Status of the Majorana Demonstrator

• Published in: Nuclear and particle physics proceedings Vol. 265-266; pp. 70 - 72
• Main Authors: Cuesta, C., Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Bertrand, F.E., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Byram, D., Caldwell, A.S., Chan, Y.-D., Christofferson, C.D., Detwiler, J.A., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S.R., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G.K., Goett, J., Green, M.P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I.S., Guiseppe, V.E., Henning, R., Hoppe, E.W., Howard, S., Howe, M.A., Jasinski, B.R., Keeter, K.J., Kidd, M.F., Konovalov, S.I., Kouzes, R.T., LaFerriere, B.D., Leon, J., MacMullin, J., Martin, R.D., Meijer, S.J., Mertens, S., Orrell, J.L., O'Shaughnessy, C., Overman, N.R., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D.C., Rager, J., Rielage, K., Robertson, R.G.H., Romero-Romero, E., Schmitt, C., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Snyder, N., Suriano, A.M., Tedeschi, D., Timkin, V., Trimble, J.E., Varner, R.L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B.R., Wilkerson, J.F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier B.V 01.08.2015; Elsevier
• Subjects: germanium detector; majorana; neutrinoless double beta decay; majorana; neutrinoless double-beta decay; germanium detector
• ISSN: 2405-6014; 2405-6022
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.06.019

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 76Ge. 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.