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Phys. Rev. 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