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1. $$K^0_S$$ K S 0 meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 31, 40 and 80 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}\!/\!c$$ Ge V / c beam momentum measured by NA61 $$/$$ / SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: NA61/SHINE Collaboration, N. Abgrall, H. Adhikary, P. Adrich, K. K. Allison, N. Amin, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, I.-C. Arsene, M. Bajda, Y. Balkova, M. Baszczyk, D. Battaglia, A. Bazgir, S. Bhosale, M. Bielewicz, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, Y. Bondar, N. Bostan, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, M. Buryakov, A. F. Camino, M. Ćirković, M. Csanád, J. Cybowska, T. Czopowicz, C. Dalmazzone, N. Davis, A. Dmitriev, P. von Doetinchem, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, G. A. Feofilov, L. Fields, Z. Fodor, M. Friend, M. Gaździcki, O. Golosov, V. Golovatyuk, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, S. N. Igolkin, S. Ilieva, A. Ivashkin, A. Izvestnyy, K. Kadija, N. Kargin, N. Karpushkin, E. Kashirin, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, H. Kitagawa, R. Kolesnikov, D. Kolev, A. Korzenev, Y. Koshio, V. N. Kovalenko, S. Kowalski, B. Kozłowski, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuchowicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, A. László, M. Lewicki, G. Lykasov, V. V. Lyubushkin, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, Z. Majka, A. Makhnev, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, H.-J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V. Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. Merzlaya, Ł. Mik, A. Morawiec, S. Morozov, Y. Nagai, T. Nakadaira, M. Naskręt, S. Nishimori, V. Ozvenchuk, O. Panova, V. Paolone, O. Petukhov, I. Pidhurskyi, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, B. Pórfy, M. Posiadała-Zezula, D. S. Prokhorova, D. Pszczel, S. Puławski, J. Puzović, R. Renfordt, L. Ren, V. Z. Reyna Ortiz, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, M. Roth, Ł. Rozpłochowski, B. T. Rumberger, M. Rumyantsev, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, K. Sakashita, K. Schmidt, A. Yu. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, U. A. Shah, Y. Shiraishi, A. Shukla, M. Słodkowski, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, L. Swiderski, J. Szewiński, R. Szukiewicz, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A. Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, T. S. Tveter, M. Unger, M. Urbaniak, F. F. Valiev, D. Veberič, V. V. Vechernin, V. Volkov, A. Wickremasinghe, K. Wójcik, O. Wyszyński, A. Zaitsev, E. D. Zimmerman, A. Zviagina, and R. Zwaska
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract The yields of $$K^0_S$$ K S 0 mesons have been measured in inelastic p+p interactions at incident projectile momenta of 31, 40 and 80 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}\!/\!c$$ Ge V / c ( $$\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7, 8.8$$ s NN = 7.7 , 8.8 and 12.3 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}$$ Ge V , respectively). The data were recorded by the NA61 $$/$$ / SHINE spectrometer at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron and the $$K^0_S$$ K S 0 mesons identified via their decays into $$\pi ^{+} \pi ^{-}$$ π + π - pairs. Double-differential distributions are presented as function of transverse momentum and rapidity. The mean multiplicities of $$K^0_S$$ K S 0 mesons were determined to be $$(5.95 \pm 0.19 (stat) \pm 0.30 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$$ ( 5.95 ± 0.19 ( s t a t ) ± 0.30 ( s y s ) ) × 10 - 2 at 31 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}\!/\!c$$ Ge V / c , $$(7.61 \pm 0.13 (stat) \pm 0.43 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$$ ( 7.61 ± 0.13 ( s t a t ) ± 0.43 ( s y s ) ) × 10 - 2 at 40 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}\!/\!c$$ Ge V / c and $$(11.58 \pm 0.12 (stat) \pm 0.55 (sys)) \times 10^{-2}$$ ( 11.58 ± 0.12 ( s t a t ) ± 0.55 ( s y s ) ) × 10 - 2 at 80 $$\text {Ge}\hspace{-1.00006pt}\text {V}\!/\!c$$ Ge V / c . The results on $$K^{0}_{S}$$ K S 0 production are compared with the production of charged kaons in corresponding reactions and with model calculations (Epos1.99, SMASH 2.0 and PHSD) as well as with published data from other experiments.
Published: 2024
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2. Measurements of $$\pi ^\pm $$ π± , $$K^\pm $$ K± and proton double differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, A. Ereditato, G. A. Feofilov, L. Fields, Z. Fodor, A. Garibov, M. Gaździcki, O. Golosov, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, T. Hasegawa, A. E. Hervé, S. N. Igolkin, S. Ilieva, A. Ivashkin, S. R. Johnson, K. Kadija, E. Kaptur, N. Kargin, E. Kashirin, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, V. Klochkov, T. Kobayashi, V. I. Kolesnikov, D. Kolev, A. Korzenev, V. N. Kovalenko, K. Kowalik, S. Kowalski, M. Koziel, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, D. Larsen, A. László, T. V. Lazareva, M. Lewicki, K. Łojek, B. Łysakowski, V. V. Lyubushkin, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, Z. Majka, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, D. Manić, A. Marchionni, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, K. Marton, H. J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V. Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. O. Merzlaya, B. Messerly, Ł. Mik, G. B. Mills, S. Morozov, S. Mrówczyński, Y. Nagai, T. Nakadaira, M. Naskręt, K. Nishikawa, V. Ozvenchuk, V. Paolone, M. Pavin, O. Petukhov, C. Pistillo, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, M. Posiadała-Zezula, D. S. Prokhorova, S. Puławski, J. Puzović, W. Rauch, M. Ravonel, R. Renfordt, E. Richter-Wąs, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, M. Roth, B. T. Rumberger, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, A. Sadovsky, K. Sakashita, K. Schmidt, T. Sekiguchi, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. Yu. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, M. Shibata, M. Słodkowski, A. Snoch, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, M. Tada, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A. Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, R. Ulrich, M. Unger, F. F. Valiev, D. Veberič, V. V. Vechernin, M. Walewski, A. Wickremasinghe, Z. Włodarczyk, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, O. Wyszyński, L. Zambelli, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Zwaska, L. Berns, G. A. Fiorentini, M. Friend, M. Hartz, T. Vladisavljevic, and M. Yu
Subjects: Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract: Abstract Measurements of the $$\pi ^\pm $$ π± , $$K^\pm $$ K± , and proton double differential yields emitted from the surface of the 90-$$\hbox {cm}$$ cm -long carbon target (T2K replica) were performed for the incoming $$31\,$$ 31 $$\hbox {GeV}\!/\!c$$ GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS using data collected during 2010 run. The double differential $$\pi ^\pm $$ π± yields were measured with increased precision compared to the previously published NA61/SHINE results, while the $$K^\pm $$ K± and proton yields were obtained for the first time. A strategy for dealing with the dependence of the results on the incoming proton beam profile is proposed. The purpose of these measurements is to reduce significantly the (anti)neutrino flux uncertainty in the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment by constraining the production of (anti)neutrino ancestors coming from the T2K target.
Published: 2019
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3. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment

Author: N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash, F. E. Bertrand, M. Boswell, V. Brudanin, M. Busch, A. S. Caldwell, Y.-D. Chan, C. D. Christofferson, D. C. Combs, J. A. Detwiler, P. J. Doe, Yu. Efremenko, V. Egorov, H. Ejiri, S. R. Elliott, J. Esterline, J. E. Fast, P. Finnerty, F. M. Fraenkle, A. Galindo-Uribarri, G. K. Giovanetti, J. Goett, M. P. Green, J. Gruszko, V. E. Guiseppe, K. Gusev, A. L. Hallin, R. Hazama, A. Hegai, R. Henning, E. W. Hoppe, S. Howard, M. A. Howe, K. J. Keeter, M. F. Kidd, A. Knecht, O. Kochetov, S. I. Konovalov, R. T. Kouzes, B. D. LaFerriere, J. Leon, L. E. Leviner, J. C. Loach, P. N. Luke, S. MacMullin, R. D. Martin, S. Mertens, L. Mizouni, M. Nomachi, J. L. Orrell, C. O'Shaughnessy, N. R. Overman, David Phillips, A. W. P. Poon, K. Pushkin, D. C. Radford, K. Rielage, R. G. H. Robertson, M. C. Ronquest, A. G. Schubert, B. Shanks, T. Shima, M. Shirchenko, K. J. Snavely, N. Snyder, D. Steele, J. Strain, A. M. Suriano, J. Thompson, V. Timkin, W. Tornow, R. L. Varner, S. Vasilyev, K. Vetter, K. Vorren, B. R. White, J. F. Wilkerson, T. Williams, W. Xu, E. Yakushev, A. R. Young, C.-H. Yu, and V. Yumatov
Subjects: Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: The Majorana Demonstrator will search for the neutrinoless double-beta (ββ0ν) decay of the isotope Ge with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. The observation of this rare decay would indicate that the neutrino is its own antiparticle, demonstrate that lepton number is not conserved, and provide information on the absolute mass scale of the neutrino. The Demonstrator is being assembled at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The array will be situated in a low-background environment and surrounded by passive and active shielding. Here we describe the science goals of the Demonstrator and the details of its design.
Published: 2014
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4. ADC Nonlinearity Correction for the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: D. C. Radford, G. K. Giovanetti, S. J. Meijer, J. M. López-Castaño, M. Clark, J. F. Wilkerson, C. D. Christofferson, A. Hostiuc, M. F. Kidd, C. Wiseman, B. R. White, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, R. J. Hegedus, A. Drobizhev, E. L. Martin, A. S. Barabash, J. Rager, T. Gilliss, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, B. Bos, R. D. Martin, M. P. Green, C. M. Campbell, M. Busch, G. Othman, Susanne Mertens, F. E. Bertrand, D. W. Edwins, Richard T. Kouzes, R. L. Varner, D. Tedeschi, D. Hervas Aguilar, W. Xu, Chang-Hong Yu, C. Cuesta, Ralph Massarczyk, Walter C. Pettus, Y-D. Chan, Keith Rielage, A. L. Reine, J. Gruszko, Pinghan Chu, T. K. Oli, S. Vasilyev, H. L. Crawford, N. Abgrall, I. Kim, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, Yu. Efremenko, F. T. Avignone, I. S. Guinn, M. Buuck, Reyco Henning, A. W. P. Poon, A. M. Lopez, M. J. Stortini, J. M. Allmond, C. J. Barton, J. Myslik, J. A. Detwiler, C. R. Haufe, B. X. Zhu, Eric W. Hoppe, and T. S. Caldwell
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, Gamma-ray detectors, Biomedical Engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, nucl-ex, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Signal, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Wide dynamic range, Electronic engineering, Waveform, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Signal processing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dynamic range, Detector, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Other Physical Sciences, MAJORANA, neutrinoless double-beta decay, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: 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 the Majorana Demonstrator 76Ge neutrinoless double-beta decay search. Enabling the experiment’s high-resolution spectral analysis and efficient pulse shape discrimination required careful measurement and correction of ADC nonlinearities. A simple measurement protocol was developed that did not require sophisticated equipment or lengthy data-taking campaigns. A slope-dependent hysteresis was observed and characterized. A correction applied to digitized waveforms prior to signal processing reduced the differential and integral nonlinearities by an order of magnitude, eliminating these as dominant contributions to the systematic energy uncertainty at the double-beta decay $Q$ value.
Published: 2021

5. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless ββ Decay (LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report)

Author: S. R. Elliott, Inwook Kim, N. Abgrall, Pinghan Chu, Samuel Meijer, Keith Rielage, Danielle Schaper, and Ralph Massarczyk
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, chemistry, media_common.quotation_subject, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, Legend, media_common
Published: 2021

6. Characterization of high purity germanium point contact detectors with low net impurity concentration

Author: C. Schmitt, D. C. Radford, Yuen-Dat Chan, R. D. Martin, Susanne Mertens, A. Hegai, N. Abgrall, and Alan Poon
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Rare event search, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, Atomic, Nuclear physics, Particle and Plasma Physics, Affordable and Clean Energy, Impurity, Double beta decay, Nuclear, Neutrinoless double beta decay, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Detector, Molecular, Germanium detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Semiconductor detector, Other Physical Sciences, chemistry, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Event (particle physics), Astronomical and Space Sciences, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: Author(s): Mertens, S; Hegai, A; Radford, DC; Abgrall, N; Chan, YD; Martin, RD; Poon, AWP; Schmitt, C | Abstract: High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle physics. In rare event searches, such as neutrinoless double beta decay, the point-contact geometry is of particular importance since it allows for pulse-shape discrimination, and therefore for a significant background reduction. In this paper we investigate the pulse-shape discrimination performance of ultra-high purity germanium point contact detectors. It is demonstrated that a minimal net impurity concentration is required to meet the pulse-shape performance requirements.
Published: 2019

7. Spectral analysis for the Majorana Demonstrator experiment

Author: B. X. Zhu, V. Yumatov, J. Gruszko, Yu. Efremenko, M. Buuck, G. K. Giovanetti, Keith Rielage, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, T. Gilliss, R. D. Martin, R. G. H. Robertson, A. W. Bradley, T. Bode, C-H. Yu, Eric W. Hoppe, J. A. Detwiler, M. Shirchenko, M. P. Green, C. J. Barton, C. Dunagan, T. S. Caldwell, Ralph Massarczyk, Walter C. Pettus, C. R. Haufe, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, S. I. Alvis, A. L. Reine, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, I. Zhitnikov, R. L. Varner, F. E. Bertrand, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, Anne-Marie Suriano, I. S. Guinn, C. Cuesta, W. Xu, J. E. Trimble, Pinghan Chu, G. Othman, A. W. P. Poon, Y-D. Chan, K. J. Keeter, D. Tedeschi, L. Hehn, S. I. Konovalov, J. Myslik, M. A. Howe, Richard T. Kouzes, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, J. F. Wilkerson, S. J. Meijer, B. R. White, K. Vorren, V.B. Brudanin, F. T. Avignone, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, C. Wiseman, A. S. Barabash, D. C. Radford, and M. Busch
Subjects: Physics, History, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), nucl-ex, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Computer Science Applications, Education, Combinatorics, Other Physical Sciences, Monte carlo data, MAJORANA, Particle and Plasma Physics, Background suppression, Statistical analysis, Spectral analysis, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det
Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}\textrm{Ge}$-enriched germanium detectors totaling 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched detectors), located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Data taken with this setup since summer 2015 at different construction stages of the experiment show a clear reduction of the observed background index around the ROI for $0\nu\beta\beta$-decay search due to improvements in shielding. We discuss the statistical approaches to search for a $0\nu\beta\beta$-signal and derive the physics sensitivity for an expected exposure of $10\,\textrm{kg}{\cdot}\textrm{y}$ from enriched detectors using a profile likelihood based hypothesis test in combination with toy Monte Carlo data., Comment: 5 page, 2 figures, to appear in Proceedings of TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, 24 - 28 July 2017, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Published: 2020

8. Data quality assurance for the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, Keith Rielage, V. Yumatov, Yu. Efremenko, M. Shirchenko, C. Cuesta, K. Vorren, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, F. E. Bertrand, Ralph Massarczyk, G. K. Giovanetti, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash, Reyco Henning, A. W. P. Poon, A. M. Lopez, J. Gruszko, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, C. R. Haufe, J. E. Trimble, S. I. Alvis, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, Pinghan Chu, J. Myslik, R. L. Varner, M. P. Green, I. Zhitnikov, T. Gilliss, V.B. Brudanin, K. J. Keeter, D. Tedeschi, T. Bode, C-H. Yu, Richard T. Kouzes, L. Hehn, R. D. Martin, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, D. C. Radford, R. G. H. Robertson, Eric W. Hoppe, Walter C. Pettus, A. W. Bradley, S. J. Meijer, C. Wiseman, A. L. Reine, B. X. Zhu, S. I. Konovalov, M. Busch, T. S. Caldwell, Anne-Marie Suriano, M. Buuck, J. A. Detwiler, G. Othman, C. Dunagan, I. S. Guinn, C. J. Barton, W. Xu, Y-D. Chan, J. F. Wilkerson, B. R. White, M. A. Howe, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, and Steven Elliott
Subjects: Physics, Discrete mathematics, History, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Molecular, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic, Computer Science Applications, Education, Other Physical Sciences, MAJORANA, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear, physics.ins-det
Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a large-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and $^{76}$Ge-enriched germanium detectors totalling 44.1 kg, located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Any neutrinoless double-beta decay search requires a thorough understanding of the background and the signal energy spectra. The various techniques employed to ensure the integrity of the measured spectra are discussed. Data collection is monitored with a thorough set of checks, and subsequent careful analysis is performed to qualify the data for higher level physics analysis. Instrumental background events are tagged for removal, and problematic channels are removed from consideration as necessary., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of TAUP 2017 - XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (Sudbury ON, Canada, July 24-28, 2017)
Published: 2020
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9. Initial results from the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: V. B. Brudanin, Walter C. Pettus, F. E. Bertrand, C. Dunagan, Eric W. Hoppe, Keith Rielage, J. Myslik, D. J. Tedeschi, A. S. Barabash, T. S. Caldwell, M. P. Green, Kai Vetter, C. Wiseman, M. Shirchenko, H. Ejiri, C. R. Haufe, K. J. Keeter, J. E. Trimble, S. I. Alvis, C. D. Christofferson, Pinghan Chu, Ralph Massarczyk, S. I. Konovalov, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, B. Shanks, M. F. Kidd, T. Bode, V. E. Guiseppe, M. Buuck, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, B. Bos, B. X. Zhu, G. Othman, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, Anne-Marie Suriano, T. Gilliss, J. A. Detwiler, J. F. Wilkerson, Yu. Efremenko, C. O'Shaughnessy, R. D. Martin, A. W. P. Poon, Vladimir Yumatov, Richard T. Kouzes, B. R. White, S. Vasilyev, R. G. H. Robertson, S. R. Elliott, L. Hehn, C. Cuesta, J. Rager, G. K. Giovanetti, N. Abgrall, D. C. Radford, A. L. Reine, K. Vorren, S. J. Meijer, J. Gruszko, A. W. Bradley, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, W. Xu, M. A. Howe, Y-D. Chan, C.-H. Yu, I. S. Guinn, and C. J. Barton
Subjects: History, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, nucl-ex, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Education, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Point contact, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Detector array, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Detector, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications, Semiconductor detector, Other Physical Sciences, MAJORANA, Single lead
Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The {\sc Majorana} Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge. The {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} is composed of 44.8~kg (29.7 kg enriched in $^{76}$Ge) of Ge detectors in total, split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The initial goals of the {\sc Demonstrator} are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based, next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that began in 2015, the first detector module started physics data production in early 2016. We will discuss initial results of the Module 1 commissioning and first physics run, as well as the status and potential physics reach of the full {\sc Majorana Demonstrator} experiment. The collaboration plans to complete the assembly of the second detector module by mid-2016 to begin full data production with the entire array., Neutrino 2016 proceeding
Published: 2020

10. Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Author: D. Byram, Jonathan D. Leon, M. Shirchenko, T. Gilliss, John L. Orrell, Vladimir Yumatov, R. D. Martin, Alan Poon, M. P. Green, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, W. Xu, Stanley M. Howard, H. Ejiri, J. F. Wilkerson, C.-H. Yu, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, B. R. White, R. G. H. Robertson, Yu. Efremenko, M. Buuck, Keith Rielage, E. Romero-Romero, S. I. Konovalov, J. E. Trimble, J. Rager, A. Galindo-Uribarri, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, C. Cuesta, F. T. Avignone, Kai Vetter, S. Vasilyev, Yuen-Dat Chan, Brian D. LaFerriere, C. D. Christofferson, R. L. Varner, J. MacMullin, Reyco Henning, N. Abgrall, D. J. Tedeschi, I. S. Guinn, B. Shanks, B. R. Jasinski, Eric W. Hoppe, J. Gruszko, A. S. Caldwell, V. E. Guiseppe, K. Vorren, C. Wiseman, M. A. Howe, F. E. Bertrand, J. Goett, A. W. Bradley, S. R. Elliott, D. C. Radford, K. Keeter, E. Yakushev, A. S. Barabash, V.B. Brudanin, Richard T. Kouzes, C. X. Balderrot-Barrera, G. K. Giovanetti, S. J. Meijer, Susanne Mertens, M. F. Kidd, I. J. Arnquist, and N. Snyder
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Modular design, 01 natural sciences, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, 0103 physical sciences, Detector array, 010306 general physics, business
Abstract: The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultralow background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ-decay) in 76Ge. The goal of the experiment is to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge 0νββ-decay. In this paper, the status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, including its design and measurements of properties of the HPGe crystals is presented.
Published: 2017

11. Measurements of $$\pi ^\pm $$ π ± , $$K^\pm $$ K ± and proton double differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: N. Abgrall, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov, T. Antićić, B. Baatar, M. Baszczyk, S. Bhosale, A. Blondel, M. Bogomilov, A. Brandin, A. Bravar, W. Bryliński, J. Brzychczyk, S. A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, A. Bzdak, H. Cherif, M. Ćirković, T. Czopowicz, A. Damyanova, N. Davis, M. Deveaux, W. Dominik, P. Dorosz, J. Dumarchez, R. Engel, A. Ereditato, G. A. Feofilov, L. Fields, Z. Fodor, A. Garibov, M. Gaździcki, O. Golosov, M. Golubeva, K. Grebieszkow, F. Guber, A. Haesler, T. Hasegawa, A. E. Hervé, S. N. Igolkin, S. Ilieva, A. Ivashkin, S. R. Johnson, K. Kadija, E. Kaptur, N. Kargin, E. Kashirin, M. Kiełbowicz, V. A. Kireyeu, V. Klochkov, T. Kobayashi, V. I. Kolesnikov, D. Kolev, A. Korzenev, V. N. Kovalenko, K. Kowalik, S. Kowalski, M. Koziel, A. Krasnoperov, W. Kucewicz, M. Kuich, A. Kurepin, D. Larsen, A. László, T. V. Lazareva, M. Lewicki, K. Łojek, B. Łysakowski, V. V. Lyubushkin, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, Z. Majka, B. Maksiak, A. I. Malakhov, D. Manić, A. Marchionni, A. Marcinek, A. D. Marino, K. Marton, H. J. Mathes, T. Matulewicz, V. Matveev, G. L. Melkumov, A. O. Merzlaya, B. Messerly, Ł. Mik, G. B. Mills, S. Morozov, S. Mrówczyński, Y. Nagai, T. Nakadaira, M. Naskręt, K. Nishikawa, V. Ozvenchuk, V. Paolone, M. Pavin, O. Petukhov, C. Pistillo, R. Płaneta, P. Podlaski, B. A. Popov, M. Posiadała-Zezula, D. S. Prokhorova, S. Puławski, J. Puzović, W. Rauch, M. Ravonel, R. Renfordt, E. Richter-Wąs, D. Röhrich, E. Rondio, M. Roth, B. T. Rumberger, A. Rustamov, M. Rybczynski, A. Rybicki, A. Sadovsky, K. Sakashita, K. Schmidt, T. Sekiguchi, I. Selyuzhenkov, A. Yu. Seryakov, P. Seyboth, M. Shibata, M. Słodkowski, A. Snoch, P. Staszel, G. Stefanek, J. Stepaniak, M. Strikhanov, H. Ströbele, T. Šuša, M. Tada, A. Taranenko, A. Tefelska, D. Tefelski, V. Tereshchenko, A. Toia, R. Tsenov, L. Turko, R. Ulrich, M. Unger, F. F. Valiev, D. Veberič, V. V. Vechernin, M. Walewski, A. Wickremasinghe, Z. Włodarczyk, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, O. Wyszyński, L. Zambelli, E. D. Zimmerman, R. Zwaska, L. Berns, G. A. Fiorentini, M. Friend, M. Hartz, T. Vladisavljevic, and M. Yu
Subjects: Physics, Surface (mathematics), Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Spectrometer, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Production (computer science), Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Beam (structure)
Abstract: Measurements of the $\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$, and proton double differential yields emitted from the surface of the 90-cm-long carbon target (T2K replica) were performed for the incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS using data collected during 2010 run. The double differential $\pi^{\pm}$ yields were measured with increased precision compared to the previously published NA61/SHINE results, while the $K^{\pm}$ and proton yields were obtained for the first time. A strategy for dealing with the dependence of the results on the incoming proton beam profile is proposed. The purpose of these measurements is to reduce significantly the (anti)neutrino flux uncertainty in the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment by constraining the production of (anti)neutrino ancestors coming from the T2K target.
Published: 2019

12. High voltage testing for the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: Ralph Massarczyk, A. Galindo-Uribarri, Yuen-Dat Chan, S. Vasilyev, A. Li, A. Thompson, Alan Poon, N. Abgrall, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, Z. Fu, F. E. Bertrand, R. D. Martin, J. Gruszko, J. Goett, J. F. Wilkerson, R. G. H. Robertson, M. A. Howe, E. Romero-Romero, D. J. Tedeschi, B. R. White, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Stanley M. Howard, Jonathan D. Leon, I. S. Guinn, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, B. R. Jasinski, M. P. Green, M. Buuck, C. Wiseman, Reyco Henning, Eric W. Hoppe, C. Cuesta, J. Rager, D. Byram, Matthew Busch, Y.-U. Efremenko, P. J. Doe, C.-H. Yu, H. Ejiri, A. S. Barabash, Susanne Mertens, A. W. Bradley, V. Yumatov, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, S. R. Elliott, Brian D. LaFerriere, D. C. Radford, A. S. Caldwell, Keith Rielage, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, J. MacMullin, Kai Vetter, S. J. Meijer, C. D. Christofferson, K. Vorren, K. T. Ton, M. F. Kidd, E. Yakushev, C. Dunagan, S. I. Konovalov, W. Xu, G. K. Giovanetti, J. E. Trimble, Pinghan Chu, Richard T. Kouzes, I. J. Arnquist, and N. Snyder
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Vacuum, FOS: Physical sciences, Feedthrough, Context (language use), nucl-ex, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Physics, MAJORANA, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Electrical engineering, Molecular, High voltage, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High-voltage, Micro-discharge, Modular design, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Semiconductor detector, Other Physical Sciences, business, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Voltage
Abstract: The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA Demonstrator, an ultra-low background, 44-kg modular high-purity Ge (HPGe) detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The phenomenon of surface micro-discharge induced by high-voltage has been studied in the context of the MAJORANA Demonstrator. This effect can damage the front-end electronics or mimic detector signals. To ensure the correct performance, every high-voltage cable and feedthrough must be capable of supplying HPGe detector operating voltages as high as 5 kV without exhibiting discharge. R&D measurements were carried out to understand the testing system and determine the optimum design configuration of the high-voltage path, including different improvements of the cable layout and feedthrough flange model selection. Every cable and feedthrough to be used at the MAJORANA Demonstrator was characterized and the micro-discharge effects during the MAJORANA Demonstrator commissioning phase were studied. A stable configuration has been achieved, and the cables and connectors can supply HPGe detector operating voltages without exhibiting discharge., 9 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables, submitted to NIM A
Published: 2016

13. Next-generation experiments with the Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC)

Author: J. S. Randhawa, A. O. Macchiavelli, H. Alvarez-Pol, R. G. T. Zegers, Tan Ahn, Reynold J. Cooper, W. Mittig, C. Santamaria, L. Carpenter, N. Abgrall, Marco Cortesi, J. C. Zamora, S. Beceiro-Novo, N. Watwood, D. Bazin, B. Olaizola, and Y. Ayyad
Subjects: Nuclear reaction, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Time projection chamber, Luminosity (scattering theory), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Inelastic scattering, Tracking (particle physics), 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Recoil, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Beam (structure)
Abstract: The Active Target Time Projection Chamber (AT-TPC) project at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) is a novel Active Target designed to study nuclear reactions induced by low-intensity exotic beams. The AT-TPC acts as a tracking medium and target at the same time, providing excellent angular (1 ° ) and energy resolution (3% FWHM) and high luminosity . The AT-TPC offers a broad range of applications within the low-energy nuclear physics domain. Resonant scattering and transfer reactions are typically performed with Active Targets using beams with energies spanning from 1 to 10 A MeV and with intensities as low as 100 pps. The AT-TPC is also a promising tool for experiments where the observables of interest require higher beam energies (above 100 A MeV ). In particular, inelastic scattering reactions on light targets, where the recoil particle has a very low kinetic energy (less than 1 MeV), can be performed with such a device. In this work, we discuss aspects of the AT-TPC experimental program, focusing on experiments that leverage the outstanding capabilities this detector offers. In addition, we introduce a conceptual design for a new Time Projection Chamber detector for specific measurements of reactions using special gases as targets.
Published: 2020

14. Progress Toward A 2νββ Measurement For The Majorana Demonstrator

Author: Yuen-Dat Chan, G. K. Giovanetti, J. F. Wilkerson, K. Vorren, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, C. Wiseman, A. W. P. Poon, C. R. Haufe, B. Shanks, M. A. Howe, J. Gruszko, S. I. Alvis, F. T. Avignone, I. S. Guinn, R. L. Varner, J. E. Trimble, V. E. Guiseppe, A. S. Barabash, Reyco Henning, Ralph Massarczyk, Pinghan Chu, A. M. Lopez, T. Gilliss, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, V. B. Brudanin, C. Dunagan, C.-H. Yu, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, J. Rager, R. D. Martin, Keith Rielage, K. J. Keeter, R. G. H. Robertson, C. D. Christofferson, F. E. Bertrand, M. P. Green, A. W. Bradley, H. Ejiri, D. J. Tedeschi, M. F. Kidd, B. X. Zhu, E. Yakushev, Susanne Mertens, Eric W. Hoppe, T. S. Caldwell, J. Myslik, S. J. Meijer, S. I. Konovalov, V. Yumatov, G. Othman, S. R. Elliott, Yu. Efremenko, B. R. White, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, L. Hehn, C. Cuesta, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, M. Shirchenko, Richard T. Kouzes, T. Bode, D. C. Radford, Kai Vetter, Walter C. Pettus, A. L. Reine, W. Xu, C. J. Barton, and M. Buuck
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear physics, History, MAJORANA, Point contact, Muon, Energy spectrum, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: Author(s): Gilliss, T; Abgrall, N; Alvis, SI; Arnquist, IJ; Avignone, FT; Barabash, AS; Barton, CJ; Bertrand, FE; Bode, T; Bradley, AW; Brudanin, V; Busch, M; Buuck, M; Caldwell, TS; Chan, YD; Christofferson, CD; Chu, PH; Cuesta, C; Detwiler, JA; Dunagan, C; Efremenko, Y; Ejiri, H; Elliott, SR; Giovanetti, GK; Green, MP; Gruszko, J; Guinn, IS; Guiseppe, VE; Haufe, CR; Hehn, L; Henning, R; Hoppe, EW; Howe, MA; Keeter, KJ; Kidd, MF; Konovalov, SI; Kouzes, RT; Lopez, AM; Martin, RD; Massarczyk, R; Meijer, SJ; Mertens, S; Myslik, J; O'Shaughnessy, C; Othman, G; Pettus, W; Poon, AWP; Radford, DC; Rager, J; Reine, AL; Rielage, K; Robertson, RGH; Ruof, NW; Shanks, B; Shirchenko, M; Suriano, AM; Tedeschi, D; Trimble, JE; Varner, RL; Vasilyev, S; Vetter, K; Vorren, K; White, BR; Wilkerson, JF; Wiseman, C; Xu, W; Yakushev, E; Yu, CH; Yumatov, V; Zhitnikov, I; Zhu, BX | Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a 76Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) experiment. Staged at the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, the DEMONSTRATOR operates an array of high-purity p-Type point contact Ge detectors deployed within a graded passive shield and an active muon veto system. The present work concerns the two-neutrino double-beta decay mode (2νββ) of 76Ge. For Ge detectors, having superior energy resolution (0.1%), this mode poses negligible background to the 0νββ mode, even for a ton-scale experiment. However, the measurement of the 2νββ mode allows for careful systematics checks of active detector mass, enrichment fraction, and pulse shape discrimination cuts related to both the 0νββ and 2νββ decay modes. A precision measurement of the 2νββ shape also allows searches for spectral distortions, possibly indicative of new physics, including 0νββχ. Work is underway to construct a full experimental background model enabling a Bayesian fit to the measured energy spectrum and extraction of a precise 2νββ spectrum and half-life.
Published: 2020

15. Initial results from the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: Ralph Massarczyk, J. Gruszko, M. Shirchenko, V. B. Brudanin, W. Xu, J. F. Wilkerson, S. Vasilyev, J. Rager, Keith Rielage, N. Abgrall, C. R. Haufe, T. Bode, C. J. Barton, S. I. Alvis, M. Buuck, C. Wiseman, G. K. Giovanetti, F. E. Bertrand, B. Bos, Walter C. Pettus, G. Othman, C. Dunagan, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, J. E. Trimble, A. W. Bradley, Eric W. Hoppe, Pinghan Chu, D. J. Tedeschi, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, Yu. Efremenko, T. S. Caldwell, E. Yakushev, A. S. Barabash, C.-H. Yu, M. F. Kidd, I. S. Guinn, L. Hehn, B. Shanks, C. D. Christofferson, V. E. Guiseppe, B. X. Zhu, A. W. P. Poon, C. Cuesta, D. C. Radford, T. Gilliss, R. D. Martin, R. G. H. Robertson, A. L. Reine, K. Vorren, Kai Vetter, M. A. Howe, Richard T. Kouzes, B. R. White, S. J. Meijer, M. P. Green, H. Ejiri, Susanne Mertens, K. J. Keeter, C. O׳Shaughnessy, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, Chan Y-D., J. Myslik, S. I. Konovalov, V. Yumatov, S. R. Elliott, Anne-Marie Suriano, and J. A. Detwiler
Subjects: Physics, History, MAJORANA, Particle physics, Full data, Neutrino, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: Author(s): Elliott, SR; Abgrall, N; Arnquist, IJ; Avignone, FT; Barabash, AS; Bertrand, FE; Bradley, AW; Brudanin, V; Busch, M; Buuck, M; Caldwell, TS; Chan, YD; Christofferson, CD; Chu, PH; Cuesta, C; Detwiler, JA; Dunagan, C; Efremenko, Y; Ejiri, H; Fullmer, A; Galindo-Uribarri, A; Gilliss, T; Giovanetti, GK; Green, MP; Gruszko, J; Guinn, IS; Guiseppe, VE; Henning, R; Hoppe, EW; Howe, MA; Jasinski, BR; Keeter, KJ; Kidd, MF; Konovalov, SI; Kouzes, RT; Leon, J; Lopez, AM; Macmullin, J; Martin, RD; Massarczyk, R; Meijer, SJ; Mertens, S; Orrell, JL; O'Shaughnessy, C; Poon, AWP; Radford, DC; Rager, J; Rielage, K; Robertson, RGH; Romero-Romero, E; Shanks, B; Shirchenko, M; Suriano, AM; Tedeschi, D; Trimble, JE; Varner, RL; Vasilyev, S; Vetter, K; Vorren, K; White, BR; Wilkerson, JF; Wiseman, C; Xu, W; Yakushev, E; Yu, CH; Yumatov, V; Zhitnikov, I | Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta decay searches seek to determine the nature of neutrinos, the existence of a lepton violating process, and the effective Majorana neutrino mass. The Majorana Collaboration is assembling an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. The Majorana Demonstrator is composed of 44.8 kg (29.7 kg enriched in 76Ge) of Ge detectors in total, split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. The initial goals of the Demonstrator are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based, next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that began in 2015, the first detector module started physics data production in early 2016. We will discuss initial results of the Module 1 commissioning and first physics run, as well as the status and potential physics reach of the full Majorana Demonstrator experiment. The collaboration plans to complete the assembly of the second detector module by mid-2016 to begin full data production with the entire array.
Published: 2020

16. Design improvements to cables and connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: G. K. Giovanetti, L. Hehn, J. Gruszko, J. E. Trimble, C. Cuesta, Pinghan Chu, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, T. Gilliss, M. Busch, R. D. Martin, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, S. J. Meijer, A. W. P. Poon, M. Shirchenko, R. G. H. Robertson, A. S. Barabash, C. J. Barton, M. Buuck, B. X. Zhu, T. Bode, F. T. Avignone, Keith Rielage, D. C. Radford, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, C. R. Haufe, Walter C. Pettus, Anne-Marie Suriano, S. I. Alvis, A. L. Reine, Eric W. Hoppe, J. A. Detwiler, I. Zhitnikov, T. S. Caldwell, C. Dunagan, V.B. Brudanin, M. P. Green, Chang-Hong Yu, A. W. Bradley, Ralph Massarczyk, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, W. Xu, Y-D. Chan, F. E. Bertrand, G. Othman, K. J. Keeter, D. Tedeschi, I. S. Guinn, S. I. Konovalov, C. Wiseman, J. F. Wilkerson, B. R. White, M. A. Howe, V. Yumatov, Yu. Efremenko, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, Richard T. Kouzes, Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, R. L. Varner, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, K. Vorren, and J. Myslik
Subjects: Discrete mathematics, Physics, History, Point contact, MAJORANA, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: Author(s): Haufe, CR; Reine, AL; Abgrall, N; Alvis, SI; Arnquist, IJ; Avignone, FT; Barabash, AS; Barton, CJ; Bertrand, FE; Bode, T; Bradley, AW; Brudanin, V; Busch, M; Buuck, M; Caldwell, TS; Chan, YD; Christofferson, CD; Chu, PH; Cuesta, C; Detwiler, JA; Dunagan, C; Efremenko, Y; Ejiri, H; Elliott, SR; Gilliss, T; Giovanetti, GK; Green, MP; Gruszko, J; Guinn, IS; Guiseppe, VE; Hehn, L; Henning, R; Hoppe, EW; Howe, MA; Keeter, KJ; Kidd, MF; Konovalov, SI; Kouzes, RT; Lopez, AM; Martin, RD; Massarczyk, R; Meijer, SJ; Mertens, S; Myslik, J; O'Shaughnessy, C; Othman, G; Pettus, W; Poon, AWP; Radford, DC; Rager, J; Rielage, K; Robertson, RGH; Ruof, NW; Shanks, B; Shirchenko, M; Suriano, AM; Tedeschi, D; Trimble, JE; Varner, RL; Vasilyev, S; Vetter, K; Vorren, K; White, BR; Wilkerson, JF; Wiseman, C; Xu, W; Yakushev, E; Yu, CH; Yumatov, V; Zhitnikov, I; Zhu, BX | Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in germanium-76 and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a ton-scale experiment in a phased and modular fashion. It consists of two modular arrays of natural and 76Ge-enriched germanium p-Type point contact detectors totaling 44.1 kg, located at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The DEMONSTRATOR uses custom high voltage cables to bias the detectors, as well as custom signal cables and connectors to read out the charge deposited at each detectors point contact. These low-mass cables and connectors must meet stringent radiopurity requirements while being subjected to thermal and mechanical stress. A number of issues have been identified with the currently installed cables and connectors. An improved set of cables and connectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR are being developed with the aim of increasing their overall reliability and connectivity. We will discuss some of the issues encountered with the current cables and connectors as well as our improved designs and their initial performance.
Published: 2020

17. Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay in Ge76 with the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: S. I. Alvis, D. J. Tedeschi, I. Zhitnikov, J. C. Loach, M. Boswell, J. I. Collar, B. R. Jasinski, J. Myslik, C. O'Shaughnessy, L. E. Leviner, Henning O. Back, J. MacMullin, Kai Vetter, W. Xu, V. Yumatov, I. S. Guinn, D. M. Mei, R. A. Johnson, Ronald L. Brodzinski, M. F. Kidd, Yuen-Dat Chan, T. S. Caldwell, A. W. Bradley, A. S. Caldwell, S. I. Konovalov, E. Aguayo, S. R. Elliott, M. Busch, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, P. H. Chu, G. Othman, Reynold J. Cooper, Ralph Massarczyk, A. Galindo-Uribarri, Craig E. Aalseth, M. C. Ronquest, J. Goett, C. J. Barton, K. T. Lesko, S. Zimmermann, T. Gilliss, J. E. Trimble, D. Steele, C. Wiseman, B. K. Fujikawa, K. Vorren, S. Vasilyev, H. Yaver, J. Gruszko, I. J. Arnquist, N. W. Ruof, Keith Rielage, N. Snyder, P. Finnerty, Alexis G. Schubert, C. D. Christofferson, Harry S. Miley, Paul N. Luke, M. Buuck, M. A. Howe, A. L. Hallin, N. Abgrall, Yu. Efremenko, Alan Poon, J. Rager, Anne-Marie Suriano, Paul Barton, A. B. McDonald, J. A. Detwiler, Jonathan D. Leon, James E. Fast, A. S. Barabash, J. H. Merriman, C. Cuesta, R. Henning, C. R. Haufe, A. Knecht, Erin S. Fuller, F. E. Bertrand, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Michael G. Marino, D. C. Radford, K. J. Snavely, C.-H. Yu, A. M. Lopez, J.H. Reeves, K. Pushkin, T. Bode, E. Yakushev, P. J. Doe, Walter C. Pettus, Todd W. Hossbach, B. X. Zhu, A. L. Reine, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, P. S. Barbeau, Nicole R. Overman, A. R. Young, D. G. Phillips, Brian D. LaFerriere, V. E. Guiseppe, J. A. Dunmore, G. K. Giovanetti, M. L. Miller, R. D. Martin, Eric W. Hoppe, Richard T. Kouzes, Susanne Mertens, R. G. H. Robertson, B. Shanks, Jeremy D. Kephart, Werner Tornow, D. C. Combs, Z. Fu, S.J. J Meijer, B. Bos, F. M. Fraenkle, G. Perumpilly, V. M. Gehman, J. F. Wilkerson, B. R. White, L. Hehn, M. P. Green, S. MacMullin, H. Ejiri, and Mark Amman
Subjects: Physics, Semileptonic decay, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, Full width at half maximum, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The Majorana Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-β decay in ^{76}Ge. The Majorana Demonstrator comprises 44.1 kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched in ^{76}Ge) split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Here we present results from data taken during construction, commissioning, and the start of full operations. We achieve unprecedented energy resolution of 2.5 keV FWHM at Q_{ββ} and a very low background with no observed candidate events in 9.95 kg yr of enriched Ge exposure, resulting in a lower limit on the half-life of 1.9×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.). This result constrains the effective Majorana neutrino mass to below 240-520 meV, depending on the matrix elements used. In our experimental configuration with the lowest background, the background is 4.0_{-2.5}^{+3.1} counts/(FWHM t yr).
Published: 2018

18. Search for Neutrinoless Double-β Decay in ^{76}Ge with the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: C E, Aalseth, N, Abgrall, E, Aguayo, S I, Alvis, M, Amman, I J, Arnquist, F T, Avignone, H O, Back, A S, Barabash, P S, Barbeau, C J, Barton, P J, Barton, F E, Bertrand, T, Bode, B, Bos, M, Boswell, A W, Bradley, R L, Brodzinski, V, Brudanin, M, Busch, M, Buuck, A S, Caldwell, T S, Caldwell, Y-D, Chan, C D, Christofferson, P-H, Chu, J I, Collar, D C, Combs, R J, Cooper, C, Cuesta, J A, Detwiler, P J, Doe, J A, Dunmore, Yu, Efremenko, H, Ejiri, S R, Elliott, J E, Fast, P, Finnerty, F M, Fraenkle, Z, Fu, B K, Fujikawa, E, Fuller, A, Galindo-Uribarri, V M, Gehman, T, Gilliss, G K, Giovanetti, J, Goett, M P, Green, J, Gruszko, I S, Guinn, V E, Guiseppe, A L, Hallin, C R, Haufe, L, Hehn, R, Henning, E W, Hoppe, T W, Hossbach, M A, Howe, B R, Jasinski, R A, Johnson, K J, Keeter, J D, Kephart, M F, Kidd, A, Knecht, S I, Konovalov, R T, Kouzes, B D, LaFerriere, J, Leon, K T, Lesko, L E, Leviner, J C, Loach, A M, Lopez, P N, Luke, J, MacMullin, S, MacMullin, M G, Marino, R D, Martin, R, Massarczyk, A B, McDonald, D-M, Mei, S J, Meijer, J H, Merriman, S, Mertens, H S, Miley, M L, Miller, J, Myslik, J L, Orrell, C, O'Shaughnessy, G, Othman, N R, Overman, G, Perumpilly, W, Pettus, D G, Phillips, A W P, Poon, K, Pushkin, D C, Radford, J, Rager, J H, Reeves, A L, Reine, K, Rielage, R G H, Robertson, M C, Ronquest, N W, Ruof, A G, Schubert, B, Shanks, M, Shirchenko, K J, Snavely, N, Snyder, D, Steele, A M, Suriano, D, Tedeschi, W, Tornow, J E, Trimble, R L, Varner, S, Vasilyev, K, Vetter, K, Vorren, B R, White, J F, Wilkerson, C, Wiseman, W, Xu, E, Yakushev, H, Yaver, A R, Young, C-H, Yu, V, Yumatov, I, Zhitnikov, B X, Zhu, and S, Zimmermann
Abstract: The Majorana Collaboration is operating an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-β decay in ^{76}Ge. The Majorana Demonstrator comprises 44.1 kg of Ge detectors (29.7 kg enriched in ^{76}Ge) split between two modules contained in a low background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. Here we present results from data taken during construction, commissioning, and the start of full operations. We achieve unprecedented energy resolution of 2.5 keV FWHM at Q_{ββ} and a very low background with no observed candidate events in 9.95 kg yr of enriched Ge exposure, resulting in a lower limit on the half-life of 1.9×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.). This result constrains the effective Majorana neutrino mass to below 240-520 meV, depending on the matrix elements used. In our experimental configuration with the lowest background, the background is 4.0_{-2.5}^{+3.1} counts/(FWHM t yr).
Published: 2018

19. The processing of enriched germanium for the Majorana Demonstrator and R&D for a next generation double-beta decay experiment

Author: Ralph Massarczyk, G. K. Giovanetti, C. Wiseman, C. R. Haufe, S. Vasilyev, J. F. Wilkerson, F. E. Bertrand, Kai Vetter, N. Abgrall, I. S. Guinn, A. S. Barabash, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, D. C. Radford, M. P. Green, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, W. Xu, H. Ejiri, S. J. Meijer, J. Myslik, J. Caja, C. Dunagan, J. Rager, B. R. Jasinski, A. L. Reine, S. I. Konovalov, Yu. Efremenko, L.M. Toth, J. Gruszko, F. T. Avignone, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, R. L. Varner, C. D. Christofferson, C.-H. Yu, Reyco Henning, Keith Rielage, T. Gilliss, J. Goett, A. M. Lopez, V. Yumatov, J.H. Meyer, C. Cuesta, S. R. Elliott, R. D. Martin, A. W. Bradley, Eric W. Hoppe, K. Vorren, V.B. Brudanin, E. Yakushev, R. G. H. Robertson, T. S. Caldwell, M. Shirchenko, D. J. Tedeschi, M. Caja, Susanne Mertens, M. F. Kidd, B. X. Zhu, I. J. Arnquist, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, J.A. Reising, J. E. Trimble, Pinghan Chu, D.T. Dunstan, B. R. White, J. MacMullin, M. Buuck, and Richard T. Kouzes
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Isotopes of germanium, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Semiconductor detector, ddc, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, chemistry, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Radioactive decay
Abstract: The Majorana Demonstrator is an array of point-contact Ge detectors fabricated from Ge isotopically enriched to 88% in 76 Ge to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The processing of Ge for germanium detectors is a well-known technology. However, because of the high cost of Ge enriched in 76 Ge special procedures were required to maximize the yield of detector mass and to minimize exposure to cosmic rays. These procedures include careful accounting for the material; shielding it to reduce cosmogenic generation of radioactive isotopes; and development of special reprocessing techniques for contaminated solid germanium, shavings, grindings, acid etchant and cutting fluids from detector fabrication. Processing procedures were developed that resulted in a total yield in detector mass of 70%. However, none of the acid-etch solution and only 50% of the cutting fluids from detector fabrication were reprocessed. Had they been processed, the projections for the recovery yield would be between 80% and 85%. Maximizing yield is critical to justify a possible future ton-scale experiment. A process for recovery of germanium from the acid-etch solution was developed with yield of about 90%. All material was shielded or stored underground whenever possible to minimize the formation of 68 Ge by cosmic rays, which contributes background in the double-beta decay region of interest and cannot be removed by zone refinement and crystal growth. Formation of 68 Ge was reduced by a significant factor over that in natural abundance detectors not protected from cosmic rays.
Published: 2018

20. Low Background Materials and Fabrication Techniques for Cables and Connectors in the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: T. Gilliss, R. D. Martin, R. G. H. Robertson, C. J. Barton, V.B. Brudanin, G. K. Giovanetti, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, I. J. Arnquist, J. F. Wilkerson, S. J. Meijer, A. S. Barabash, B. R. White, Keith Rielage, M. Busch, Eric W. Hoppe, M. A. Howe, Kai Vetter, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, C. D. Christofferson, F. T. Avignone, A. W. P. Poon, M. Shirchenko, K. Vorren, T. S. Caldwell, M. F. Kidd, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, V. Yumatov, A. L. Reine, Yu. Efremenko, C. Wiseman, I. S. Guinn, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, D. C. Radford, Chang-Hong Yu, J. Myslik, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, M. Buuck, N. W. Rouf, C. Cuesta, W. Xu, Y-D. Chan, Richard T. Kouzes, Ralph Massarczyk, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, A. W. Bradley, Anne-Marie Suriano, T. Bode, M. P. Green, J. Gruszko, C. R. Haufe, S. I. Alvis, I. Zhitnikov, K. J. Keeter, D. Tedeschi, L. Hehn, J. E. Trimble, G. Othman, Pinghan Chu, F. E. Bertrand, S. I. Konovalov, B. X. Zhu, J. A. Detwiler, C. Dunagan, and R. L. Varner
Subjects: Cryostat, MAJORANA, Fabrication, Reliability (semiconductor), Upgrade, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, Detector, Systems engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Electronics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), physics.ins-det
Abstract: 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 aim of implementing background reduction techniques suitable for a tonne scale Ge-76-based search (the LEGEND collaboration). In the DEMONSTRATOR, germanium detectors operate in an ultra-pure vacuum cryostat at 80 K. One special challenge of an ultra-pure environment is to develop reliable cables, connectors, and electronics that do not significantly contribute to the radioactive background of the experiment. This paper highlights the experimental requirements and how these requirements were met for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, including plans to upgrade the wiring for higher reliability in the summer of 2018. Also described are requirements for LEGEND R&D efforts underway to meet these additional requirements., Proceedings of LRT 2017
Published: 2017

21. Background Model for the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: S. R. Elliott, N. Snyder, M. F. Kidd, Yuen-Dat Chan, A. Hegai, M. A. Howe, A. W. P. Poon, Nicole R. Overman, A. S. Caldwell, C.-H. Yu, Yuri Efremenko, V. V. Timkin, M. P. Green, J. Gruszko, J. F. Wilkerson, S. J. Meijer, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Jeffrey K. Thompson, J. Goett, B. Shanks, P. Finnerty, V. E. Guiseppe, K. Pushkin, B. R. White, H. Ejiri, Masaharu Nomachi, A. Galindo-Uribarri, Keith Rielage, Richard T. Kouzes, S. Vasilyev, J. Rager, Matthew Busch, O.I. Kochetov, Jonathan D. Leon, A. L. Hallin, N. Abgrall, D. Byram, J. E. Trimble, D. C. Combs, K. N. Gusev, W. Xu, D. C. Radford, Tatsushi Shima, R. D. Martin, V. Egorov, C. Wiseman, R. G. H. Robertson, Alexis G. Schubert, Eric W. Hoppe, L. E. Leviner, F. M. Fraenkle, Kai Vetter, G. K. Giovanetti, K. Vorren, J. MacMullin, Ryuta Hazama, J. C. Loach, C. D. Christofferson, Werner Tornow, E. Aguayo, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, A. R. Young, Susanne Mertens, A. S. Barabash, S. MacMullin, P. J. Doe, F. E. Bertrand, M. Boswell, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, M. Shirchenko, Reyco Henning, John L. Orrell, Brian D. LaFerriere, E. Romero-Romero, D. G. Phillips, James E. Fast, C. Cuesta, E. Yakushev, M. C. Ronquest, S. I. Konovalov, K. J. Snavely, Anne-Marie Suriano, and J. A. Detwiler
Subjects: Physics, majorana, business.industry, Physics and Astronomy(all), germanium detector, neutrinoless double beta decay, Semiconductor detector, Reduction (complexity), Point contact, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, Pulse shape analysis, Aerospace engineering, Neutrino, Hpge detector, business
Abstract: The Majorana Collaboration is constructing a system containing 40kg of HPGe detectors to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of a future tonne-scale experiment capable of probing the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region. To realize this, a major goal of the Majorana Demonstrator is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 cnt/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. This goal is pursued through a combination of a significant reduction of radioactive impurities in construction materials with analytical methods for background rejection, for example using powerful pulse shape analysis techniques profiting from the p-type point contact HPGe detectors technology. The effectiveness of these methods is assessed using simulations of the different background components whose purity levels are constrained from radioassay measurements.
Published: 2015

22. The Majorana Low-noise Low-background Front-end Electronics

Author: L. E. Leviner, Yuen-Dat Chan, E. Aguayo, D. C. Radford, W. Xu, Eric W. Hoppe, Masaharu Nomachi, A. Hegai, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, M. A. Howe, Matthew Busch, K. J. Snavely, J. E. Trimble, Nicole R. Overman, O.I. Kochetov, J. Rager, D. Byram, K. Pushkin, J. MacMullin, P. J. Doe, A. S. Caldwell, J. Goett, S. MacMullin, D. C. Combs, S. R. Elliott, Kai Vetter, C.-H. Yu, C. D. Christofferson, B. Shanks, Keith Rielage, V. E. Guiseppe, K. J. Keeter, C. Wiseman, J. Gruszko, V. V. Timkin, V. G. Egorov, V.B. Brudanin, M. Shirchenko, K. Vorren, Ryuta Hazama, John L. Orrell, Alexis G. Schubert, M. P. Green, F. E. Bertrand, H. Ejiri, M. Boswell, Jeffrey K. Thompson, J. F. Wilkerson, Vladimir Yumatov, R. D. Martin, Stanley M. Howard, A. R. Young, P. Finnerty, Yu. Efremenko, K. N. Gusev, E. Romero-Romero, B. R. White, R. G. H. Robertson, M. C. Ronquest, D. G. Phillips, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Brian D. LaFerriere, Werner Tornow, F. M. Fraenkle, Reyco Henning, M. F. Kidd, James E. Fast, Jonathan D. Leon, C. Cuesta, A. S. Barabash, Richard T. Kouzes, S. I. Konovalov, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, E. Yakushev, N. Snyder, Susanne Mertens, A. Galindo-Uribarri, S. J. Meijer, S. Vasilyev, A. L. Hallin, N. Abgrall, Tatsushi Shima, G. K. Giovanetti, and J. C. Loach
Subjects: Physics, business.industry, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, Substrate (electronics), Physics and Astronomy(all), Noise (electronics), Capacitance, neutrinoless double beta decay, law.invention, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, low noise, chemistry, law, Double beta decay, low background, Optoelectronics, charge sensitive amplifer, Resistor, business, resistive-feedback front-end
Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay (ββ(0ν)) of the isotope 76Ge with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium detectors. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale germanium-based ββ(0ν)-decay searches, a major goal of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 cnt/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039-keV Q-value of the 76Ge ββ(0ν)-decay. Such a requirement on the background level significantly constrains the design of the readout electronics, which is further driven by noise and energy resolution performances. We present here the low-noise low- background front-end electronics developed for the low-capacitance p-type point contact (P-PC) germanium detectors of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR. This resistive-feedback front-end, specifically designed to have low mass, is fabricated on a radioassayed fused-silica substrate where the feedback resistor consists of a sputtered thin film of high purity amorphous germanium and the feedback capacitor is based on the capacitance between gold conductive traces.
Published: 2015
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23. Testing the Ge Detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Author: D. C. Radford, Yu. Efremenko, R. D. Martin, E. Romero-Romero, R. G. H. Robertson, D. G. Phillips, Reyco Henning, James E. Fast, V. Egorov, Nicole R. Overman, G. K. Giovanetti, P. J. Doe, C. Cuesta, D. Byram, M. Shirchenko, Brian D. LaFerriere, John L. Orrell, J. Rager, C. Wiseman, Albert Young, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, J. MacMullin, W. Xu, Keith Rielage, Eric W. Hoppe, Alexis G. Schubert, J. Gruszko, N. Snyder, A. Hegai, V. Brudanin, S. MacMullin, Anne-Marie Suriano, Y-D. Chan, K. Pushkin, M. A. Howe, K. J. Snavely, K. N. Gusev, M. Boswell, A. W. P. Poon, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, Richard T. Kouzes, K. Vorren, Kai Vetter, L. E. Leviner, F. E. Bertrand, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, O.I. Kochetov, Stanley M. Howard, Masaharu Nomachi, M. P. Green, J. C. Loach, V. V. Timkin, J. A. Detwiler, M. Busch, Jeffrey K. Thompson, Ryuta Hazama, F. T. Avignone, Jonathan D. Leon, E. Aguayo, J. E. Trimble, S. J. Meijer, R. L. Varner, J. Goett, K. J. Keeter, Werner Tornow, M. C. Ronquest, S. I. Konovalov, Chang-Hong Yu, A. S. Caldwell, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, V. Yumatov, A. Galindo-Uribarri, S. Vasilyev, A. L. Hallin, N. Abgrall, Tatsushi Shima, A. S. Barabash, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, D. C. Combs, J. F. Wilkerson, P. Finnerty, B. R. White, and F. M. Fraenkle
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, majorana, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, Physics and Astronomy(all), germanium detector, Capacitance, neutrinoless double beta decay, Crystal, Nuclear physics, Double beta decay, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Semiconductor detector, Characterization (materials science), MAJORANA, chemistry, Optoelectronics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business
Abstract: High purity germanium (HPGe) crystals will be used for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, where they serve as both the source and the detector for neutrinoless double beta decay. It is crucial for the experiment to understand the performance of the HPGe crystals. A variety of crystal properties are being investigated, including basic properties such as energy resolution, efficiency, uniformity, capacitance, leakage current and crystal axis orientation, as well as more sophisticated properties, e.g. pulse shapes and dead layer and transition layer distributions. In this paper, we will present our measurements that characterize the HPGe crystals. We will also discuss our simulation package for the detector characterization setup, and show that additional information can be extracted from data-simulation comparisons., Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013 (F. Avignone & W. Haxton, editors, Physics Procedia, Elsevier)
Published: 2015

24. The status and initial results of the Majorana demonstrator experiment

Author: V. Yumatov, Yu. Efremenko, V.B. Brudanin, Anne-Marie Suriano, M. Busch, Ralph Massarczyk, Keith Rielage, F. T. Avignone, S. Vasilyev, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, J. E. Trimble, N. Abgrall, J. A. Detwiler, Pinghan Chu, C. Dunagan, D. C. Radford, K. J. Keeter, G. Othman, D. Tedeschi, C. J. Barton, G. K. Giovanetti, I. J. Arnquist, L. Hehn, Eric W. Hoppe, T. S. Caldwell, C. Wiseman, B. Shanks, T. Bode, V. E. Guiseppe, J. Gruszko, A. W. P. Poon, N. W. Rouf, T. Gilliss, F. E. Bertrand, R. D. Martin, A. W. Bradley, J. Myslik, S. I. Konovalov, B. X. Zhu, R. G. H. Robertson, Chang-Hong Yu, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, I. S. Guinn, C. R. Haufe, S. I. Alvis, I. Zhitnikov, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, M. A. Howe, J. F. Wilkerson, B. R. White, M. Shirchenko, C. Cuesta, W. Xu, Y-D. Chan, M. P. Green, K. Vorren, M. Buuck, S. J. Meijer, A. L. Reine, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, Richard T. Kouzes, and A. S. Barabash
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, MAJORANA, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrino, nucl-ex, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Lepton
Abstract: 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 mass. The MAJORANA Collaboration assembled an array of high purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is comprised of 44.1 kg (29.7 kg enriched in Ge-76) of Ge detectors divided between two modules contained in a low-background shield at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. The initial goals of the DEMONSTRATOR are to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based next-generation ton-scale experiment. Following a commissioning run that started in 2015, the first detector module started low-background data production in early 2016. The second detector module was added in August 2016 to begin operation of the entire array. We discuss results of the initial physics runs, as well as the status and physics reach of the full MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment., Proceedings of the MEDEX'17 meeting (Prague, May 29 - June 2, 2017)
Published: 2017

25. Status of the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: B. R. Jasinski, Jonathan D. Leon, M. Buuck, K. Vorren, C.-H. Yu, V. V. Timkin, J. MacMullin, C. Schmitt, R. D. Martin, I. J. Arnquist, N. Snyder, M. F. Kidd, J. Gruszko, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, A. S. Barabash, Yuen-Dat Chan, R. G. H. Robertson, Eric W. Hoppe, M. Shirchenko, A. W. P. Poon, G. K. Giovanetti, John L. Orrell, F. E. Bertrand, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Goett, Nicole R. Overman, M. A. Howe, I. S. Guinn, S. I. Konovalov, S. J. Meijer, S. Vasilyev, Anne-Marie Suriano, Keith Rielage, J. A. Detwiler, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, W. Xu, Brian D. LaFerriere, N. Abgrall, D. Byram, C. Wiseman, E. Yakushev, S. R. Elliott, Yuri Efremenko, D. C. Radford, Susanne Mertens, C. D. Christofferson, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, J. E. Trimble, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, D. Tedeschi, J. Rager, A. S. Caldwell, J. F. Wilkerson, Matthew Busch, B. R. White, M. P. Green, E. Romero-Romero, H. Ejiri, C. Cuesta, Richard T. Kouzes, and Kai Vetter
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Modular design, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Mass scale, Neutrino, Detector array, Nuclear Experiment, business
Abstract: The Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator , an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular high purity Ge detector array to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based neutrinoless double-beta decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the Demonstrator is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. The current status of the Demonstrator is discussed, as are plans for its completion.
Published: 2015

26. Pion emission from the T2K replica target: Method, results and application

Author: B. Maksiak, K. Dynowski, R. Planeta, A. Grzeszczuk, S. Murphy, Stuart Kleinfelder, T. Paul, Viktor Matveev, S.A. Bunyatov, M. Messina, F.F. Guber, Biagio Rossi, D. P. Kikola, P. Seyboth, Gyorgy Vesztergombi, André Rubbia, V. I. Kolesnikov, A. Sadovsky, A. Haesler, Vladimir Vechernin, J. Argyriades, Kreso Kadija, S. Kowalski, M. Słodkowski, Vincent Marin, Darko Veberič, S. Debieux, D. Kolev, M. Posiadala, M. Kirejczyk, R. Tsenov, Andras Laszlo, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, M. Ravonel, O. Petukhov, V. Tereshchenko, G. Stefanek, E. Rondio, S. Puławski, N. G. Antoniou, A. Kapoyannis, D. T. Larsen, Katarzyna Grebieszkow, M. Szuba, G. Pálla, Z. Fodor, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, Ludwik Turko, A. Taranenko, Dieter Røhrich, Y. Ivanov, Mrowczynski, K. Suzuki, M. Bogomilov, Maciej Rybczyński, T. Antičić, J. Dumarchez, M. Roth, J. Stepaniak, M. Vassiliou, Tivadar Kiss, A. Bubak, A. K. Ichikawa, Ágnes Fülöp, J. Kisiel, J. Pluta, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Puzovic, O. Wyszyński, M. Sipos, A. Ferrero, N. Katrynska, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, D. Maletic, Kodai Matsuoka, R. Idczak, S.N. Igolkin, W. Dominik, M. Shibata, G. A. Feofilov, P. Christakoglou, B. Baatar, A. Korzenev, O. Busygina, B. Grabez, A. Wilczek, C. Strabel, T. Matulewicz, V. V. Lyubushkin, Apostolos Panagiotou, W. Zipper, G. L. Melkumov, A. Marchionni, T. Palczewski, V. P. Kondratiev, S. Di Luise, L. Zambelli, E. D. Zimmerman, Alexey Kurepin, W. Rauch, K. Nishikawa, K. Marton, T. Yuan, O. Kochebina, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, H. Ströbele, William Brooks, M. Savic, J. Blümer, N. Davis, P. Staszel, A. Murakami, T. Tolyhi, E. Skrzypczak, A. Marcinek, Ken Sakashita, M.B. Golubeva, W. Peryt, N. Abgrall, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. A. Popov, M. Hartz, Alexey Krasnoperov, D. Kielczewska, R. Lacey, T. Czopowicz, Anar Rustamov, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk, Antonio Ereditato, Z. Majka, M. Gazdzicki, Takashi Kobayashi, T. Hasegawa, A. Ivashkin, Sergey Kuleshov, M. Unger, T. Nakadaira, T. Sekiguchi, P. Chung, Ioana Codrina Maris, R. Ulrich, J. Brzychczyk, Ralph Engel, T. Susa, A. Bravar, Alexander Malakhov, M. Tada, Arnaud Robert, A. Blondel, H. Hakobyan, A. D. Marino, Abgrall, Nicolas, Argyriades, Jeremy, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Debieux, Stéphane, Ferrero, Andréa, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, and Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Neutrino fluxpredictions, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron production, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, Long target, 0103 physical sciences, long target, Neutrino flux predictions, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, neutrino flux predictions, Instrumentation, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Replica, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan needs precise predictions of the initial neutrino flux. The highest precision can be reached based on detailed measurements of hadron emission from the same target as used by T2K exposed to a proton beam of the same kinetic energy of 30 GeV. The corresponding data were recorded in 2007-2010 by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS using a replica of the T2K graphite target. In this paper details of the experiment, data taking, data analysis method and results from the 2007 pilot run are presented. Furthermore, the application of the NA61/SHINE measurements to the predictions of the T2K initial neutrino flux is described and discussed., updated version as published by NIM A
Published: 2013

27. Measurements of $$\pi ^\pm $$ π ± differential yields from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Author: A. Garibov, A. Grzeszczuk, Gyorgy Vesztergombi, B. Maksiak, K. Dynowski, Markus Roth, A. K. Ichikawa, G. A. Feofilov, M. Hartz, A. Tefelska, T. Sekiguchi, E. Rondio, K. Kowalik, D. Tefelski, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, S. R. Johnson, M. Kuich, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, V. Tereshchenko, A. S. Kapoyannis, Marek Gaździcki, Jan Kisiel, S.A. Bunyatov, O. Busygina, O. Wyszyński, L. Zambelli, Fotis K. Diakonos, M. Lewicki, A. Korzenev, T. Kobayashi, Dieter Røhrich, A. Bravar, H. Dembinski, S. Puławski, V. P. Kondratiev, O. Petukhov, M. Vassiliou, Davide Sgalaberna, Ludwik Turko, H. Ströbele, E. Kaptur, A. Haesler, Vladimir Vechernin, Yasir Ali, M. Naskręt, R. Engel, M. Nirkko, R. Sarnecki, S. Kowalski, K. Nishikawa, F. Bay, Evgeny Andronov, K. Suzuki, M. Ćirković, T. Matulewicz, A. Murakami, A. Sadovsky, M. Bogomilov, Katarzyna Grebieszkow, T. Nakadaira, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, K. Marton, A. Taranenko, J. Puzović, G. Stefanek, Andras Laszlo, J. Blümer, K. Schmidt, M. Szuba, R. Płaneta, M.B. Golubeva, A. Wilczek, St Mrówczyński, Antonio Ereditato, V. Galymov, A. V. Brandin, M. Ajaz, S. Debieux, Michal Koziel, V. I. Kolesnikov, Z. Fodor, D. Kolev, M. Friend, M. Unger, B. Baatar, Hidetoshi Kubo, G. B. Mills, Ralf Ulrich, M. Yu, A. Rustamov, André Rubbia, Tobiasz Czopowicz, Maciej Rybczyński, T. Antičić, E. Richter-Wąs, S. V. Morozov, H. J. Mathes, B. Messerly, M. Słodkowski, K. Yarritu, J. Dumarchez, Takahiro Hiraki, Michael Deveaux, B. A. Popov, Dag Larsen, P. Seyboth, M. Ravonel, J. Stepaniak, F.F. Guber, Darko Veberič, V. Paolone, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, A. Wojtaszek-Szwarc, Anne Robert, E. D. Zimmerman, Kodai Matsuoka, S.N. Igolkin, W. Dominik, N. Davis, C. Pistillo, Leonid Vinogradov, Kreso Kadija, M. Shibata, S. Di Luise, D. Manić, V. V. Lyubushkin, Apostolos Panagiotou, I. Selyuzhenkov, G. L. Melkumov, N. Abgrall, A. Seryakov, M. Pavin, T. Hasegawa, V. Matveev, A. Ivashkin, Alexey Kurepin, W. Rauch, P. Staszel, A. Marcinek, M. Tzanov, A. Redij, B. T. Rumberger, Y. Nagai, K. Sakashita, N. G. Antoniou, M. Posiadala-Zezula, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk, A. Hervé, Alexey Krasnoperov, M. Hierholzer, Panagiotis Christakoglou, M. Tada, J. Brzychczyk, R. Tsenov, T. Susa, A. D. Marino, Alexander Malakhov, and A. Blondel
Subjects: Physics, Surface (mathematics), Particle physics, Large Hadron Collider, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Spectrometer, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Replica, Flux, Neutrino beam, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Differential (infinitesimal), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract: Measurements of particle emission from a replica of the T2K 90 cm-long carbon target were performed in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN SPS, using data collected during a high-statistics run in 2009. An efficient use of the long-target measurements for neutrino flux predictions in T2K requires dedicated reconstruction and analysis techniques. Fully-corrected differential yields of π±-mesons from the surface of the T2K replica target for incoming 31 GeV/c protons are presented. A possible strategy to implement these results into the T2K neutrino beam predictions is discussed and the propagation of the uncertainties of these results to the final neutrino flux is performed., The European Physical Journal C, 76 (11), ISSN:1434-6044, ISSN:1434-6052
Published: 2016

28. Search for Pauli exclusion principle violating atomic transitions and electron decay with a p-type point contact germanium detector

Author: Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, A. S. Caldwell, B. R. Jasinski, Reyco Henning, Jonathan D. Leon, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, A. S. Barabash, F. E. Bertrand, J. MacMullin, M. A. Howe, A. W. Bradley, Susanne Mertens, I. S. Guinn, J. Goett, E. Yakushev, T. Gilliss, M. Shirchenko, V. Yumatov, Yu. Efremenko, K. Vorren, John L. Orrell, Ralph Massarczyk, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Rager, I. Zhitnikov, V.B. Brudanin, C. Wiseman, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, R. D. Martin, W. Xu, Richard T. Kouzes, D. C. Radford, J. E. Trimble, Keith Rielage, R. L. Varner, E. Romero-Romero, M. P. Green, Pinghan Chu, Y-D. Chan, Anne-Marie Suriano, Eric W. Hoppe, S. I. Konovalov, S. Vasilyev, K. J. Keeter, R. G. H. Robertson, C. Cuesta, S. J. Meijer, D. Tedeschi, N. Abgrall, M. Buuck, Chang-Hong Yu, Stanley M. Howard, G. K. Giovanetti, J. F. Wilkerson, P. Finnerty, M. Busch, B. R. White, Brian D. LaFerriere, F. T. Avignone, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, J. Gruszko, J. A. Detwiler, C. Dunagan, I. J. Arnquist, and A. W. P. Poon
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, nucl-ex, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, symbols.namesake, Particle and Plasma Physics, Pauli exclusion principle, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Quantum Physics, Auger effect, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Semiconductor detector, MAJORANA, Atomic electron transition, symbols, Neutrino
Abstract: A search for Pauli-exclusion-principle-violating K-alpha electron transitions was performed using 89.5 kg-d of data collected with a p-type point contact high-purity germanium detector operated at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. A lower limit on the transition lifetime of 5.8x10^30 seconds at 90% C.L. was set by looking for a peak at 10.6 keV resulting from the x-ray and Auger electrons present following the transition. A similar analysis was done to look for the decay of atomic K-shell electrons into neutrinos, resulting in a lower limit of 6.8x10^30 seconds at 90 C.L. It is estimated that the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 44 kg array of p-type point contact detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge, could improve upon these exclusion limits by an order of magnitude after three years of operation. Abgrall, N; Arnquist, I J; Avignone, F T; Barabash, A S; Bertrand, F E; Bradley, A W; Brudanin, V; Busch, M; Buuck, M; Caldwell, A S; Chan, Y-D; Christofferson, C D; Chu, P -H; Cuesta, C; Detwiler, J A; Dunagan, C; Efremenko, Yu; Ejiri, H; Elliott, S R; Finnerty, P S; Galindo-Uribarri, A; Gilliss, T; Giovanetti, G K; Goett, J; Green, M P; Gruszko, J; Guinn, I S; Guiseppe, V E; Henning, R; Hoppe, E W; Howard, S; Howe, M A; Jasinski, B R; Keeter, K J; Kidd, M F; Konovalov, S I; Kouzes, R T; LaFerriere, B D; Leon, J; MacMullin, J; Martin, R D; Massarczyk, R; Meijer, S J; Mertens, S; Orrell, J L; O'Shaughnessy, C; Poon, A W P; Radford, D C; Rager, J; Rielage, K; Robertson, R G H; Romero-Romero, E; Shanks, B; Shirchenko, M; Suriano, A M; Tedeschi, D; Trimble, J E; Varner, R L; Vasilyev, S; Vetter, K; Vorren, K; White, B R; Wilkerson, J F; Wiseman, C; Xu, W; Yakushev, E; Yu, C -H; Yumatov, V; Zhitnikov, I
Published: 2016

29. The Majorana Demonstrator radioassay program

Author: T. Gilliss, M. L. Miller, C. D. Christofferson, J. Goett, R. D. Martin, N. Abgrall, Ralph Massarczyk, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gruszko, A. S. Caldwell, R. G. H. Robertson, Stanley M. Howard, M. P. Green, Nicole R. Overman, W. Xu, Kai Vetter, H. Ejiri, S. Meijer, C.-H. Yu, B. R. Jasinski, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, J. E. Trimble, V. E. Guiseppe, V. M. Gehman, F. T. Avignone, B. Shanks, R. L. Varner, K. Vorren, I. S. Guinn, Reyco Henning, D. C. Radford, O.I. Kochetov, K. J. Snavely, Eric W. Hoppe, R. A. Johnson, M. F. Kidd, Keith Rielage, Yuen-Dat Chan, A. W. Bradley, S. Vasilyev, D. Byram, M. Buuck, S. I. Konovalov, Henning O. Back, G. K. Giovanetti, K. Pushkin, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, M. A. Howe, J. F. Wilkerson, J. C. Loach, Pinghan Chu, D. J. Tedeschi, Richard T. Kouzes, A. S. Barabash, Jonathan D. Leon, S. MacMullin, P. Finnerty, B. R. White, C. Wiseman, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, J. Rager, J. MacMullin, Alexis G. Schubert, V. Yumatov, C. O'Shaughnessy, S. R. Elliott, J. A. Dunmore, E. Yakushev, Susanne Mertens, M. C. Ronquest, E. Romero-Romero, Yu. Efremenko, C. Cuesta, Brian D. LaFerriere, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, F. E. Bertrand, M. Boswell, D. Steele, I. J. Arnquist, N. Snyder, and A. W. P. Poon
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Radiopurity, nucl-ex, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Mass spectroscopy, Particle and Plasma Physics, Germanium counting, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutron activation analysis, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Low background, Physics, MAJORANA, Mass spectrometry, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Detector, Molecular, Trace analysis, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Semiconductor detector, Other Physical Sciences, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Neutron activation
Abstract: The MAJORANA collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTATOR at the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, SD. The apparatus will use Ge detectors, enriched in isotope \nuc{76}{Ge}, to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale Ge detector experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. The long half-life of this postulated process requires that the apparatus be extremely low in radioactive isotopes whose decays may produce backgrounds to the search. The radioassay program conducted by the collaboration to ensure that the materials comprising the apparatus are sufficiently pure is described. The resulting measurements of the radioactive-isotope contamination for a number of materials studied for use in the detector are reported., to be submitted to NIM
Published: 2016

