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Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator

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Giovanetti, GK; Aguayo, E; Avignone, FT; Back, HO; Barabash, AS; Beene, JR; Bergevin, M; Bertrand, FE; Boswell, M; Brudanin, V; Busch, M ...
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
January 1, 2012

The Majorana Demonstrator is an array of natural and enriched high purity germanium detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Germanium-76 and perform a search for weakly interacting massive particles with masses below 10 GeV. To reach the background rate goal in the neutrinoless double-beta decay region of interest of 4 counts/keV/t/y, the DEMONSTRATOR will utilize a number of background reduction strategies, including a time-correlated event cut for 68Ge that requires a sub-keV energy threshold. This low energy threshold allows the DEMONSTRATOR to extend its physics reach to include a search for light WIMPs. We will discuss the detector systems and data analysis techniques required to achieve sub-keV thresholds as well as present the projected dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator.

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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1742-6596

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1742-6588

Publication Date

January 1, 2012

Volume

375

Issue

PART 2

Related Subject Headings

  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences
  • 0204 Condensed Matter Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
 

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Giovanetti, G. K., Aguayo, E., Avignone, F. T., Back, H. O., Barabash, A. S., Beene, J. R., … Zhang, C. (2012). Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 375). https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/012014
Giovanetti, G. K., E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone, H. O. Back, A. S. Barabash, J. R. Beene, M. Bergevin, et al. “Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator.” In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 375, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/012014.
Giovanetti GK, Aguayo E, Avignone FT, Back HO, Barabash AS, Beene JR, et al. Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2012.
Giovanetti, G. K., et al. “Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 375, no. PART 2, 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/012014.
Giovanetti GK, Aguayo E, Avignone FT, Back HO, Barabash AS, Beene JR, Bergevin M, Bertrand FE, Boswell M, Brudanin V, Busch M, Chan YD, Christofferson CD, Collar JI, Combs DC, Cooper RJ, Detwiler JA, Doe PJ, Efremenko Y, Egorov V, Ejiri H, Elliott SR, Esterline J, Fast JE, Fields N, Finnerty P, Fraenkle FM, Gehman VM, Green MP, Guiseppe VE, Gusey K, Hallin AL, Hazama R, Henning R, Hoppe EW, Horton M, Howard S, Howe MA, Johnson RA, Keeter KJ, Keller C, Kidd MF, Knecht A, Kochetov O, Konovalov SI, Kouzes RT, LaFerriere BD, LaRoque BH, Leon J, Leviner LE, Loach JC, MacMullin S, Marino MG, Martin RD, Mei DM, Merriman JH, Miller ML, Mizouni L, Nomachi M, Orrell JL, Overman NR, Phillips DG, Poon AWP, Perumpilly G, Prior G, Radford DC, Rielage K, Robertson RGH, Ronquest MC, Schubert AG, Shima T, Shirchenko M, Snavely KJ, Steele D, Strain J, Thomas K, Timkin V, Tornow W, Vanyushin I, Varner RL, Vetter K, Vorren K, Wilkerson JF, Yakushev E, Young AR, Yu CH, Yumatov V, Zhang C. Dark matter sensitivities of the Majorana Demonstrator. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2012.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

DOI

EISSN

1742-6596

ISSN

1742-6588

Publication Date

January 1, 2012

Volume

375

Issue

PART 2

Related Subject Headings

  • 51 Physical sciences
  • 0299 Other Physical Sciences
  • 0204 Condensed Matter Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics