Searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in South Dakota: The Majorana Demonstrator

by Prof. Ryan Martin (University of South Dakota)

Tuesday 11 Mar 2014, 12:30 → 13:30 US/Pacific

Sycamore Conference Room, room 195 (SLAC)

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The experiment will deploy an array of ~30kg  of point contact germanium detectors, enriched in 76Ge to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. One of the main goals of the experiments is to demonstrate  a design with unprecedentedly low levels of backgrounds that is suitable to build a tonne scale experiment. This talk will give an overview and status of the experiment, as well as future prospects.

pictures Majorana demonstrator string small photo

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