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Publications (98)

physics.ins-det2023

Study of polysterene based scintillator ageing in the DANSS experiment

DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +30

DANSS is a spectrometer of reactor antineutrino based on plastic scintillator. The sensitive volume of the detector is made of 2500 polystyrene based scintillator plates with wavel…

physics.ins-det2017

Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

C. R. Haufe, A. L. Reine, N. Abgrall +68

The Majorana Demonstrator is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experi…

nucl-ex2013

Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +112

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a process that violates lepton number conservation. It is predicted to occur in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. This Letter…

nucl-ex2017

Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA

GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +103

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment located at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), is looking for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge76, by using high-purity g…

nucl-ex2025

Search for the in-situ production of Ge in the GERDA neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment

M. Agostini, A. Alexander, G. Araujo +108

The beta decay of Ge and Ge, both produced by neutron capture on Ge, is a potential background for Germanium based neutrinoless double-beta decay sea…

astro-ph.HE2014

A search for bremsstrahlung solar axions using the Majorana low-background BEGe detector at Kimballton (MALBEK)

N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone +76

A low-background, high-purity germanium detector has been used to search for evidence of low-energy, bremsstrahlung-generated solar axions. An upper bound of

nucl-ex2015

The Majorana Demonstrator: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of 76Ge

Majorana Collaboration, W. Xu, N. Abgrall +63

Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a hypothesized process where in some even-even nuclei it might be possible for two neutrons to simultaneously decay into two protons and two elect…

physics.ins-det2022

Liquid argon light collection and veto modeling in GERDA Phase II

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +115

The ability to detect liquid argon scintillation light from within a densely packed high-purity germanium detector array allowed the GERDA experiment to reach an exceptionally low…

physics.ins-det2014

Testing the Ge detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

W. Xu, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +84

High purity germanium (HPGe) crystals will be used for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, where they serve as both the source and the detector for neutrinoless double beta decay. It is cru…

nucl-ex2017

New limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +64

We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark…

physics.ins-det2013

DANSSino: a pilot version of the DANSS neutrino detector

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, V. Brudanin +24

DANSSino is a reduced pilot version of a solid-state detector of reactor antineutrinos (to be created within the DANSS project and installed under the industrial 3 GW(th) reactor o…

hep-ex2025

New constraints on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering by the nuGeN experiment

V. Belov, A. Bystryakov, M. Danilov +21

The nuGeN experiment searches for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. A 1.41-kg high-purity low-threshold germanium detector su…

nucl-ex2018

The Majorana Demonstrator Status and Preliminary Results

C. -H. Yu, S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist +63

The Majorana Collaboration is using an array of high-purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay are under…

nucl-ex2011

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of Germanium-76

MAJORANA Collaboration, A. G. Schubert, E. Aguayo +90

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would determine whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle and provide information on the absolute scale of neutrino mass. The MA…

hep-ex2019

Search for Tri-Nucleon Decay in the Majorana Demonstrator

S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +63

The Majorana Demonstrator is an ultra low-background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. The heavily shielded array of germanium detectors, placed…

hep-ex2018

Search for sterile neutrinos at the DANSS experiment

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, V. Brudanin +28

DANSS is a highly segmented 1~m plastic scintillator detector. Its 2500 one meter long scintillator strips have a Gd-loaded reflective cover. The DANSS detector is placed und…

physics.ins-det2016

Flux Modulations seen by the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +112

The GERDA experiment at LNGS of INFN is equipped with an active muon veto. The main part of the system is a water Cherenkov veto with 66~PMTs in the water tank surrounding the GERD…

physics.ins-det2016

The Performance of the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment

K. Freund, R. Falkenstein, P. Grabmayr +11

Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events. The GERDA experiment located at LNGS is searching for the neutrinless double beta decay of Ge…

nucl-ex2008

Operation of a GERDA Phase I prototype detector in liquid argon and nitrogen

M. Barnabé Heider, A. Bakalyarov, L. Bezrukov +14

The GERDA (GERmanium Detector Array) experiment aiming to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge at the Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, will opera…

physics.ins-det2021

LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261

We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one…

nucl-ex2011

The Majorana experiment: an ultra-low background search for neutrinoless double-beta decay