30. Muon Flux Measurements at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the Majorana Demonstrator Veto System

Author: Jonathan D. Leon, C. Schmitt, J. Gruszko, T. Gilliss, A. S. Barabash, I. S. Guinn, R. D. Martin, B. R. Jasinski, Keith Rielage, W. Xu, E. Aguayo, Brian D. LaFerriere, R. G. H. Robertson, J. MacMullin, Yu. Efremenko, C. Wiseman, M. P. Green, V. Yumatov, D. Byram, C. Dunagan, C.-H. Yu, E. Romero-Romero, A. W. Bradley, S. R. Elliott, H. Ejiri, J. F. Wilkerson, Ralph Massarczyk, A. Galindo-Uribarri, M. F. Kidd, Nicole R. Overman, D. J. Tedeschi, B. R. White, C. Cuesta, Yuen-Dat Chan, S. Vasilyev, N. Abgrall, J. Goett, Eric W. Hoppe, M. Shirchenko, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, John L. Orrell, B. Shanks, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, V. E. Guiseppe, K. Vorren, J. E. Trimble, Susanne Mertens, Kai Vetter, Pinghan Chu, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, C. D. Christofferson, F. E. Bertrand, F. T. Avignone, M. A. Howe, R. L. Varner, J. Rager, Reyco Henning, D. C. Radford, A. M. Lopez, A. S. Caldwell, S. I. Konovalov, G. K. Giovanetti, Richard T. Kouzes, Stanley M. Howard, S. J. Meijer, M. Buuck, E. Yakushev, M. C. Ronquest, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, and N. Snyder
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Ray, Veto, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Muon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, MAJORANA, Muon flux, Cosmic, Astronomical and Space Sciences
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the total MUON flux underground at the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility at the 4850 ft level. Measurements were done with the Majorana Demonstrator veto system arranged in two different configurations. The measured total flux is (5.31+/-0.17) x 10^-9 muons/s/cm^2., 15 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2016

31. New limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator

Author: M. P. Green, H. Ejiri, W. Xu, Eric W. Hoppe, J. Goett, Kai Vetter, M. Shirchenko, C. R. Haufe, C. D. Christofferson, D. C. Radford, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, Keith Rielage, T. Gilliss, K. Vorren, I. J. Arnquist, I. S. Guinn, Richard T. Kouzes, R. D. Martin, C. Dunagan, C.-H. Yu, Yu. Efremenko, Stanley M. Howard, J. Rager, A. S. Barabash, R. G. H. Robertson, T. S. Caldwell, A. L. Reine, C. Cuesta, S. I. Konovalov, C. Wiseman, G. K. Giovanetti, D. J. Tedeschi, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, B. R. White, V. Yumatov, E. Yakushev, J. F. Wilkerson, Yuen-Dat Chan, S. R. Elliott, M. F. Kidd, B. X. Zhu, F. E. Bertrand, M. A. Howe, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, J. MacMullin, J. Gruszko, J. E. Trimble, Pinghan Chu, M. Buuck, S. J. Meijer, Susanne Mertens, K. J. Keeter, V.B. Brudanin, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, A. M. Lopez, B. R. Jasinski, A. W. Bradley, Ralph Massarczyk, S. Vasilyev, and N. Abgrall
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, Vector boson, Pseudoscalar, Nuclear physics, symbols.namesake, MAJORANA, Pauli exclusion principle, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Axion
Abstract: We present new limits on exotic keV-scale physics based on 478 kg d of MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR commissioning data. Constraints at the 90% confidence level are derived on bosonic dark matter (DM) and solar axion couplings, Pauli exclusion principle violating (PEPV) decay, and electron decay using monoenergetic peak signal-limits above our background. Our most stringent DM constraints are set for 11.8 keV mass particles, limiting $g_{Ae} 1.2 \times 10^{24}\;$yr for $e^- \rightarrow$ invisible.
Published: 2016
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32. Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay

Author: Kai Vetter, G. K. Giovanetti, Brian D. LaFerriere, M. P. Green, J. Rager, I. S. Guinn, Howe, D. Byram, V. B. Brudanin, H. Ejiri, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, Yuen-Dat Chan, T. Gilliss, A. S. Barabash, B. R. Jasinski, J. F. Wilkerson, F. E. Bertrand, R. D. Martin, E. Yakushev, I. J. Arnquist, N. Snyder, E. Romero-Romero, R. G. H. Robertson, Keith Rielage, Richard T. Kouzes, B. R. White, S. J. Meijer, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, W. Xu, C. O'Shaughnessy, J. E. Trimble, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, J. Gruszko, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, S. Mertens, C. Wiseman, M. Buuck, A. W. Bradley, F. T. Avignone, C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera, R. L. Varner, Eric W. Hoppe, Jonathan D. Leon, C.-H. Yu, A. Galindo-Uribarri, Reyco Henning, S. Vasilyev, D. J. Tedeschi, N. Abgrall, J. MacMullin, C. Cuesta, K. Vorren, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, K. J. Keeter, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, A. S. Caldwell, J. Goett, S. I. Konovalov, Yu. Efremenko, S. R. Elliott, and D. C. Radford
Subjects: Physics, MAJORANA, Particle physics, Double beta decay
Published: 2015

33. Evidence of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

Author: Scott Davis, D. Hansen, S. J. Ives, K. Zaremba, C. A. Miller, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, Takahiro Hiraki, K. Huang, Atsushi Takeda, C. W. Walter, R. J. Wilkes, K. P. Lee, M. Day, A. Longhin, M. Barbi, E. Radicioni, J. Marteau, D. Naples, T. Sekiguchi, A. Hillairet, Z. Williamson, S. Manly, C. Wilkinson, D. Sgalaberna, T. Nakai, D. Cherdack, H. Kaji, T. Tomura, D. L. Wark, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, L. Zambelli, C. Yanagisawa, F. Bay, M. Miura, M. Y. Pac, B. A. Popov, K. Abe, R. Sacco, E. Rondio, T. Nicholls, Robert Wilson, C. McGrew, E. L. Mathie, N. McCauley, S. Tobayama, M. Messina, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, Y. Petrov, T. Hara, V. Galymov, C. Andreopoulos, M. Mezzetto, R. Ohta, A. Konaka, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, B. Smith, Michal Dziewiecki, S. B. Boyd, Masashi Tanaka, J. Kameda, Dmitriy Beznosko, E. Reinherz-Aronis, T. J. Irvine, P. Przewlocki, A. P. Furmanski, A. D. Marino, Ken Sakashita, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Henry W. Sobel, S. Horikawa, J. Lagoda, A. Kilinski, E. Scantamburlo, M. Ravonel, S. Dytman, S. M. Oser, Y. Fukuda, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, J. P. Coleman, M. Bass, W. Toki, H. Kubo, S. Nakayama, C. Bojechko, Kate Scholberg, Y. Seiya, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, A. Blondel, Lester D.R. Thompson, Alexander Finch, J. D. Perkin, M. Szeptycka, P. A. Rodrigues, I. Z. Danko, A. Jacob, S. J. Coleman, Seiko Hirota, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, Kendall Mahn, M. Gonin, J. Dobson, G. Christodoulou, E. Mazzucato, D. Autiero, L. Escudero, J. Schwehr, Koh Ueno, F. Di Lodovico, G. F. Pearce, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, M. J. Wilking, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, M. Hartz, W. Oryszczak, Joshua Hignight, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, Yu. G. Kudenko, S. Y. Suzuki, Masato Shiozawa, Yoshihiro Suzuki, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, K. Iyogi, M. Ikeda, A. C. Kaboth, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, S. Murphy, Kevin Scott McFarland, Takashi Kobayashi, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, Federico Sanchez, K. Suzuki, C. Hearty, Y. Takeuchi, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, A. Haesler, L. Monfregola, P. Hamilton, A. Murakami, D. Payne, L. Ludovici, Richard J.H. Smith, N. J. Buchanan, M. Lawe, E. D. Zimmerman, Y. Totsuka, M. A.M. Rayner, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, T. Wongjirad, T. Golan, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, M. Nirkko, Yoshinari Hayato, Iain Alexander Bertram, Masayuki Nakahata, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, Y. Uchida, R. P. Litchfield, S. Assylbekov, T. Dealtry, Minoru Otani, A. Missert, T. Duboyski, F. Retiere, S. Bhadra, M. Ieva, K. Kowalik, M. D. Haigh, C. Licciardi, A. Marchionni, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, H.A. Tanaka, P. Mijakowski, M. B. Smy, J. Steinmann, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, C. K. Jung, P. Jonsson, I. Taylor, S. W. K. Emery, Y. Fujii, M. Vagins, T. Kikawa, D. Brailsford, M. Shibata, D. Ruterbories, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, J. Marzec, A. Himmel, R. Poutissou, S. Di Luise, R. G. Calland, B. Quilain, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Robert, D. Gudin, P. Sinclair, P. Masliah, A. Dabrowska, L. Cremonesi, T. McLachlan, A. Curioni, T. Ishii, T. Maruyama, J. Holeczek, M. Lazos, J. Dumarchez, A. Izmaylov, S. Berkman, T. Nakadaira, M. M. Khabibullin, J. H. Jo, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, Hiroaki Aihara, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, A. K. Ichikawa, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, F. Khanam, M. Dziomba, G.D. Barr, O. Drapier, V. Paolone, Viktor Matveev, S. Roth, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, S. B. Kim, P. de Perio, Th. A. Mueller, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J. Y. Kim, Matthew T. Reeves, A. Kolaceke, T. Ishida, T. Lindner, Y. Obayashi, M. Friend, C. Densham, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, M. M. Tanaka, H. Kakuno, I. Karpikov, Yukika Nishimura, H. M. O'Keeffe, A. Suzuki, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, B. Still, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Kearns, E. Poplawska, André Rubbia, Yusuke Koshio, M. Murdoch, S. Yen, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, S. Takahashi, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, Y. Yamada, A. Clifton, M. Sorel, R. A. Wendell, S. L. Cartwright, R. A. Johnson, K. Connolly, Vincenzo Berardi, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, D. Terhorst, Tomoko Ariga, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, A. Zalewska, G. Kogan, G. De Rosa, R. A. Owen, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, G. Vasseur, T. Yuan, Frédéric Dufour, I. T. Lim, Akitaka Ariga, Shigeki Aoki, Oleg Mineev, S. Giffin, L. L. Kormos, M. Ziembicki, J. Kisiel, A. C. Weber, N. Grant, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, J. Insler, M. Zito, I. Kreslo, K. Gilje, T. Tsukamoto, K. Nishikawa, Kimihiro Okumura, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, D. G. Brook-Roberge, K. Koseki, A. Minamino, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, Y. Kanazawa, M. Malek, B. Kirby, R. Terri, K. Nakayoshi, R. L. Helmer, S. Kumaratunga, D. I. Scully, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, Rhiju Das, B. Jamieson, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, German Research Foundation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland), Russian Foundation for Basic Research, National Research Foundation of Korea, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Abgrall, Nicolas, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, Rayner, Mark, Scantamburlo, Enrico, K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, T., Akiri, J. 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Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Momentum range, Muon neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, T2K experiment, Física, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Absorption cross-sections, Electron neutrino, Beam (structure)
Abstract: The T2K Collaboration reports evidence for electron neutrino appearance at the atmospheric mass splitting, vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar approximate to 2.4 X 10(-3) eV(2). An excess of electron neutrino interactions over background is observed from a muon neutrino beam with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV at the Super-Kamiokande (SK) detector 295 km from the beam's origin. Signal and background predictions are constrained by data from near detectors located 280 m from the neutrino production target. We observe 11 electron neutrino candidate events at the SK detector when a background of 3.3 +/- 0.4(syst) events is expected. The background-only hypothesis is rejected with a p value of 0.0009 (3.1 sigma), and a fit assuming nu(mu) -> nu(e) oscillations with sin (2)2 theta(23) = 1, delta(CP) = 0 and vertical bar Delta m(32)(2)vertical bar = 2.4 X 10(-3) eV(2) yields sin (2)2 theta(13) = 0.088(-0.039)(+0.049)(stat + syst)., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and CERN NA61 colleagues for providing essential particle production data and for their fruitful collaboration. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, U.K.; NSF and DOE, USA We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from ERC (FP7), EU; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, UK; DOE Early Career program, and the A. P. Sloan Foundation, USA Computations were performed on the supercomputers at the SciNet [115] HPC Consortium. SciNet is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation under the auspices of Compute Canada; the Government of Ontario; Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence; and the University of Toronto.
Published: 2013

34. Measurement of the Inclusive NuMu Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon in the Near Detector of the T2K Experiment

Author: J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, F. Di Lodovico, T. Maruyama, R. A. Wendell, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, G. Vasseur, J. H. Jo, J. Lagoda, M. Tada, C. Bojechko, R. J. Wilson, Alexander Finch, C. W. Walter, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, Masashi Tanaka, A. P. Furmanski, V. Paolone, A. Jacob, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, A. K. Ichikawa, L. Monfregola, S. Manly, P. Hamilton, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, M. Mezzetto, K. Ieki, M. Ieva, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, S. Roth, J. Kameda, E. Kearns, D. Karlen, I. Karpikov, R. Tacik, O. Perevozchikov, M. Barbi, S. L. Cartwright, Hiroyuki Sekiya, R. J. Wilkes, T. Szeglowski, F. Bay, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Y. Fukuda, Kendall Mahn, Akitaka Ariga, Michal Dziewiecki, K. Connolly, Th. A. Mueller, Ko Okumura, Y. Takeuchi, T. Dealtry, M. M. Tanaka, Antonin Vacheret, Masashi Yokoyama, Matthew T. Reeves, E. Poplawska, Minoru Otani, A. Missert, P. Guzowski, D. Ruterbories, C. Wilkinson, André Rubbia, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, M. Tzanov, P. Mijakowski, A. Zalewska, C. J. Metelko, D. Terhorst, D. Payne, D. Sgalaberna, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, Shigeki Aoki, T. Kutter, K. Nakajima, M. Friend, P. Jonsson, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, A. Clifton, C. Yanagisawa, E. Scantamburlo, M. J. Wilking, H. Kakuno, L. Zambelli, R.P. Kurjata, R. A. Johnson, Anne Robert, S. Giffin, S. W. Bentham, H. M. O'Keeffe, L. L. Kormos, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, I. Z. Danko, M. B. Smy, Kazuhiro Suzuki, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, V. Matveev, T. Akiri, K. S. McFarland, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Steinmann, T. Hasegawa, Gareth J. Barker, M. Hierholzer, D. Naples, P. Sinclair, Yusuke Koshio, A. Hillairet, K. Gilje, C. K. Jung, P. Kitching, T. McLachlan, W. R. Kropp, M. O. Wascko, A. Konaka, S. Tobayama, J. Marzec, S. Emery, W. H. Toki, M. Ikeda, Dmitriy Beznosko, K. Nishikawa, Masato Shiozawa, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, S. J. Coleman, S. Horikawa, Jan T. Sobczyk, J. P. Coleman, C. Touramanis, A. Haesler, F. Sanchez, S. J. Ives, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, S. Bhadra, A. C. Weber, D. Brailsford, R. Poutissou, K. Laihem, P. Masliah, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, P. Stamoulis, A. Dabrowska, Frédéric Dufour, T. Tomura, K. Koseki, E. L. Mathie, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, A. T. Suzuki, J. F. Martin, S. B. Kim, N. Grant, D. G. Brook-Roberge, J. Y. Kim, G. Kogan, S. B. Boyd, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, T. Lindner, G. De Rosa, D. Autiero, T. Nakadaira, Y. Obayashi, C. Densham, R. A. Owen, M. Zito, P. A. Rodrigues, A. Thorley, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, M. Szeptycka, A. Korzenev, M. Miura, M. Murdoch, S. Nakayama, S. Mine, S. Yen, T. Yuan, I. Kreslo, M. Dziomba, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, K. Kowalik, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, M. Y. Pac, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. R. Vagins, A. Blondel, Iain Alexander Bertram, Rhiju Das, J. Imber, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, B. Jamieson, Yukika Nishimura, A. N. Khotjantsev, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, T. Duboyski, N. J. 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Williamson, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, J. Dobson, H. Kaji, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, Joshua Hignight, W. Oryszczak, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, T. Sekiguchi, L. Ludovici, M. Sorel, Yasunari Suzuki, M. D. Haigh, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, Takahiro Hiraki, M. A.M. Rayner, T. Wongjirad, A. Kilinski, T. Ishii, P. de Perio, Yoshikazu Yamada, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Bass, A. C. Kaboth, A. Cervera, R. Terri, M. Ravonel, M. Lawe, H. W. Sobel, C. Licciardi, G. Christodoulou, K. Nakamura, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, I. Taylor, B. Quilain, S. Assylbekov, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, S. Moriyama, Koji Yamamoto, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, T. J. Irvine, V. Galymov, E. Mazzucato, G. F. 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Abstract: T2K has performed the first measurement of nu(mu) inclusive charged current interactions on carbon at neutrino energies of similar to 1 GeV where the measurement is reported as a flux-averaged double differential cross section in muon momentum and angle. The flux is predicted by the beam Monte Carlo and external data, including the results from the NA61/SHINE experiment. The data used for this measurement were taken in 2010 and 2011, with a total of 10.8 x 10(19) protons-on-target. The analysis is performed on 4485 inclusive charged current interaction candidates selected in the most upstream fine-grained scintillator detector of the near detector. The flux-averaged total cross section is (phi) = (6.91 +/- 0.13(stat) +/- 0.84(syst)) x 10(-39) cm(2)/nucleon for a mean neutrino energy of 0.85 GeV., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and CERN NA61 colleagues for providing essential particle production data and for their fruitful collaboration. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, UK; NSF and DOE, USA. We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from: ERC (FP7), EU; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, UK; DOE Early Career program, and the A. P. Sloan Foundation, USA.
Published: 2013
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Author: Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, R. Ohta, A. Suzuki, S. Tobayama, T. Ishii, M. M. Khabibullin, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, S. Dytman, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, A. Laing, D. R. Hadley, V. Galymov, L. Ludovici, W. Toki, J. D. Perkin, S. Nakayama, S. W. K. Emery, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, M. D. Haigh, H. Kubo, C. W. Walter, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, W. Oryszczak, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, M. Messina, S. M. Oser, S. Horikawa, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, A. Zalewska, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, G. Kogan, E. Radicioni, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, J. Lagoda, E. Mazzucato, T. Ishida, G. F. Pearce, M. Bass, M. Lawe, Y. Seiya, J. Schwehr, G. De Rosa, Ken Sakashita, R. A. Owen, S. J. Ives, Kimihiro Okumura, D. G. Brook-Roberge, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, P. A. Rodrigues, C. A. Miller, D. L. Wark, R. Castillo, M. Macaire, Masato Shiozawa, M. Y. Pac, Yuichi Oyama, J. Dobson, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, J. Marzec, C. Licciardi, S. Murphy, C. Bojechko, R. P. Litchfield, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, Alexander Finch, M. Mezzetto, F. Di Lodovico, T. Yuan, C. K. Jung, A. Haesler, S. Assylbekov, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, Y. Totsuka, M. A.M. Rayner, M. Day, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, Z. Williamson, C. Hearty, Hiroyuki Sekiya, D. Cherdack, K. Abe, R. Sacco, C. McGrew, C. Andreopoulos, T. Szeglowski, M. Murdoch, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, I. Taylor, A. Dabrowska, T. Tomura, Akitaka Ariga, E. L. Mathie, Yu. G. Kudenko, J. F. Martin, G. Jover-Manas, M. Tzanov, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, T. Dealtry, H.A. Tanaka, Iain Alexander Bertram, S. Yen, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, T. Yano, T. Wongjirad, A. Murakami, H. Kaji, A. D. Marino, S. J. Coleman, B. Quilain, F. Retiere, L. Monfregola, Takahiro Hiraki, A. Marchionni, A. Missert, P. Guzowski, P. Mijakowski, K. Koseki, C. J. Metelko, E. Frank, A. Bravar, K. Zaremba, Kendall Mahn, M. Sorel, Marco Laveder, C. Touramanis, M. B. Smy, S. B. Boyd, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, Shigeki Aoki, T. Lindner, A. Himmel, K. 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P., Guerra, P., Plonski, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, B., Quilain, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, M., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M., Reeve, E., Reinherz Aroni, F., Retiere, P., Rodrigue, E., Rondio, B., Rossi, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., Sánchez, E., Scantamburlo, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, D., Scully, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, M., Shibata, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, Y., Shustrov, P., Sinclair, B., Smith, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, L., Southwell, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, R., Sulej, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, M., Szeptycka, R., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takeuchi, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Taylor, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, S., Tobayama, W., Toki, T., Tomura, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, A., Waldron, C., Walter, J., Wang, D., Wark, M., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, G., Wikström, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, C., Wilkinson, Z., Williamson, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, Y., Yamada, K., Yamamoto, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., Åmuda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, ddc:500.2, Antiprotons, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Pions, 0103 physical sciences, Momentum range, Muon neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, QC, Physics, Gev-c, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Particle-production, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Física, Detector, Monitor, Solar neutrino problem, Nuclei, Neutrino detector, 13. Climate action, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Protons, Absorption cross-sections, Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using an off-axismuon neutrino beam with a peak energy of about 0.6 GeV that originates at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex accelerator facility. Interactions of the neutrinos are observed at near detectors placed at 280 m from the production target and at the far detector-Super-Kamiokande-located 295 km away. The flux prediction is an essential part of the successful prediction of neutrino interaction rates at the T2K detectors and is an important input to T2K neutrino oscillation and cross section measurements. A FLUKA and GEANT3-based simulation models the physical processes involved in the neutrino production, from the interaction of primary beam protons in the T2K target, to the decay of hadrons and muons that produce neutrinos. The simulation uses proton beam monitor measurements as inputs. The modeling of hadronic interactions is reweighted using thin target hadron production data, including recent charged pion and kaon measurements from the NA61/SHINE experiment. For the first T2K analyses the uncertainties on the flux prediction are evaluated to be below 15% near the flux peak. The uncertainty on the ratio of the flux predictions at the far and near detectors is less than 2% near the flux peak., We thank the J-PARC accelerator team for the superb accelerator performance and the J-PARC center for the continuous support of the T2K experiment. We are grateful to the NA61/SHINE collaboration and FLUKA team for their assistance to make our data-driven flux prediction. We acknowledge the support of MEXT, Japan; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CEA and CNRS/IN2P3, France; DFG, Germany; INFN, Italy; National Science Centre, Poland; RAS, RFBR and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; MEST and NRF, South Korea; MICINN and CPAN, Spain; SNSF and SER, Switzerland; STFC, U.K.; NSF and DOE, U.S.. We also thank CERN for their donation of the UA1/NOMAD magnet and DESY for the HERA-B magnet mover system. In addition, participation of individual researchers and institutions in T2K has been further supported by funds from: ERC (FP7), E.U.; JSPS, Japan; Royal Society, U.K.; DOE Early Career program; and the A.P. Sloan Foundation, U.S.
Published: 2013

