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Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector

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Aalseth, CE; Amman, M; Avignone, FT; Back, HO; Barabash, AS; Barbeau, PS; Bergevin, M; Bertrand, FE; Boswell, M; Brudanin, V; Bugg, W; Diaz, J ...
Published in: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
October 1, 2011

The Majorana Collaboration is building the Majorana Demonstrator, a 60 kg array of high purity germanium detectors housed in an ultra-low background shield at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The Majorana Demonstrator will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge while demonstrating the feasibility of a tonne-scale experiment. It may also carry out a dark matter search in the 110 GeV/c2 mass range. We have found that customized Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe) detectors produced by Canberra have several desirable features for a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment, including low electronic noise, excellent pulse shape analysis capabilities, and simple fabrication. We have deployed a customized BEGe, the Majorana Low-Background BEGe at Kimballton (MALBEK), in a low-background cryostat and shield at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility in Virginia. This paper will focus on the detector characteristics and measurements that can be performed with such a radiation detector in a low-background environment. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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0168-9002

Publication Date

October 1, 2011

Volume

652

Issue

1

Start / End Page

692 / 695

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Aalseth, C. E., Amman, M., Avignone, F. T., Back, H. O., Barabash, A. S., Barbeau, P. S., … Yumatov, V. (2011). Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 652(1), 692–695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.08.100
Aalseth, C. E., M. Amman, F. T. Avignone, H. O. Back, A. S. Barabash, P. S. Barbeau, M. Bergevin, et al. “Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 652, no. 1 (October 1, 2011): 692–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.08.100.
Aalseth CE, Amman M, Avignone FT, Back HO, Barabash AS, Barbeau PS, et al. Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2011 Oct 1;652(1):692–5.
Aalseth, C. E., et al. “Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 652, no. 1, Oct. 2011, pp. 692–95. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2010.08.100.
Aalseth CE, Amman M, Avignone FT, Back HO, Barabash AS, Barbeau PS, Bergevin M, Bertrand FE, Boswell M, Brudanin V, Bugg W, Burritt TH, Busch M, Capps G, Chan YD, Collar JI, Cooper RJ, Creswick R, Detwiler JA, Diaz J, Doe PJ, Efremenko Y, Egorov V, Ejiri H, Elliott SR, Ely J, Esterline J, Farach H, Fast JE, Fields N, Finnerty P, Fujikawa B, Fuller E, Gehman VM, Giovanetti GK, Guiseppe VE, Gusey K, Hallin AL, Harper GC, Hazama R, Henning R, Hime A, Hoppe EW, Hossbach TW, Howe MA, Johnson RA, Keeter KJ, Keillor M, Keller C, Kephart JD, Kidd MF, Knecht A, Kochetov O, Konovalov SI, Kouzes RT, Leviner L, Loach JC, Luke PN, MacMullin S, Marino MG, Martin RD, Mei DM, Miley HS, Miller ML, Mizouni L, Meyers AW, Nomachi M, Orrell JL, Peterson D, Phillips DG, Poon AWP, Prior G, Qian J, Radford DC, Rielage K, Robertson RGH, Rodriguez L, Rykaczewski KP, Salazar H, Schubert AG, Shima T, Shirchenko M, Steele D, Strain J, Swift G, Thomas K, Timkin V, Tornow W, Van Wechel TD, Vanyushin I, Varner RL, Vetter K, Wilkerson JF, Wolfe BA, Xiang W, Yakushev E, Yaver H, Young AR, Yu CH, Yumatov V. Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2011 Oct 1;652(1):692–695.
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Published In

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI

ISSN

0168-9002

Publication Date

October 1, 2011

Volume

652

Issue

1

Start / End Page

692 / 695

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences