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

216 citations · 972 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

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…

physics.ins-det2025

Dynamics of Magnetic Evaporative Beamline Cooling for Preparation of Cold Atomic Beams

A. Ashtari Esfahani, S. Bhagvati, S. Böser +55

The most sensitive direct neutrino mass searches today are based on measurement of the endpoint of the beta spectrum of tritium to infer limits on the mass of the unobserved neutri…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

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-det2025

Calorimetric Wire Detector for Measurement of Atomic Hydrogen Beams

M. Astaschov, S. Bhagvati, S. Böser +53

A calorimetric detector for minimally disruptive measurements of atomic hydrogen beams is described. The calorimeter measures heat released by the recombination of hydrogen atoms i…

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

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 15 cited

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Readout Electronics System

N. Abgrall, M. Amman, I. J. Arnquist +76

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR comprises two arrays of high-purity germanium detectors constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge and other physics beyond the Sta…

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 14 cited

ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

N. Abgrall, J. M. Allmond, I. J. Arnquist +64

Imperfections in analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) cannot be ignored when signal digitization requirements demand both wide dynamic range and high resolution, as is the case for t…

hep-ex2019

Recent Results of the Majorana Demonstrator Experiment

J. M. López-Castaño

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge with two modular arrays of natural and Ge-enriched germanium detectors. It is located…

nucl-ex2019★ 119 cited

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…