D. G. Phillips, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone +86

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would resolve the Majorana nature of the neutrino and could provide information on the absolute scale of the neutrino mass. The in…

nucl-ex2022

Search for exotic physics in double- decays with GERDA Phase II

The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +111

A search for Beyond the Standard Model double- decay modes of Ge has been performed with data collected during the Phase II of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) exper…

physics.ins-det2019

Characterization of 30 Ge enriched Broad Energy Ge detectors for GERDA Phase II

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +112

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) is a low background experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay o…

physics.ins-det2016

The Majorana Demonstrator search for neutrinoless double beta decay

C. Cuesta, M. Buuck, J. A. Detwiler +64

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44.8-kg (29.7 kg enriched >88% in Ge-76)…

physics.ins-det2021

Characterization of inverted coaxial Ge detectors in GERDA for future double- decay experiments

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +108

Neutrinoless double- decay of Ge is searched for with germanium detectors where source and detector of the decay are identical. For the success of future experiments it…

nucl-ex2022

First results of the nuGeN experiment on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

I. Alekseev, K. Balej, V. Belov +21

The nuGeN experiment is aimed to investigate neutrino properties using antineutrinos from the reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. The experimental setup is located at about…

hep-ex2018

First Limit on the Direct Detection of Lightly Ionizing Particles for Electric Charge as Low as /1000 with the \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator}

S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +61

The \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator} is an ultra low-background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. The heavily shielded array of germanium detector…

nucl-ex2015

Results on decay with emission of two neutrinos or Majorons in Ge from GERDA Phase I

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +109

A search for neutrinoless decay processes accompanied with Majoron emission has been performed using data collected during Phase I of the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) ex…

nucl-ex2017

Background free search for neutrinoless double beta decay with GERDA Phase II

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +113

The Standard Model of particle physics cannot explain the dominance of matter over anti-matter in our Universe. In many model extensions this is a very natural consequence of neutr…

physics.ins-det2022

Pulse shape analysis in GERDA Phase II

The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. Araujo +113

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge using isotopically enriched high purity germanium detectors at the Labor…

nucl-ex2018

Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge from GERDA Phase II

M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata +105

The GERDA experiment searches for the lepton number violating neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge (Ge Se + 2e) operating bare Ge diodes with…

physics.ins-det2017

Contamination Control and Assay Results for the Majorana Demonstrator Ultra Clean Components

C. D. Christofferson, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment utilizing enriched Ge-76 detectors in 2 separate modules inside of a common solid shield at the Sanford Und…

nucl-ex2016

Initial Results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

S. R. Elliott, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +64

Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc M…

physics.ins-det2015

Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

I. Guinn, N. Abgrall, F. T. Avignone +62

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a planned 40 kg array of Germanium detectors intended to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a tonne-scale experiment that will seek neutrinole…

nucl-ex2014

A Dark Matter Search with MALBEK

G. K. Giovanetti, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +84

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of natural and enriched high purity germanium detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge and perform a search…

physics.ins-det2025

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment's construction, commissioning, and performance

N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, I. J. Arnquist +108

Background: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR , a modular array of isotopically enriched high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors, was constructed to demonstrate backgrounds low enough to ju…

physics.ins-det2017

The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Abramov +230

The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on ne…

physics.ins-det2014

Background Model for the Majorana Demonstrator

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +84

The Majorana Collaboration is constructing a system containing 40 kg of HPGe detectors to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a future tonne-scale experiment capable of pr…

nucl-ex2018

Search for Zero-Neutrino Double Beta Decay in 76Ge with the Majorana Demonstrator

C. E. Aalseth, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +126

The \MJ\ Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge. The \MJ\ \DEM\ comprises 44.1~kg of Ge detectors…

physics.ins-det2017

Spectral analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator experiment

L. Hehn, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +68

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experi…

physics.ins-det2014

Production, characterization and operation of Ge enriched BEGe detectors in GERDA

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +109

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of Ge. Germanium detectors mad…

physics.ins-det2012

Characteristics of Signals Originating Near the Lithium-Diffused N+ Contact of High Purity Germanium P-Type Point Contact Detectors

The MAJORANA Collaboration, E. Aguayo, M. Amman +83

A study of signals originating near the lithium-diffused n+ contact of p-type point contact (PPC) high purity germanium detectors (HPGe) is presented. The transition region between…

physics.ins-det2017

Initial Results from the Majorana Demonstrator

T. S. Caldwell, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +69

The MAJORANA Collaboration has assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge with the goal of establishing the required b…

nucl-ex2016

Limit on the Radiative Neutrinoless Double Electron Capture of Ar from GERDA Phase I

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +115

Neutrinoless double electron capture is a process that, if detected, would give evidence of lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of neutrinos. A search for neutrinoless…

nucl-ex2023

Search for tri-nucleon decays of Ge in GERDA

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +111

We search for tri-nucleon decays of Ge in the dataset from the GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment. Decays that populate excited levels of the daughter nucleus above…

physics.ins-det2017

The Status and Initial Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Experiment

V. E. Guiseppe, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches play a major role in determining the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino m…

nucl-ex2026

Determination of the Muon Lifetime in Se with the MONUMENT experiment

G. R. Araujo, D. Bajpai, L. Baudis +26

Ordinary muon capture provides a benchmark for the nuclear physics models of neutrinoless double beta decay under comparable momentum transfer conditions. The total capture strengt…

physics.ins-det2017

Data quality assurance for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

J. Myslik, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +68

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale expe…

nucl-ex2023

Final Results of GERDA on the Two-Neutrino Double- Decay Half-Life of Ge

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +116

We present the measurement of the two-neutrino double- decay rate of Ge performed with the GERDA Phase II experiment. With a subset of the entire GERDA exposure, 11.8 kg…

physics.ins-det2016

High voltage testing for the MAJORANA Demonstrator

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +70

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 44-kg modular high-purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-…

nucl-ex2010

Astroparticle Physics with a Customized Low-Background Broad Energy Germanium Detector

MAJORANA Collaboration, C. E. Aalseth, M. Amman +100

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 Undergrou…

physics.ins-det2017

The Majorana Demonstrator calibration system

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +64

The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with…

physics.ins-det2015

Analysis techniques for background rejection at the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +65

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular HPGe detector array to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76G…

physics.ins-det2013

Registration of reactor neutrinos with the highly segmented plastic scintillator detector DANSSino

V. Belov, V. Brudanin, M. Danilov +8

DANSSino is a simplified pilot version of a solid-state detector of reactor antineutrino (it is being created within the DANSS project and will be installed close to an industrial…

nucl-ex2011

The Majorana Demonstrator

E. Aguayo, J. E. Fast, E. W. Hoppe +90

A brief review of the history and neutrino physics of double beta decay is given. A description of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR research and development program including background r…

physics.ins-det2022

Optimized scintillation strip design for the DANSS upgrade

DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +32

DANSS is a one cubic meter plastic scintillator detector with a primary goal of the sterile neutrino searches at a commercial nuclear reactor. Due to its highly advantageous locati…

nucl-ex2013

Depth Requirements for a Tonne-scale 76Ge Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay Experiment

The MAJORANA Collaboration, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone +90

Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments can potentially determine the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino, and aid in understanding the neutrino absolute mass scale and hie…

physics.ins-det2023

Application of the Duperier method to the analysis of the cosmic muon flux dependence on the meteorological parameters, based on the DANSS detector data

