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physics.ins-det2017★ 4 cited

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-det2017★ 16 cited

Technical design and commissioning of the KATRIN large-volume air coil system

M. Erhard, J. Behrens, S. Bauer +15

The KATRIN experiment is a next-generation direct neutrino mass experiment with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% C.L.) to the effective mass of the electron neutrino. It measures the t…

physics.ins-det2017★ 12 cited

SENSE: A comparison of photon detection efficiency and optical crosstalk of various SiPM devices

A. Nagai, C. Alispach, T. Berghöfer +15

This paper describes a comparison of photon detection efficiency and optical crosstalk measurements performed by three partners: Geneva University, Catania Observatory and Nagoya U…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 72 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 18 cited

A method to define the energy threshold depending on noise level for rare event searches

M. Mancuso, A. Bento, N. Ferreiro Iachellini +5

Solid state detectors and cryogenic detectors are widely employed in rare event searches, such as direct Dark Matter detection or Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Scattering experiments.…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

Performance of irradiated thin n-in-p planar pixel sensors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade

Natascha Savic, Julien-Christopher Beyer, Bojan Hiti +6

The ATLAS collaboration will replace its tracking detector with new all silicon pixel and strip systems. This will allow to cope with the higher radiation and occupancy levels expe…

physics.ins-det2017★ 216 cited

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 neutr…

physics.ins-det2017★ 7 cited

PEN as self-vetoing structural Material

B. Majorovits, S. Eck, F. Fischer +7

Polyethylene Naphtalate (PEN) is a mechanically very favorable polymer. Earlier it was found that thin foils made from PEN can have very high radio-purity compared to other commerc…

physics.ins-det2017★ 4 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 1 cited

Construction and Response of a Highly Granular Scintillator-based Electromagnetic Calorimeter

CALICE collaboration, J. Repond, L. Xia +78

A highly granular electromagnetic calorimeter with scintillator strip readout is being developed for future lepton collider experiments. A prototype of 21.5 depth and $180 \t…

physics.ins-det2017★ 16 cited

New High-Precision Drift-Tube Detectors for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

H. Kroha, R. Fakhrutdinov, O. Kortner +3

Small-diameter muon drift tube (sMDT) detectors have been developed for upgrades of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. With a tube diameter of 15 mm, they provide an about an order of ma…

physics.ins-det2017★ 38 cited

Results from the first cryogenic NaI detector for the COSINUS project

COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, P. Carniti +16

Recently there is a flourishing and notable interest in the crystalline scintillator material sodium iodide (NaI) as target for direct dark matter searches. This is mainly driven b…

physics.ins-det2017★ 30 cited

Software compensation in Particle Flow reconstruction

Huong Lan Tran, Katja Krüger, Felix Sefkow +4

The particle flow approach to calorimetry benefits from highly granular calorimeters and sophisticated software algorithms in order to reconstruct and identify individual particles…

physics.ins-det2017★ 140 cited

The -cleus experiment: A gram-scale fiducial-volume cryogenic detector for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

R. Strauss, J. Rothe, G. Angloher +12

We discuss a small-scale experiment, called -cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime.…

physics.ins-det2017★ 81 cited

Gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters for rare-event searches

R. Strauss, J. Rothe, G. Angloher +12

The energy threshold of a cryogenic calorimeter can be lowered by reducing its size. This is of importance since the resulting increase in signal rate enables new approaches in rar…

physics.ins-det2017★ 133 cited

Development of Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search

E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +99

This paper reports on the development of a technology involving Mo-enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolomet…

physics.ins-det2017★ 17 cited

Radiation hard pixel sensors using high-resistive wafers in a 150 nm CMOS processing line

D. -L. Pohl, T. Hemperek, I. Caicedo +8

Pixel sensors using 8" CMOS processing technology have been designed and characterized offering the benefits of industrial sensor fabrication, including large wafers, high throughp…

physics.ins-det2017★ 25 cited

Tracking within Hadronic Showers in the CALICE SDHCAL prototype using a Hough Transform Technique

The CALICE Collaboration

The high granularity of the CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) provides the capability to reveal the track segments present in hadronic showers. These segments are t…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Optimization of thin n-in-p planar pixel modules for the ATLAS upgrade at HL-LHC

Anna Macchiolo, Julien Beyer, Alessandro La Rosa +2

The ATLAS experiment will undergo around the year 2025 a replacement of the tracker system in view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) with a new 5-layer pixel system.…