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The majorana neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment

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The proposed Majorana double-beta decay experiment is based on an array of segmented intrinsic Ge detectors with a total mass of 500 kg of Ge isotopically enriched to 86% in 76Ge. A discussion is given of background reduction by material selection, detector segmentation, pulse shape analysis, and electroformation of copper parts and granularity. Predictions of the experimental sensitivity are given. For an experimental running time of 10 years over the construction and operation oft he Majorana setup, a sensitivity of T 0ν1/2 ∼4×1027 yr is predicted. This corresponds to 〈mν〉∼0.003−0.004 eV according to recent QRPA and RQRPA matrix element calculations.

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  1. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

    C. E. Aalseth, D. Anderson, R. Arthur, R. L. Brodzinski, G. Dunham, S. Easterday, J. Ely, T. Hossbach, D. Jordan, R. T. Kouzes, H. S. Miley, W. K. Pitts, J. H. Reeves, C. Shawley & R. A. Warner

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    F. T. Avignone III, R. W. Creswick, H. A. Farach, T. Hossbach, G. S. King III, J. M. Palms & J. H. Reeves

  3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    C. Baktash, T. V. Cianciolo, Yu. V. Efremenko, R. Grzywacz, D. C. Radford & K. Rykaczewski

  4. P-Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    T. Ball, S. R. Elliott, H. Hime, G. B. Mills, R. G. van de Water, J. M. Wouters & V. I. Yumatov

  5. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Bol’shaya Cheremushkinskaya ul. 25, Moscow, 117259, Russia

    A. S. Barabash, S. I. Konovalov & V. N. Stekhanov

  6. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow oblast, 141980, Russia

    V. B. Brudanin, V. G. Egorov, O. I. Kochetov & V. G. Sandukovsky

  7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    W. Bugg & Yu. V. Efremenko

  8. Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC, USA

    A. E. Champagne, J. Kephart, R. M. Rohm, K. Saborov, W. Tornow & A. R. Young

  9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    A. E. Champagne

  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Y. -D. Chan, P. Fallon, K. T. Lesko, A. O. Macchiavelli & A. W. P. Poon

  11. Center for Cosmology, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    J. I. Collar

  12. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    P. J. Doe, V. Gehman, K. Kazkaz, R. G. H. Robertson & J. F. Wilkerson

  13. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Japan

    H. Ejiri, R. Hazma & M. Nomachi

  14. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    R. J. Gaitskell

  15. Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    J. Kephart, K. Saborov & A. R. Young

  16. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    R. M. Rohm & W. Tornow

  17. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

    K. Vetter

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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 67, No. 11, 2004, pp. 2025–2032.

Original English Text Copyright © 2004 by Aalseth, Anderson, Arthur, Avignone III, Baktash, Ball, Barabash, Brodzinski, Brudanin, Bugg, Champagne, Chan, Cianciolo, Collar, Creswick, Doe, Dunham, Easterday, Efremenko, Egorov, Ejiri, Elliott, Ely, Fallon, Farach, Gaitskell, Gehman, Grzywacz, Hazma, Hime, Hossbach, Jordan, Kazkaz, Kephart, King III, Kochetov, Konovalov, Kouzes, Lesko, Macchiavelli, Miley, Mills, Nomachi, Palms, Pitts, Poon, Radford, Reeves, Robertson, Rohm, Rykaczewski, Saborov, Sandukovsky, Shawley, Stekhanov, Tornow, van de Water, Vetter, Warner, Webb, Wilkerson, Wouters, Young, Yumatov.

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Aalseth, C.E., Anderson, D., Arthur, R. et al. The majorana neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 67, 2002–2010 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1825519

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