36. The Majorana Demonstrator: A Search for Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay of 76Ge

Author: F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, C. Wiseman, A. S. Caldwell, J. Gruszko, K. Vorren, K. J. Keeter, C.-H. Yu, M. P. Green, D. C. Radford, M. C. Ronquest, J. MacMullin, Yuen-Dat Chan, Susanne Mertens, Brian D. LaFerriere, H. Ejiri, Yu. Efremenko, R. D. Martin, D. J. Tedeschi, E. Romero-Romero, J. E. Trimble, S. I. Konovalov, Eric W. Hoppe, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, S. J. Meijer, M. A. Howe, M. F. Kidd, Matthew Busch, C. Cuesta, J. Goett, R. G. H. Robertson, E. Yakushev, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, V. B. Brudanin, C. D. Christofferson, G. K. Giovanetti, M. Buuck, N. Snyder, Nicole R. Overman, F. E. Bertrand, Keith Rielage, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, A. S. Barabash, B. R. Jasinski, J. F. Wilkerson, B. R. White, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Rager, S. Vasilyev, W. Xu, N. Abgrall, S. R. Elliott, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Richard T. Kouzes, Kai Vetter, D. Byram, I. S. Guinn, and Jonathan D. Leon
Subjects: Physics, History, Antiparticle, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Fermion, Electron, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Lepton number, Computer Science Applications, Education, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, Neutron, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Neutrinoless double-beta decay is a hypothesized process where in some even-even nuclei it might be possible for two neutrons to simultaneously decay into two protons and two electrons without emitting neutrinos. This is possible only if neutrinos are Majorana particles, i.e. fermions that are their own antiparticles. Neutrinos being Majorana particles would explicitly violate lepton number conservation, and might play a role in the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay would also provide complementary information related to neutrino masses. The Majorana Collaboration is constructing the Majorana Demonstrator, a 40-kg modular germanium detector array, to search for the Neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge and to demonstrate a background rate at or below 3 counts/(ROI-t-y) in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value for 76Ge Neutrinoless double-beta decay. In this paper, we discuss the physics of neutrinoless double beta decay and then focus on the Majorana Demonstrator, including its design and approach to achieve ultra-low backgrounds and the status of the experiment., Comment: Published Version. 10 pages, 6 figures, proceedings for the 2nd Workshop on Germanium Detectors and Technologies, 14-17 September 2014, at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Published: 2015
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37. MAJORANA Collaboration's Experience with Germanium Detectors

Author: A. Galindo-Uribarri, Yuen-Dat Chan, S. Vasilyev, Alan Poon, N. Abgrall, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, R. D. Martin, J. Gruszko, Yu. Efremenko, J. Goett, J. F. Wilkerson, R. G. H. Robertson, M. A. Howe, E. Romero-Romero, D. J. Tedeschi, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, B. R. White, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, Jonathan D. Leon, V. B. Brudanin, I. S. Guinn, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, B. R. Jasinski, M. P. Green, M. Buuck, C. Wiseman, Nicole R. Overman, Reyco Henning, Eric W. Hoppe, C. Cuesta, J. Rager, D. Byram, Matthew Busch, C.-H. Yu, H. Ejiri, A. S. Barabash, Susanne Mertens, K. J. Keeter, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, S. R. Elliott, Brian D. LaFerriere, D. C. Radford, A. S. Caldwell, Keith Rielage, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, J. MacMullin, Kai Vetter, S. J. Meijer, C. D. Christofferson, F. E. Bertrand, K. Vorren, M. F. Kidd, E. Yakushev, W. Xu, G. K. Giovanetti, J. E. Trimble, Richard T. Kouzes, M. C. Ronquest, S. I. Konovalov, and N. Snyder
Subjects: Physics, History, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Germanium, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Engineering physics, Computer Science Applications, Education, Characterization (materials science), Point contact, MAJORANA, chemistry, Germanium crystal, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The goal of the \textsc{Majorana} \textsc{Demonstrator} project is to search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$. Of all candidate isotopes for 0$\nu\beta\beta$, $^{76}\mathrm{Ge}$ has some of the most favorable characteristics. Germanium detectors are a well established technology, and in searches for 0$\nu\beta\beta$, the high purity germanium crystal acts simultaneously as source and detector. Furthermore, p-type germanium detectors provide excellent energy resolution and a specially designed point contact geometry allows for sensitive pulse shape discrimination. This paper will summarize the experiences the \textsc{Majorana} collaboration made with enriched germanium detectors manufactured by ORTEC$^{\circledR}$. The process from production, to characterization and integration in \textsc{Majorana} mounting structure will be described. A summary of the performance of all enriched germanium detectors will be given., Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2015
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38. Analysis techniques for background rejection at the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Author: J. Gruszko, I. S. Guinn, M. Shirchenko, J. E. Trimble, A. S. Caldwell, John L. Orrell, C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera, G. K. Giovanetti, J. Rager, Kai Vetter, Chang-Hong Yu, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, C. D. Christofferson, M. F. Kidd, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. Byram, J. A. Detwiler, C. Wiseman, Stanley M. Howard, R. L. Varner, S. Vasilyev, B. Shanks, V. E. Guiseppe, T. Gilliss, F. E. Bertrand, D. C. Radford, Brian D. LaFerriere, R. D. Martin, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, Keith Rielage, N. Abgrall, S. J. Meijer, B. R. Jasinski, M. Buuck, R. G. H. Robertson, K. J. Keeter, D. Tedeschi, A. S. Barabash, I. Zhitnikov, M. Busch, Richard T. Kouzes, J. F. Wilkerson, V. Yumatov, E. Romero-Romero, Yu. Efremenko, F. T. Avignone, A. W. Bradley, M. P. Green, I. J. Arnquist, N. Snyder, B. R. White, W. Xu, K. Vorren, C. Cuesta, A. W. P. Poon, J. MacMullin, S. I. Konovalov, Y-D. Chan, Susanne Mertens, Jonathan D. Leon, E. Yakushev, Anne-Marie Suriano, Eric W. Hoppe, J. Goett, Reyco Henning, V.B. Brudanin, and M. A. Howe
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Modular design, Reduction (complexity), MAJORANA, Double beta decay, Neutrino, business, Event (particle physics), Data reduction
Abstract: 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 76Ge. In view of the next generation of tonne-scale Ge-based 0nbb-decay searches that will probe the neutrino mass scale in the inverted-hierarchy region, a major goal of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is to demonstrate a path forward to achieving a background rate at or below 1 count/tonne/year in the 4 keV region of interest around the Q-value at 2039 keV. The background rejection techniques to be applied to the data include cuts based on data reduction, pulse shape analysis, event coincidences, and time correlations. The Point Contact design of the DEMONSTRATOR 0s germanium detectors allows for significant reduction of gamma background., 4 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2015

39. Low background signal readout electronics for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

Author: I. J. Arnquist, N. Snyder, T. Gilliss, R. D. Martin, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, R. G. H. Robertson, Eric W. Hoppe, J. MacMullin, C. D. Christofferson, Brian D. LaFerriere, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Varner, Reyco Henning, M. F. Kidd, C. X. Baldenegro-Barrera, D. J. Tedeschi, W. Xu, J. Goett, A. Galindo-Uribarri, B. Shanks, E. Romero-Romero, V. E. Guiseppe, C.-H. Yu, S. Vasilyev, D. C. Radford, C. Wiseman, N. Abgrall, C. Cuesta, Keith Rielage, M. Buuck, K. J. Keeter, J. E. Trimble, Yuen-Dat Chan, B. R. Jasinski, J. F. Wilkerson, V. B. Brudanin, F. E. Bertrand, A. W. Bradley, S. I. Konovalov, M. A. Howe, Alan Poon, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, B. R. White, C. O'Shaughnessy, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, J. Rager, Yu. Efremenko, S. R. Elliott, Richard T. Kouzes, Kai Vetter, Jonathan D. Leon, A. S. Barabash, I. S. Guinn, J. Gruszko, D. Byram, S. Mertens, M. P. Green, H. Ejiri, I. Zhitnikov, Matthew Busch, K. Vorren, A. S. Caldwell, G. K. Giovanetti, S. J. Meijer, and E. Yakushev
Subjects: Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Readout electronics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Signal, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, MAJORANA, Double beta decay, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Hpge detector, Nuclear Experiment, Scale down
Abstract: The MAJORANA Collaboration will seek neutrinoless double beta decay (0nbb) in 76Ge using isotopically enriched p-type point contact (PPC) high purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors. A tonne-scale array of HPGe detectors would require background levels below 1 count/ROI-tonne-year in the 4 keV region of interest (ROI) around the 2039 keV Q-value of the decay. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of such an experiment, the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 40 kg HPGe detector array, is being constructed with a background goal of, 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. LRT 2015 Proceedings
Published: 2015

40. Recent Results from the T2K Experiment

Author: Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, S. Assylbekov, Koji Yamamoto, K. Abe, A. Cervera, V. Palladino, C. Yanagisawa, A. Blondel, V. Galymov, T. Tomura, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, M. Ziembicki, R. Ohta, W. R. Kropp, Y. Totsuka, J. Zalipska, J. Insler, E. L. Mathie, M. Ravonel, Susumu Takahashi, S. Tobayama, M. Lawe, S. J. Coleman, J. Lagoda, A. Himmel, R. G. Calland, Y. Takeuchi, Gareth J. Barker, D. Gudin, T. Wongjirad, K. Sakashita, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, K. Nishikawa, G. D. Lopez, M. Lazos, T. Kajita, Minoru Otani, S. M. Oser, S. B. Boyd, Y. Shustrov, Robert Wilson, Antonin Vacheret, M. Tzanov, M. Hierholzer, D. Ruterbories, C. Touramanis, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, C. J. Metelko, Rhiju Das, H. W. Sobel, C. Licciardi, J. P. Coleman, C. Bojechko, Kevin Scott McFarland, I. Taylor, S. Horikawa, Y. Seiya, B. Jamieson, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, C. J. Densham, Jan T. Sobczyk, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, M. Zito, Hidekazu Kakuno, Hiroaki Aihara, T. Maruyama, S. Mine, P. N. Ratoff, T. Ishii, G. Christodoulou, J. Holeczek, T. Kutter, K. Nakayoshi, K. Laihem, B. Quilain, S. Murphy, Mauricio Barbi, R. L. Helmer, I. Kreslo, S. Kumaratunga, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, M. Ieva, E. Kearns, Masashi Yokoyama, N. J. Buchanan, J. H. Jo, G.D. Barr, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, M. Friend, L. Southwell, T. Dealtry, J. Myslik, C. W. Walter, E. Poplawska, R. Tacik, A. Missert, J. Zmuda, O. Perevozchikov, S. R. Dennis, A. Bravar, F. Retiere, T. Golan, S. Moriyama, P. Stamoulis, K. Ieki, K. Koseki, Y. Nishimura, T. J. Irvine, Yusuke Koshio, Takahiro Hiraki, D. Karlen, D. Brailsford, I. Karpikov, K. Zaremba, Yuki Fujii, R. Poutissou, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, Masayuki Nakahata, A. Konaka, L. L. Kormos, André Rubbia, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, P. Masliah, C. K. Jung, Hidetoshi Kubo, Atsushi Takeda, R. J. Wilkes, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, Y. Uchida, K. P. Lee, W. H. Toki, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, T. Akiri, M. Ikeda, P. Jonsson, Rosario Castillo, A. Dabrowska, A. Longhin, B. A. Popov, P. A. Rodrigues, J. Dumarchez, G. Kogan, J. Marteau, J. Schwehr, F. Bay, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Szeglowski, T. Hasegawa, T. Tsukamoto, A. Robert, Masato Shiozawa, L. Ludovici, C. Wilkinson, Janusz Marzec, F. Dufour, G. De Rosa, Z. Williamson, Akitaka Ariga, Ko Okumura, Y. Fukuda, A. Izmaylov, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, R. A. Owen, A. Haesler, A. Clifton, D. Sgalaberna, Y. Kanazawa, Joshua Hignight, Kendall Mahn, Yoshihiro Suzuki, A. Redij, S. B. Kim, B. E. Berger, S. Bhadra, S. Emery, P. Sinclair, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, J. D. Perkin, A. J. Finch, R. A. Johnson, T. Lindner, M. A. M. Rayner, S. J. Ives, Shigeki Aoki, David Hadley, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, K. Gilje, M. Macaire, T. Ishida, M. Miura, Michal Dziewiecki, S. Giffin, A. N. Khotjantsev, A. Kolaceke, E. Radicioni, S. Manly, M. J. Wilking, T. Yuan, V. Matveev, D. L. Wark, T. Duboyski, L. Zambelli, J. Steinmann, S. L. Cartwright, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, Kate Scholberg, K. Connolly, T. Hara, A. D. Marino, Yusuke Suda, M. Malek, D. Terhorst, M. Hartz, Masashi Tanaka, Iain Alexander Bertram, A. P. Furmanski, J. Imber, V. Paolone, A. Jacob, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, R. A. Wendell, A. C. Weber, A. Kilinski, J. R. Wilson, C. Nielsen, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Bass, A. C. Kaboth, S. Berkman, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, G. Vasseur, N. Grant, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, T. Nakai, E. Rondio, N. McCauley, R. Terri, K. Huang, P. Przewlocki, Lester D.R. Thompson, M. R. Vagins, A. Murakami, I. T. Lim, C. Hearty, B. Still, Richard J.H. Smith, Jan Kisiel, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, L. Cremonesi, A. Curioni, A. T. Suzuki, J. F. Martin, D. Autiero, T. Nakadaira, M. Nirkko, C. Pistillo, B. Smith, E. Reinherz-Aronis, Y. Petrov, E. Scantamburlo, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, D. Cherdack, I. Z. Danko, M. B. Smy, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, R. 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Subjects: θ13, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Neutrino Oscillation, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Long Baseline, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, T2K, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, and Optics, Neutrino, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract: The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment studies neutrino oscillations using a beam of muon neutrinos produced by an accelerator. The neutrinos travel from J-PARC on the east coast of Japan and are detected 295 kilometers further away in the Super-Kamiokande detector. A complex of near detectors located 280 meters away from the neutrino production target is used to better characterize the neutrino beam and reduce systematic uncertainties. The experiment aims at measuring electronic neutrino appearance ( ν μ → ν e oscillation) to measure the neutrino mixing angle θ 13 , and muon neutrino disappearance to measure the neutrino mixing angle θ 23 and mass splitting | Δ m 32 2 |. We report here electron neutrino appearance results using three years of data, recorded until the 2012 summer, as well as muon neutrino disappearance results based on the data coming from the first two years of the experiment.
Published: 2012

