Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 70-72 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings |
Volume | 265-266 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Germanium detector
- Majorana
- Neutrinoless double-beta decay