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, M. Danilov +23

The detector DANSS is located under n industrial nuclear reactor at Kalininskaya Nuclear Power Plant. This location provides ~ 50 m.w.e. reduction of the cosmic muon flux in the ve…

physics.ins-det2013

Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment

MAJORANA Collaboration, R. D. Martin, N. Abgrall +82

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR neutrinoless double beta-decay experiment is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. An overview a…

physics.ins-det2026

Energy Calibration and Performance of HPGe Detectors in the LEGEND-200 Experiment

The LEGEND Collaboration, H. Acharya, M. Agostini +259

This paper describes the energy scale procedures and germanium detectors performance in the LEGEND-200 experiment, a critical component for the first unblinding in the search for n…

physics.ins-det2015

Low Background Signal Readout Electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

I. Guinn, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +65

The MAJORANA Collaboration will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) in 76Ge using isotopically enriched p-type point contact (PPC) high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. A…

physics.ins-det2016

DANSS: Detector of the reactor AntiNeutrino based on Solid Scintillator

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, V. Brudanin +28

The DANSS project is aimed at creating a relatively compact neutrino spectrometer which does not contain any flammable or other dangerous liquids and may therefore be located very…

physics.ins-det2014

The background in the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment GERDA

The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +111

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. The signature of th…

physics.ins-det2022

Observation of the temperature and barometric effects on the cosmic muon flux by the DANSS detector

DANSS Collaboration, I. Alekseev, V. Belov +26

The DANSS detector is located directly below a commercial reactor core at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant. Such a position provides an overburden about 50 m.w.e. in vertical direct…

physics.ins-det2017

Upgrade for Phase II of the GERDA Experiment

M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata +111

The GERDA collaboration is performing a sensitive search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. The upgrade of the…

hep-ex2020

The first search for bosonic super-WIMPs with masses up to 1 MeV/c with GERDA

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +106

We present the first search for bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter candidates performed with the GERDA experiment. GERDA is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment wh…

physics.ins-det2012

The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge

GERDA Collaboration, K. -H. Ackermann, M. Agostini +136

The GERDA collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{76}Ge with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the…

nucl-ex2023

An improved limit on the neutrinoless double-electron capture of Ar with GERDA

GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +110

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment operated enriched high-purity germanium detectors in a liquid argon cryostat, which contains 0.33% of Ar, a candidate isotope…

nucl-ex2020

Final Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +112

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment searched for the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless double- () decay of Ge, whose discovery would have far-rea…

physics.ins-det2017

Low Background Materials and Fabrication Techniques for Cables and Connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

M. Busch, N. Abgrall, S. I. Alvis +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of germanium detectors deployed with the…

physics.ins-det2016

Background model for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +64

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing a system containing 44 kg of high-purity Ge (HPGe) detectors to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a future tonne-scale experim…

nucl-ex2016

Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle Violating Atomic Transitions and Electron Decay with a P-type Point Contact Germanium Detector

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +66

A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating K-alpha electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium dete…

physics.ins-det2015

The Majorana Parts Tracking Database

The Majorana Collaboration, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +89

The Majorana Demonstrator is an ultra-low background physics experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge. The Majorana Parts Tracking Database is used…

physics.ins-det2015

Improvement of the Energy Resolution via an Optimized Digital Signal Processing in GERDA Phase I

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +111

An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the GERDA experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The GERDA Phase I energy calibration data…

physics.ins-det2016

Delayed charge recovery discrimination of passivated surface alpha events in P-type point-contact detectors

J. Gruszko, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +64

The Majorana Demonstrator searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge using arrays of high-purity germanium detectors. If observed, this process would demonstrate that…

hep-ex2015

decay of Ge into excited states with GERDA Phase I

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +113

Two neutrino double beta decay of Ge to excited states of Se has been studied using data from Phase I of the GERDA experiment. An array composed of up to 14 germanium…

physics.ins-det2015

MAJORANA Collaboration's Experience with Germanium Detectors

S. Mertens, N. Abgrall, F. T. Avignone +62

The goal of the \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} project is to search for 0 decay in . Of all candidate isotopes for 0,

physics.ins-det2016

Limits on uranium and thorium bulk content in GERDA Phase I detectors

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +113

Internal contaminations of U, U and Th in the bulk of high purity germanium detectors are potential backgrounds for experiments searching for neutrinoless d…

nucl-ex2012

Measurement of the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Ge-76 with the Gerda experiment

GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +110

The primary goal of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN is the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76…

nucl-ex2012

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: Progress towards showing the feasibility of a tonne-scale 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment

P. Finnerty, E. Aguayo, M. Amman +80

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the 76Ge isotope with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observation of…

nucl-ex2016

Muon Flux Measurements at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the Majorana Demonstrator Veto System

N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone +71

We report the first measurement of the total MUON flux underground at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the 4850 ft level. Measurements were done wit…

physics.ins-det2021

Calibration of the GERDA experiment

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +109

The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge with an array of about 40 high-purity isotopically-enriched germanium de…

physics.ins-det2013

Pulse shape discrimination for GERDA Phase I data

M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +111

The GERDA experiment located at the LNGS searches for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay of ^{76}Ge using germanium diodes as source and detector. In Phase I of the experimen…

hep-ex2019

Probing Majorana neutrinos with double- decay

GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +111

A discovery that neutrinos are not the usual Dirac but Majorana fermions, i.e. identical to their antiparticles, would be a manifestation of new physics with profound implications…

nucl-ex2019

Ordinary muon capture studies for the matrix elements in decay

D. Zinatulina, V. Brudanin, V. Egorov +4

Precise measurement of -rays following ordinary (non-radiative) capture of negative muons by natural Se, Kr, Cd and Sm, as well as isotopically enriched Ti, Se, $…

physics.ins-det2015

Status of the MAJORANA Demonstrator

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +64

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 de…

nucl-ex2019

A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge with 26 kg-yr of Exposure from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +61

The MAJORANA Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR consists of 44…

physics.ins-det2016

The Majorana Demonstrator Radioassay Program

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +82

The MAJORANA collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTATOR at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, SD. The apparatus will use Ge…

physics.ins-det2017

The Processing of Enriched Germanium for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR and R&D for a Possible Future Ton-Scale Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Experiment

N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +67

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of point-contact Ge detectors fabricated from Ge isotopically enriched to 88% in Ge-76 to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The proce…

physics.ins-det2013

The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment

Majorana Collaboration, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo +82

The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the isotope Ge-76 with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observati…

physics.ins-det2013

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of Germanium-76

MAJORANA Collaboration, S. R. Elliott, N. Abgrall +80

The {\sc Majorana} collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using Ge, which has been shown to have a number of advantages in terms of sensitivities and…

nucl-ex2025

Direct determination of the U to Pu inverse beta decay yield ratio in the power reactor neutrino experiments

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, A. Bystryakov +30

The yields of the inverse beta decay events produced by antineutrinos from a certain nuclear reactor fuel component are used by many experiments to check various model predictions.…

nucl-ex2024

Searches for new physics below twice the electron mass with GERDA

GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +108

A search for full energy depositions from bosonic keV-scale dark matter candidates of masses between 65 keV and 1021 keV has been performed with data collected during Phase II of t…

physics.ins-det2018

Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

J. Myslik, S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist +65

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experime…

physics.ins-det2015

Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44-kg (29 kg 76Ge and 15 kg natGe) to sea…

hep-ex2025

First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment

H. Acharya, N. Ackermann, M. Agostini +256

The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta () decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge in a low-background liquid a…

hep-ex2025

Long term remote reactor power and fuel composition monitoring using antineutrinos

I. Alekseev, V. Belov, A. Bystryakov +31

Electron antineutrinos are emitted in the decay chains of the fission products inside a reactor core and could be used for remote monitoring of nuclear reactors. The DANSS detector…

physics.ins-det2019

Multi-site event discrimination for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

S. I. Alvis, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +60

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge using arrays of point-contact germanium detectors operating at the Sanford Underground Research Fa…