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physics.ins-det2015★ 96 cited

Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +98

We present measurements of the electron-recoil (ER) response of the LUX dark matter detector based upon 170,000 highly pure and spatially-uniform tritium decays. We reconstruct the…

physics.ins-det2015

Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment

Julieta Gruszko, Nicolas Abgrall, Isaac Arnquist +67

Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of t…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

FPGA-based Trigger System for the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo, X. Bai +100

LUX is a two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber designed to detect nuclear recoils resulting from interactions with dark matter particles. Signals from the detector a…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1 cited

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…

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-det2015★ 4 cited

Construction and Measurements of an Improved Vacuum-Swing-Adsorption Radon-Mitigation System

J. Street, R. Bunker, C. Dunagan +5

In order to reduce backgrounds from radon-daughter plate-out onto detector surfaces, an ultra-low-radon cleanroom is being commissioned at the South Dakota School of Mines and Tech…

physics.ins-det2015★ 54 cited

Liquid scintillator production for the NOvA experiment

S. Mufson, B. Baugh, C. Bower +8

The NOvA collaboration blended and delivered 8.8 kt (2.72M gal) of liquid scintillator as the active detector medium to its near and far detectors. The composition of this scintill…

physics.ins-det2015★ 4 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2015★ 15 cited

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★ 5 cited

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, has so…