41. Measurements of the T2K neutrino beam properties using the INGRID on-axis near detector

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A., Nowak, Y., Obayashi, T., Ogitsu, H., Ohhata, T., Okamura, K., Okumura, T., Okusawa, S. M., Oser, M., Otani, R. A., Owen, Y., Oyama, T., Ozaki, M. Y., Pac, Palladino, Vittorio, V., Paolone, P., Paul, D., Payne, G. F., Pearce, J. D., Perkin, V., Pettinacci, F., Pierre, E., Poplawska, B., Popov, M., Posiadala, J. M., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, W., Qian, J. L., Raaf, E., Radicioni, P. N., Ratoff, T. M., Raufer, M., Ravonel, M., Raymond, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P. A., Rodrigue, E., Rondio, J. M., Roney, B., Rossi, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, S., Sabouri, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., Sánchez, A., Sarrat, K., Sasaki, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, D. I., Scully, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, M., Shibata, Y., Shimizu, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, M., Siyad, R. J., Smith, M., Smy, J. T., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, A., Stahl, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, J., Stone, M., Stodulski, C., Strabel, R., Sulej, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, J., Swierblewski, T., Szeglowski, M., Szeptycka, R., Tacik, M., Tada, M., Taguchi, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, K., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, M. M., Tanaka, N., Tanimoto, K., Tashiro, I., Taylor, A., Terashima, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L. F., Thompson, A., Thorley, W., Toki, S., Tobayama, T., Tomaru, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, J. J., Walding, A. V., Waldron, C. W., Walter, P. J., Wanderer, J., Wang, M. A., Ward, G. P., Ward, D., Wark, M. O., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, N., West, L. H., Whitehead, G., Wikström, R. J., Wilke, M. J., Wilking, Z., Williamson, J. R., Wilson, R. J., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, S., Yamada, Y., Yamada, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, Y., Yamanoi, H., Yamaoka, T., Yamauchi, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, T., Yuan, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E. D., Zimmerman, M., Zito, and J., Zmuda
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino oscillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, on-axis near detector, FOS: Physical sciences, ddc:500.2, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutrino oscillation, neutrino detector, wavelength shifting fiber, t2k, extruded scintillator, neutrino beam, Neutrino detector, Nuclear physics, Neutrino beam, 0103 physical sciences, Extruded scintillator, Muon neutrino, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, T2K, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Wavelength shifting fiber, T2K experiment, Física, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Wavelength shiftingfiber, Measurements of neutrino speed, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Beam (structure), Lepton
Abstract: Precise measurement of neutrino beam direction and intensity was achieved based on a new concept with modularized neutrino detectors. INGRID (Interactive Neutrino GRID) is an on-axis near detector for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. INGRID consists of 16 identical modules arranged in horizontal and vertical arrays around the beam center. The module has a sandwich structure of iron target plates and scintillator trackers. INGRID directly monitors the muon neutrino beam profile center and intensity using the number of observed neutrino events in each module. The neutrino beam direction is measured with accuracy better than 0.4 mrad from the measured profile center. The normalized event rate is measured with 4% precision., Comment: 32 pages, 27 figures, submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
Published: 2012

42. Indication of electron neutrino appearance from an accelerator-produced off-axis muon neutrino beam

Author: S. Roth, J. Lagoda, M. Iwasaki, Paul Fraser Harrison, T. Okusawa, Jungsang Kim, S. Y. Suzuki, M. Ikeda, M. Bass, F. Pierre, R. A. Wendell, C. Bojechko, C. W. Walter, B. A. Popov, Vincenzo Berardi, P. T. Le, P. Mijakowski, C. Licciardi, Tomoko Ariga, J. Ilic, M. Ravonel, T. Maruyama, E. L. Mathie, V. Galymov, T. Ishii, M. A. George, I. Taylor, G. Vasseur, T. Nakadaira, Kazuhiro Suzuki, M. Ieva, Hirokatsu Ohhata, Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, P. Paul, Kate Scholberg, M. M. Khabibullin, A. Yamamoto, Toru Ogitsu, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, T. Maryon, Michel Raymond, P. Kitching, R. Tacik, M. Hartz, G. Christodoulou, S. B. Boyd, J. R. Wilson, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, E. Frank, M. O. Wascko, C. A. Chavez, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, B. Hartfiel, A. C. Weber, E. Kearns, K. P. Lee, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, M. Szeptycka, M. M. Tanaka, Leigh H. Whitehead, J. P.A.M. De André, E. Mazzucato, Sy Suzuki, Y. Obayashi, K. Mavrokoridis, G. F. Pearce, J. J. Walding, A. Suzuki, J. Myslik, N. Grant, André Rubbia, M. Murdoch, S. W. K. Emery, Masayuki Nakahata, P. de Perio, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, Yusuke Koshio, Masashi Tanaka, S. Yen, T. Ishida, Yoshikazu Yamada, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, T. Yano, T. Golan, Biagio Rossi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Y. Uchida, C. Hansen, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, M. Day, V. Paolone, P. Sutcliffe, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, R. Poutissou, Hs Budd, P. Masliah, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, A. Longhin, Michael Litos, J. Marteau, O. Drapier, K. Iyogi, F. Moreau, E. D. Zimmerman, M. Iida, B. Morgan, M. A. Ward, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, J. M. Levy, L. L. Kormos, T. Kikawa, C. Touramanis, Kendall Mahn, Robert Henderson, A. Hatzikoutelis, H. Kaji, R. A. Johnson, Antonio Ereditato, H. Nishino, M. Zito, N. Yershov, A. Cazes, K. Zaremba, B. Kirby, I. Kreslo, J. Dumarchez, Kevin Scott McFarland, A. Cervera, Henry W. Sobel, V. Palladino, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Takashi Kobayashi, M. Malek, J. Y. Kim, J. Kisiel, T. M. Raufer, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, Y. Takeuchi, A. Delbart, J. D. Perkin, Scott Davis, D. Hansen, R. Sulej, Atsushi Takeda, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Oleg Mineev, K. Hamano, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, T. Tsukamoto, S. J. Ives, R. P. Litchfield, Takayuki Tomaru, Masato Shiozawa, M. Ziembicki, S. Sabouri, Ken Sakashita, Norio Higashi, J. Zalipska, Minoru Otani, David Calvet, C. Strabel, S. Assylbekov, M. Siyad, V. Pettinacci, K. Gilje, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, M. Fechner, A. Haesler, Fred Gannaway, Alexander Finch, D. Ruterbories, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, Akitaka Ariga, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, K. Kowalik, J. Marzec, C. Matsumura, D. Payne, T. Hara, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, Koji Nakamura, M. Barbi, Hiroaki Aihara, G. Jover-Manas, A. Carver, Shigeki Aoki, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, S. Giffin, A. N. Khotjantsev, Y. Fujii, W. Coleman, A. Gendotti, A. Missert, F. Bay, M. Miura, T. Ozaki, A. Muir, Kodai Matsuoka, P. Guzowski, A. Bravar, Frédéric Dufour, C. Yanagisawa, K. Nishikawa, G. P. Ward, I. T. Lim, R. Terri, J. Holeczek, P. Wanderer, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, N. Kimura, H. Kubo, K. Nakajima, M. Tada, P. Gumplinger, R. L. Helmer, Gareth J. Barker, Kimihiro Okumura, K. Koseki, Y. Shimizu, Dmitriy Beznosko, D. G. Brook-Roberge, S. M. Oser, J. P. Coleman, Y. Seiya, J. Schwehr, Yasuo Ajima, T. McLachlan, S. Horikawa, A. Blondel, M. Goldhaber, S. Yamada, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, D. I. Scully, N. J. Buchanan, P. A. Rodrigues, E. Radicioni, M. L. Navin, H.A. Tanaka, Yoshinari Hayato, C. K. Jung, D. L. Wark, M. Y. Pac, Achim Stahl, J. L. Stone, D. Kielczewska, A. Dabrowska, A. D. Marino, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, N. West, I. Kato, K. Kaneyuki, T. C. Nicholls, Gavin Davies, U. Dore, P. Stamoulis, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, L. Ludovici, M. Sorel, A. Gaudin, W. Qian, T. Lindner, C. Densham, G. Kogan, G. De Rosa, S. Hastings, R. A. Owen, M. D. Haigh, A. Badertscher, M. Macaire, Y. Takenaga, M. J. Wilking, Rhiju Das, S. Dytman, B. Jamieson, J. L. Raaf, J. Bouchez, Thorsten Lux, O. Araoka, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, J. Steinmann, K. Abe, R. Sacco, S. L. Cartwright, A. Terashima, C. McGrew, K. Connolly, C. Andreopoulos, D. Terhorst, T. Nakai, Jing Wang, E. Rondio, P. Dinh Tran, N. McCauley, K. Mizouchi, Viktor Matveev, M. Noy, N. Tanimoto, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, M. B. Smy, M. Shibata, A. Hyndman, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, P. F. Loverre, J. M. Roney, Lester D.R. Thompson, Y. Kouzuma, L. R. Sulak, M. Mezzetto, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, I. Z. Danko, K. Sasaki, K. Tashiro, Koh Ueno, Katsuyu Kasami, Yasuhiro Makida, N. Kulkarni, C. Hearty, T. Sekiguchi, Tatsushi Nakamoto, Alastair Grant, Richard J.H. Smith, G. Mituka, A. Murakami, Yutaka Yamanoi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, S. Di Luise, F. Di Lodovico, A. Curioni, K. Hayashi, Barry L. Nelson, Yu. G. Kudenko, L. Monfregola, S. Koike, S. Manly, M. Vagins, B. Andrieu, C. Giganti, B. Still, J. A. Nowak, C. Ishihara, M. Dziomba, Eiichi Hirose, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, V. Kravtsov, S. Murphy, F. Retiere, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, W. Metcalf, T. Wongjirad, S. Nakayama, A. Sarrat, S. Short, N. C. Hastings, D. Naples, A. Robert, A. Izmaylov, Steve K. Choi, J. Zmuda, M. Messina, A. V. Waldron, M. Besnier, J. Dobson, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Robert Wilson, Takahiro Okamura, J. Argyriades, J. Beucher, A. Konaka, W. H. Toki, B. E. Berger, H. Kakuno, L. Zambelli, A. K. 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M., Poutissou, R., Poutissou, P., Przewlocki, W., Qian, J., Raaf, E., Radicioni, P., Ratoff, T., Raufer, M., Ravonel, M., Raymond, F., Retiere, A., Robert, P., Rodrigue, E., Rondio, J., Roney, B., Rossi, S., Roth, A., Rubbia, D., Ruterborie, S., Sabouri, R., Sacco, K., Sakashita, F., Sánchez, A., Sarrat, K., Sasaki, K., Scholberg, J., Schwehr, M., Scott, D., Scully, Y., Seiya, T., Sekiguchi, H., Sekiya, M., Shibata, Y., Shimizu, M., Shiozawa, S., Short, M., Siyad, R., Smith, M., Smy, J., Sobczyk, H., Sobel, M., Sorel, A., Stahl, P., Stamouli, J., Steinmann, B., Still, J., Stone, C., Strabel, L., Sulak, R., Sulej, P., Sutcliffe, A., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, T., Szeglowski, M., Szeptycka, R., Tacik, M., Tada, S., Takahashi, A., Takeda, Y., Takenaga, Y., Takeuchi, K., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, N., Tanimoto, K., Tashiro, I., Taylor, A., Terashima, D., Terhorst, R., Terri, L., Thompson, A., Thorley, W., Toki, T., Tomaru, Y., Totsuka, C., Touramani, T., Tsukamoto, M., Tzanov, Y., Uchida, K., Ueno, A., Vacheret, M., Vagin, G., Vasseur, T., Wachala, J., Walding, A., Waldron, C., Walter, P., Wanderer, J., Wang, M., Ward, G., Ward, D., Wark, M., Wascko, A., Weber, R., Wendell, N., West, L., Whitehead, G., Wikström, R., Wilke, M., Wilking, J., Wilson, R., Wilson, T., Wongjirad, S., Yamada, Y., Yamada, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, Y., Yamanoi, H., Yamaoka, C., Yanagisawa, T., Yano, S., Yen, N., Yershov, M., Yokoyama, A., Zalewska, J., Zalipska, L., Zambelli, K., Zaremba, M., Ziembicki, E., Zimmerman, M., Zito, J., ??muda, and Walter, Christopher W
Subjects: Particle physics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, ddc:500.2, CHOOZ, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), neutrino, 14.60.Pq, 13.15.+g, 25.30.Pt, 95.55.Vj, 0103 physical sciences, neutrino oscillation, Muon neutrino, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, NOνA, Tribimaximal mixing, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, T2K experiment, Física, T2K Collaboration, particle identification, Electron neutrino, experimental results
Abstract: The T2K experiment observes indications of $\nu_\mu\rightarrow \nu_e$ appearance in data accumulated with $1.43\times10^{20}$ protons on target. Six events pass all selection criteria at the far detector. In a three-flavor neutrino oscillation scenario with $|\Delta m_{23}^2|=2.4\times10^{-3}$ eV$^2$, $\sin^2 2\theta_{23}=1$ and $\sin^2 2\theta_{13}=0$, the expected number of such events is 1.5$\pm$0.3(syst.). Under this hypothesis, the probability to observe six or more candidate events is 7$\times10^{-3}$, equivalent to 2.5$\sigma$ significance. At 90% C.L., the data are consistent with 0.03(0.04)$, Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, version published in PRL
Published: 2011

43. The T2K Experiment

Author: J. Ilic, Ferran Grañena, Biagio Rossi, Hiroyuki Sekiya, J. Zmuda, A. Suzuki, T. Szeglowski, Soo-Bong Kim, S. Dytman, Kendall Mahn, J. Bouchez, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Delagnes, E. Poplawska, Thorsten Lux, M. Messina, Sy Suzuki, M. Murdoch, V. Kasey, M. Gonin, S. Gomi, A. V. Waldron, P. A. Rodrigues, K. Suzuki, Y. Takeuchi, L. Escudero, Kenichi Tanaka, J. Dobson, R. Langstaff, P. Vincent, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. Kubota, P. Paul, S. Yen, T. Yano, S. M. Oser, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, Shinya Yamada, K. Briggs, Minoru Otani, J. Statter, Joshua Hignight, Yoshihiro Suzuki, D. Ruterbories, Y. Seiya, M. Khaleeq, A. Le Coguie, Achim Stahl, M. A. Ward, A. S. Tadepalli, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, J. Schwehr, Kimihiro Okumura, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J.P. Mols, M. Boyer, Jean-Charles Vanel, A. K. Ichikawa, S. Herlant, S. Roth, R. E. Minvielle, W. Toki, C. Yanagisawa, M. Goldhaber, M. Zito, P. Cooke, D. G. Brook-Roberge, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, Kieran P. Ramos, T. C. Nicholls, O. Araoka, Henry W. Sobel, M. Fitton, T. M. Raufer, J. Lagoda, I. Kreslo, J. Escallier, P. Mijakowski, M. M. Khabibullin, J. Blocki, Andrew Marone, K. Nishikawa, D. Morris, Joseph Muratore, J. Carroll, K. Abe, R. Sacco, A. Terashima, C. McGrew, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, Ioannis Giomataris, Gareth J. Barker, S. Murphy, C. Ohlmann, D. Richards, Y. Shimizu, W. Metcalf, C. K. Jung, J. L. Raaf, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Dabrowska, D. Allan, N. West, I. Kato, C. Andreopoulos, G. Nagashima, S. Horikawa, T. Lindner, P. Amaudruz, Y. Obayashi, C. Densham, T. Wongjirad, L. L. Kormos, D. Ross, A. Delbart, T. Ishida, T. Boussuge, M. A. George, Toru Ogitsu, Hiroyuki Kawamuko, M. J. Wilking, K. Mizouchi, S. Chollet, S. L. Cartwright, Takaaki Kajita, G. D. Lopez, Ping Lu, Dmitriy Beznosko, Julien Schmidt, F. Retiere, P. Kitching, M. Iwasaki, C. Bojechko, J. P. Coleman, K. Hamano, Kevin Connolly, J. Steinmann, Jan T. Sobczyk, I. Mercer, T. Tsukamoto, J. Kisiel, H. G. Berns, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. Taguchi, Viktor Matveev, V. Galymov, K. Laihem, A. Zalewska, J. Gaweda, Federico Sanchez, Hirokatsu Ohhata, Y. Fukuda, D. Autiero, Norio Higashi, K. Gilje, A. Gendotti, R. G. Calland, K. Mavrokoridis, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, A. Robert, M. Noy, E. Radicioni, A. Bodek, K. Nitta, Marek Stodulski, M. O. Wascko, E. Kearns, K. Zaremba, F. Nizery, D. Naples, B. A. Popov, J. Wendland, E. L. Mathie, B. Ellison, A. Izmaylov, M. Goyette, U. Dore, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, Atsushi Takeda, T. Maryon, J. Doornbos, M. Ieva, S. W. Sadler, R. Tacik, Alexander Finch, O. Ballester, M. Le Ross, D. L. Wark, M. Siyad, C. Matsumura, D. Payne, M. Y. Pac, Michael Roney, R. Flight, S. B. Boyd, G. Jover-Manas, A. Carver, M. Miura, T. Ozaki, T. Hasegawa, S. Mine, A. Debraine, P. Wanderer, J. J. Gomez-Cadenas, Yoshinari Hayato, T. Ishii, Kate Scholberg, M. Hartz, B. Kirby, K. Hayashi, J. L. Stone, S. Manly, J. Steffens, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, Nadeem A. Khan, P. Schaack, K. Koseki, K. Kaneyuki, S. Nakayama, Y. Kouzuma, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, J. P. Charrier, K. Kowalik, T. Okusawa, D. Warner, W. Faszer, T. Hara, A. Sarrat, S. Short, J. P. A. M. de André, N. C. Hastings, P. Plonski, A. D. Marino, S. W. K. Emery, C. J. Malafis, A. N. Khotjantsev, M. Barbi, B. Jamieson, M. M. Tanaka, N. Kimura, S. Y. Suzuki, I. Z. Danko, A. Bravar, T. Dealtry, C. Fisher, Y. Kurimoto, P. Guzowski, Y. Fujii, M. Szeptycka, R. Poutissou, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, W. Coleman, André Rubbia, G. Sheffer, T. Durkin, J. D. Perkin, C. Licciardi, Rituparna Das, D. Karlen, D. Smith, O. Star, K. Tashiro, J. Brinson, Koh Ueno, P. Sutcliffe, Hs Budd, I. Taylor, J. Myslik, J. F. van Schalkwyk, Katsuyu Kasami, P. Masliah, M. Vagins, V. Tvaskis, R. J. Wilkes, R. Openshaw, Michael Anerella, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, F. Bay, F. Di Lodovico, M. Tada, L. Bartoszek, Masato Shiozawa, A. C. Weber, N. Tanimoto, R. P. Litchfield, E. Frank, Marco Laveder, A. Ferrero, R. A. Johnson, Omar Veledar, T. Golan, J. Giraud, B. Morgan, T. Komorowski, A. Muir, Yasuo Ajima, T. McLachlan, D. A. Forbush, Akitaka Ariga, B. Andrieu, David Calvet, A. Blondel, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, S. Moriyama, Barry L. Nelson, Robert D. Preece, Kodai Matsuoka, M. Fechner, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, S. Assylbekov, P. F. Harrison, Fred Gannaway, M. B. Smy, Shigeki Aoki, R. Terri, Koji Yamamoto, J. Marzec, N. Braam, Frédéric Dufour, J. Holeczek, S. Giffin, T. D. J. Haycock, Michal Dziewiecki, M. Shibata, N. J. Buchanan, L. Monfregola, H. Nishino, G. P. Ward, I. T. Lim, N. Grant, P. Gumplinger, A. Hyndman, P. de Perio, Yoshikazu Yamada, A. Hatzikoutelis, N. Honkanen, L. Kellet, C. A. Miller, P. Birney, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, T. Kikawa, R. L. Helmer, A. Minamino, Carlos A. Chavez, O. Drapier, F. Moreau, R. Hasanen, E. Monmarthe, Y. Kurosawa, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, Oleg Mineev, D. I. Scully, C. Touramanis, X. De La Broise, Antonio Ereditato, A. Cazes, J. A. Nowak, M. Malek, N. Yershov, A. Cervera, M. Ziembicki, M. Dziomba, V. Palladino, C. Ishihara, Kevin Scott McFarland, V. Paolone, P. Poffenberger, J. Dumarchez, M. Gallop, T. Strauss, T. Maruyama, J. Zalipska, Yasuhiro Makida, L. Stawnyczy, T. Nakadaira, A. Yamamoto, G.D. Barr, P. Colas, Scott Davis, M. Rooney, J. Y. Kim, Eiichi Hirose, S. J. Ives, M. Posiadala, Takayuki Tomaru, C. Strabel, M. G. Catanesi, J. Spitz, V. Kravtsov, K. Wong, R. Sulej, C. Mark, Robert Wilson, Takahiro Okamura, J. Argyriades, A.K. Ghosh, E. Rondio, P. Dinh Tran, J. Beucher, N. McCauley, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, D. Terhorst, P. Stamoulis, A. Gaudin, W. Qian, C. J. Pearson, G. Kogan, J. Swierblewski, G. De Rosa, R. A. Owen, A. Badertscher, M. Macaire, Y. Takenaga, A. Konaka, J. Kameda, P. Przewlocki, Yusuke Koshio, B. E. Berger, Lester D.R. Thompson, F. Druillole, Ken Sakashita, M. Mezzetto, C. Angelsen, Antonin Vacheret, W. R. Kropp, M. Cadabeschi, J. F. Martin, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, H. Kakuno, R. Bradford, Leonid Kurchaninov, J. R. Wilson, K. Sasaki, M. Bryant, D. Pierrepont, A. Murakami, Yu. Kudenko, D. Bishop, S. Sooriyakumaran, M. Usseglio, Justin Albert, N. Kulkarni, N. Abgrall, S. Greenwood, C. Hearty, Suyong Choi, Alastair Grant, Richard J.H. Smith, G. Mituka, M. Thorpe, F. Pierre, Yutaka Yamanoi, Hiroshi Yamaoka, A. Marchionni, R. A. Wendell, Vincenzo Berardi, Ewart W. Blackmore, P. T. Le, T. Kobayashi, S. Di Luise, A. Curioni, Tomoko Ariga, P. Baron, J. L. Ritou, S. Koike, M. Lenckowski, G. Vasseur, B. Still, M. Pfleger, K. B. Fransham, Masashi Tanaka, C. Hansen, T. B. Lawson, K. Iyogi, E. D. Zimmerman, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, K. P. Lee, M. Day, Robert Henderson, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, Z. Williamson, M. Iida, H. Kaji, Katsuki Hiraide, K. Olchanski, M. Ravonel, Michel Raymond, G. Christodoulou, K. Nakamura, B. Hartfiel, Leigh H. Whitehead, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, T. Sekiguchi, Tatsushi Nakamoto, M. Besnier, G. Ganetis, Gavin Davies, L. Ludovici, C. Cavata, M. Sorel, S. Hastings, M. D. Haigh, C. W. Walter, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique pour la Physique (ex SEDI) (DEDIP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), T2K, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), K., Abe, N., Abgrall, H., Aihara, DE ROSA, Gianfranca, Palladino, Vittorio, Département d'Electronique, des Détecteurs et d'Informatique (ex SEDI) (DEDI), Abgrall, Nicolas, Argyriades, Jeremy, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Dufour, Fanny, Ferrero, Andréa, Haesler, Alexis, Korzenev, Alexander, Murphy, Sébastien, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, and Wikstrom, Gustav
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Sterile neutrino, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neutrino oscillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, ddc:500.2, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Long baseline, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Neutrinos, 010306 general physics, physics.ins-det, Instrumentation, QC, Physics, T2K, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, T2K experiment, J-PARC, Super-Kamiokande, Física, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Lepton
Abstract: The T2K experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. Its main goal is to measure the last unknown lepton sector mixing angle {\theta}_{13} by observing {\nu}_e appearance in a {\nu}_{\mu} beam. It also aims to make a precision measurement of the known oscillation parameters, {\Delta}m^{2}_{23} and sin^{2} 2{\theta}_{23}, via {\nu}_{\mu} disappearance studies. Other goals of the experiment include various neutrino cross section measurements and sterile neutrino searches. The experiment uses an intense proton beam generated by the J-PARC accelerator in Tokai, Japan, and is composed of a neutrino beamline, a near detector complex (ND280), and a far detector (Super-Kamiokande) located 295 km away from J-PARC. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the instrumentation aspect of the T2K experiment and a summary of the vital information for each subsystem., Comment: 33 pages, 32 figures, Submitted and accepted by NIM A. Editor: Prof. Chang Kee Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook, chang.jung@sunysb.edu, 631-632-8108 Submit Edited to remove line numbers
Published: 2011

