FPD Seminar

Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in South Dakota: The Majorana Demonstrator

Name: Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in South Dakota: The Majorana Demonstrator
Start: 2014-03-11T12:30:00-07:00
End: 2014-03-11T13:30:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

by Ryan Martin (University of South Dakota)

Tuesday 11 Mar 2014, 12:30 → 13:30 America/Los_Angeles

40/1-195 - Sycamore (SLAC)

40/1-195 - Sycamore

SLAC

Description

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The experiment will deploy an array of ~30kg of point contact germanium detectors, enriched in 76Ge to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. One of the main goals of the experiments is to demonstrate a design with unprecedentedly low levels of backgrounds that is suitable to build a tonne scale experiment. This talk will give an overview and status of the experiment, as well as future prospects.

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Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in South Dakota: The Majorana Demonstrator

by Ryan Martin (University of South Dakota)

40/1-195 - Sycamore

SLAC