activity
20212025
most citedFinal Result of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay in Ge

91 citations · 247 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

19 papers

cs.LG2025

A Multi-Component Reward Function with Policy Gradient for Automated Feature Selection with Dynamic Regularization and Bias Mitigation

Sudip Khadka, L. S. Paudel

Static feature exclusion strategies often fail to prevent bias when hidden dependencies influence the model predictions. To address this issue, we explore a reinforcement learning…

hep-ex2025★ 19 cited

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 argo…

nucl-ex2024★ 1 cited

Rare multi-nucleon decays with the full data sets of the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +39

The Majorana Demonstrator was an ultra-low-background experiment designed for neutrinoless double-beta decay () investigation in Ge. Located at the Sanford Underground…

nucl-ex2024★ 3 cited

Final Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Double-Beta Decay of Ge to Excited States of Se

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +45

Ge can decay into three possible excited states of Se, with the emission of two or, if the neutrino is Majorana, zero neutrinos. None of these six transitions ha…

nucl-ex2024

An assay-based background projection for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR using Monte Carlo Uncertainty Propagation

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +53

The background index is an important quantity which is used in projecting and calculating the half-life sensitivity of neutrinoless double-beta decay () experiments. A novel…

cs.LG2023

Majorana Demonstrator Data Release for AI/ML Applications

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +57

The enclosed data release consists of a subset of the calibration data from the Majorana Demonstrator experiment. Each Majorana event is accompanied by raw Germanium detector wavef…

nucl-ex2023★ 21 cited

Constraints on the decay of Ta

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +56

Ta is a rare nuclear isomer whose decay has never been observed. Its remarkably long lifetime surpasses the half-lives of all other known and electron capture decays d…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Energy Calibration of Germanium Detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +53

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR was a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () in the Ge isotope. It was staged at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Researc…

nucl-ex2022

Modeling Backgrounds for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. R. Haufe, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +55

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double-beta decay () experiment containing 30 kg of p-type point contact germanium detectors enriched to 88% in 76Ge and $\s…

physics.ins-det2022★ 12 cited

Charge Trapping and Energy Performance of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +55

P-type point contact (PPC) high-purity germanium detectors are an important technology in astroparticle and nuclear physics due to their superb energy resolution, low noise, and pu…

physics.data-an2022★ 4 cited

Interpretable Boosted Decision Tree Analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +52

The Majorana Demonstrator is a leading experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay with high purity germanium detectors (HPGe). Machine learning provides a new way to m…

nucl-ex2022★ 91 cited

Final Result of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay in Ge

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +57

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR searched for neutrinoless double- decay () of Ge using modular arrays of high-purity Ge detectors operated in vacuum cryostats in a low-ba…

hep-ex2022★ 10 cited

Exotic dark matter search with the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +56

With excellent energy resolution and ultra-low level radiogenic backgrounds, the high-purity germanium detectors in the Majorana Demonstrator enable searches for several classes of…

nucl-ex2022★ 14 cited

Search for solar axions via axion-photon coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +55

Axions were originally proposed to explain the strong-CP problem in QCD. Through the axion-photon coupling, the Sun could be a major source of axions, which could be measured in so…

nucl-ex2022★ 3 cited

Experimental study of 13C(α,n)16O reactions in the Majorana Demonstrator calibration data

MAJORANA Collaboration, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +55

Neutron captures and delayed decays of reaction products are common sources of backgrounds in ultra-rare event searches. In this work, we studied C(O reactions in…

nucl-ex2022★ 6 cited

Search for charge nonconservation and Pauli exclusion principle violation with the Majorana Demonstrator

MAJORANA Collaboration, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +55

Charge conservation and the Pauli exclusion principle result from fundamental symmetries in the standard model of particle physics, and are typically taken as axiomatic. High-preci…

nucl-ex2022

Search for Spontaneous Radiation from Wavefunction Collapse in the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +51

The Majorana Demonstrator neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment comprises a 44 kg (30 kg enriched in ) array of -type, point-contact germanium detectors. W…

nucl-ex2021★ 5 cited

Signatures of muonic activation in the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +55

Experiments searching for very rare processes such as neutrinoless double-beta decay require a detailed understanding of all sources of background. Signals from radioactive impurit…

physics.ins-det2021★ 52 cited

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 o…