The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: An R and D project towards a tonne-scale germanium neutrinoless double-beta decay search
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Part of Proceedings, 10th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2009) : San Diego, USA, May 26-31, 2009, 88-91
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- AIP Conf.Proc. 1182 (2009) 1, 88-91
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- , 88-91
- CIPANP 2009
- Published: Dec 30, 2009
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- 0907.1581 [nucl-ex]
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The MAJORANA collaboration is pursuing the development of the so‐called MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. The DEMONSTRATOR is intended to perform research and development towards a tonne‐scale germanium‐based experiment to search for the neutrinoless double‐beta decay of 76Ge. The DEMONSTRATOR can also perform a competitive direct dark matter search for light WIMPs in the 1–10 GeV/c2 mass range. It will consist of approximately 60 kg of germanium detectors in an ultra‐low background shield located deep underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The DEMONSTRATOR will also perform background and technology studies, and half of the detector mass will be enriched germanium. This talk will review the motivation, design, technology and status of the Demonstrator.- 14.60.Pq
- 95.35.+d
- 96.60.Jw
- neutrinos
- neutrino oscillations
- dark matter
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