44. Measurements of production properties ofKS0mesons andΛhyperons in proton-carbon interactions at 31 GeV/c

Author: V. I. Kolesnikov, A. Redij, T. Nakadaira, J. Pluta, T. Hasegawa, W. Peryt, A. Ivashkin, D. Kolev, K. Sakashita, M. Maćkowiak-Pawłowska, Sergey Kuleshov, William Brooks, H. Hakobyan, B. Maksiak, R. Tsenov, M. Savic, A. Wojtaszek, J. Blümer, A. Bravar, Alexander Malakhov, L. Zambelli, A. Blondel, N. G. Antoniou, Tivadar Kiss, N. Davis, R. Sipos, Antonio Ereditato, M. Nirkko, M. Unger, M.B. Golubeva, G. A. Feofilov, T. Sekiguchi, Z. Fodor, K. Dynowski, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, Antoni Aduszkiewicz, Ludwik Turko, M. Ravonel, O. Wyszyński, T. Tolyhi, Gyorgy Vesztergombi, A. Marchionni, M. Gazdzicki, S. Puławski, Y. Ali, Mrowczynski, B. A. Popov, T. Palczewski, Jan Kisiel, Leonid Vinogradov, A. Grzeszczuk, Alexey Kurepin, E. Rondio, M. Shibata, P. Christakoglou, T. Kobayashi, W. Rauch, Markus Roth, S. Di Luise, A. Sadovsky, P. Staszel, J. Argyriades, A. S. Kapoyannis, E. Skrzypczak, S. Murphy, A. Marcinek, M. Hierholzer, Stuart Kleinfelder, S. Debieux, N. Katrynska, O. Petukhov, D. Maletic, C. Pistillo, Z. Majka, V. V. Lyubushkin, H-J. Mathes, Katarzyna Grebieszkow, Apostolos Panagiotou, G. L. Melkumov, M. Vassiliou, Zbigniew Wlodarczyk, J. Puzović, A. Wilczek, M. Szuba, D. P. Kikola, André Rubbia, V. Tereshchenko, Viktor Matveev, A. Rustamov, Maciej Rybczyński, T. Antičić, K. Schmidt, O. Busygina, P. Seyboth, Darko Veberič, M. Słodkowski, Vincent Marin, J. Stepaniak, Kreso Kadija, M. Tada, M. Posiada la, T. Drozhzhova, Rainer Arno Ernst Renfordt, Alexey Krasnoperov, D. Kielczewska, Dieter Røhrich, J. Brzychczyk, Ralph Engel, Y. Ivanov, M. Kirejczyk, T. Susa, Fotis K. Diakonos, K. Nishikawa, K. Marton, Anne Robert, S.N. Igolkin, W. Dominik, T. Paul, A. Korzenev, H. Dembinski, V. P. Kondratiev, E. Kaptur, A. Haesler, Vladimir Vechernin, T. Matulewicz, S. Kowalski, Ágnes Fülöp, Andras Laszlo, G. Pálla, D. Joković, F.F. Guber, W. Zipper, D. T. Larsen, Tobiasz Czopowicz, D. Manić, N. Abgrall, J. Dumarchez, S.A. Bunyatov, M. Bogomilov, G. Stefanek, R. Płaneta, R. Idczak, B. Baatar, and Ralf Ulrich
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, Hadron, Hyperon, Strangeness production, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear interaction length, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation
Abstract: Spectra of KS0 mesons and Λ hyperons were measured in p + C interactions at 31 GeV/c with the large acceptance NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The data were collected with an isotropic graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Interaction cross sections, charged pion spectra, and charged kaon spectra were previously measured using the same data set. Results on KS0 and Λ production in p + C interactions serve as a reference for the understanding of the enhancement of strangeness production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Moreover, they provide important input for the improvement of neutrino flux predictions for the T2K long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. Inclusive production cross sections for KS0 and Λ are presented as a function of laboratory momentum in intervals of the laboratory polar angle covering the range from 0 up to 240 mrad. The results are compared with predictions of several hadron production models. The KS0 mean multiplicity in production processes 〈nKS0〉 and the inclusive cross section for KS0 production σKS0 were measured and amount to 0.127 ± 0.005 (stat) ± 0.022 (sys) and 29.0 ± 1.6 (stat) ± 5.0 (sys) mb, respectively. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Published: 2014

45. A Dark Matter Search with MALBEK

Author: J. Gruszko, V. Egorov, M. Shirchenko, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, John L. Orrell, Albert Young, V. Yumatov, N. Snyder, R. D. Martin, J. F. Wilkerson, W. Xu, R. G. H. Robertson, P. Finnerty, J. MacMullin, Y-D. Chan, B. R. White, Anne-Marie Suriano, Nicole R. Overman, G. K. Giovanetti, Keith Rielage, A. Galindo-Uribarri, A. W. P. Poon, D. Byram, J. Rager, H. Ejiri, Steven Elliott, E. Romero-Romero, D. C. Combs, Stanley M. Howard, V. V. Timkin, D. G. Phillips, M. F. Kidd, K. J. Snavely, B. Shanks, M. C. Ronquest, V. E. Guiseppe, James E. Fast, V. Brudanin, O.I. Kochetov, C. Cuesta, S. Vasilyev, Yuri Efremenko, A. S. Caldwell, F. M. Fraenkle, S. I. Konovalov, A. L. Hallin, J. A. Detwiler, N. Abgrall, Jeffrey K. Thompson, K. N. Gusev, A. Hegai, M. A. Howe, Tatsushi Shima, D. C. Radford, M. P. Green, K. Pushkin, M. Busch, Richard T. Kouzes, F. T. Avignone, Chang-Hong Yu, Kai Vetter, C. D. Christofferson, Ryuta Hazama, F. E. Bertrand, Eric W. Hoppe, Masaharu Nomachi, J. E. Trimble, K. J. Keeter, P. J. Doe, L. E. Leviner, Jonathan D. Leon, E. Aguayo, J. Goett, Susanne Mertens, E. Yakushev, R. L. Varner, S. MacMullin, Reyco Henning, C. Wiseman, Alexis G. Schubert, M. Boswell, S. J. Meijer, K. Vorren, J. C. Loach, Brian D. LaFerriere, A. S. Barabash, and Werner Tornow
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, majorana, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Physics and Astronomy(all), germanium detector, neutrinoless double beta decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Semiconductor detector, MAJORANA, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, Double beta decay, Weakly interacting massive particles, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Event (particle physics)
Abstract: The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an array of natural and enriched high purity germanium detectors that will search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge and perform a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses below 10 GeV. As part of the MAJORANA research and development efforts, we have deployed a modified, low-background broad energy germanium detector at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility. With its sub-keV energy threshold, this detector is sensitive to potential non-Standard Model physics, including interactions with WIMPs. We discuss the backgrounds present in the WIMP region of interest and explore the impact of slow surface event contamination when searching for a WIMP signal., Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013 (F. Avignone & W. Haxton, editors, Physics Procedia, Elsevier)
Published: 2014
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46. Status of the Majorana Demonstrator experiment

Author: W. Xu, Yu. Efremenko, O.I. Kochetov, E. Romero-Romero, Yuen-Dat Chan, Matthew Busch, Eric W. Hoppe, Werner Tornow, D. G. Phillips, K. J. Snavely, J. Goett, Kai Vetter, R. D. Martin, James E. Fast, V. B. Brudanin, Alexis G. Schubert, Ryuta Hazama, A. Galindo-Uribarri, K. Pushkin, A. Hegai, A. S. Caldwell, Jeffrey K. Thompson, R. G. H. Robertson, C.M. O'Shaughnessy, J. Esterline, J. Gruszko, M. P. Green, M. A. Howe, K. N. Gusev, H. Ejiri, L. E. Leviner, M. Shirchenko, John L. Orrell, S. Vasilyev, F. T. Avignone, Keith Rielage, Nicole R. Overman, S. MacMullin, N. Snyder, R. L. Varner, Vladimir Yumatov, Stanley M. Howard, A. R. Young, J. F. Wilkerson, V. G. Egorov, Reyco Henning, F. M. Fraenkle, A. L. Hallin, N. Abgrall, E. Aguayo, C. D. Christofferson, P. Finnerty, B. Shanks, Richard T. Kouzes, J. MacMullin, V. E. Guiseppe, S. R. Elliott, B. R. White, Susanne Mertens, Alan Poon, P. J. Doe, L. Mizouni, Anne-Marie Suriano, J. A. Detwiler, C.-H. Yu, V. V. Timkin, A. Soin, F. E. Bertrand, Tatsushi Shima, D. C. Combs, M. Boswell, Masaharu Nomachi, D. C. Radford, Jonathan D. Leon, K. J. Keeter, G. K. Giovanetti, J. C. Loach, Brian D. LaFerriere, K. Vorren, A. S. Barabash, E. Yakushev, M. C. Ronquest, S. I. Konovalov, and M. F. Kidd
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, MAJORANA, Particle physics, Double beta decay, Neutrino
Abstract: The Majorana Demonstrator neutrinoless double beta-decay experiment is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, USA. An overview and status of the experiment are given.
Published: 2014

47. Opportunistic infections and AIDS malignancies early after initiating combination antiretroviral therapy in high-income countries

Author: Lodi, S. Del Amo, J. Moreno, S. Bucher, H.C. Furrer, H. Logan, R. Sterne, J. Pérez-Hoyos, S. Jarrín, I. Phillips, A. Olson, A. Van Sighem, A. Reiss, P. Sabin, C. Jose, S. Justice, A. Goulet, J. Miró, J.M. Ferrer, E. Meyer, L. Seng, R. Vourli, G. Antoniadou, A. Dabis, F. Vandenhede, M.-A. Costagliola, D. Abgrall, S. Hernán, M.A. Hernan, M. Bansi, L. Hill, T. Sabin, C. Dunn, D. Porter, K. Glabay, A. Orkin, C. Thomas, R. Jones, K. Fisher, M. Perry, N. Pullin, A. Churchill, D. Gazzard, B. Nelson, M. Asboe, D. Bulbeck, S. Mandalia, S. Clarke, J. Delpech, V. Anderson, J. Munshi, S. Post, F. Easterbrook, P. Khan, Y. Patel, P. Karim, F. Duffell, S. Gilson, R. Man, S.-L. Williams, I. Gompels, M. Dooley, D. Schwenk, A. Ainsworth, J. Johnson, M. Youle, M. Lampe, F. Smith, C. Grabowska, H. Chaloner, C. Ismajani Puradiredja, D. Bansi, L. Hill, T. Phillips, A. Sabin, C. Walsh, J. Weber, J. Kemble, C. Mackie, N. Winston, A. Leen, C. Wilson, A. Bezemer, D.O. Gras, L.A.J. Kesselring, A.M. Van Sighem, A.I. Zaheri, S. Van Twillert, G. Kortmann, W. Branger, J. Prins, J.M. Kuijpers, T.W. Scherpbier, H.J. Van Der Meer, J.T.M. Wit, F.W.M.N. Godfried, M.H. Reiss, P. Van Der Poll, T. Nellen, F.J.B. Lange, J.M.A. Geerlings, S.E. Van Vugt, M. Pajkrt, D. Bos, J.C. Van Der Valk, M. Grijsen, M.L. Wiersinga, W.J. Brinkman, K. Blok, W.L. Frissen, P.H.J. Schouten, W.E.M. Van Den Berk, G.E.L. Veenstra, J. Lettinga, K.D. Mulder, J.W. Vrouenraets, S.M.E. Lauw, F.N. Van Eeden, A. Verhagen, D.W.M. Van Agtmael, M.A. Perenboom, R.M. Claessen, F.A.P. Bomers, M. Peters, E.J.G. Richter, C. Van Der Berg, J.P. Gisolf, E.H. Schippers, E.F. Van Nieuwkoop, C. Van Elzakker, E.P. Leyten, E.M.S. Gelinck, L.B.S. Pronk, M.J.H. Bravenboer, B. Kootstra, G.J. Delsing, C.E. Sprenger, H.G. Doedens, R. Scholvinck, E.H. Van Assen, S. Bierman, W.F.W. Soetekouw, R. Ten Kate, R.W. Van Vonderen, M.G.A. Van Houte, D.P.F. Kroon, F.P. Van Dissel, J.T. Arend, S.M. De Boer, M.G.J. Jolink, H. Ter Vollaard, H.J.M. 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Subjects: virus diseases
Abstract: Background: There is little information on the incidence of AIDS-defining events which have been reported in the literature to be associated with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) initiation. These events include tuberculosis, mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), herpes simplex virus (HSV), Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), cryptococcosis and candidiasis. Methods: We identified individuals in the HIV-CAUSAL Collaboration, which includes data from six European countries and the US, who were HIV-positive between 1996 and 2013, antiretroviral therapy naive, aged at least 18 years, hadCD4+ cell count and HIV-RNA measurements and had been AIDS-free for at least 1 month between those measurements and the start of follow-up. For each AIDS-defining event, we estimated the hazard ratio for no cART versus less than 3 and at least 3 months since cART initiation, adjusting for time-varying CD4+ cell count and HIV-RNA via inverse probability weighting. Results: Out of 96 562 eligible individuals (78% men) with median (interquantile range) follow-up of 31 [13,65] months, 55 144 initiated cART. The number of cases varied between 898 for tuberculosis and 113 for PML. Compared with non-cART initiation, the hazard ratio (95% confidence intervals) up to 3 months after cART initiation were 1.21 (0.90-1.63) for tuberculosis, 2.61 (1.05-6.49) for MAC, 1.17 (0.34-4.08) for CMV retinitis, 1.18 (0.62-2.26) for PML, 1.21 (0.83-1.75) for HSV, 1.18 (0.87-1.58) for Kaposi sarcoma, 1.56 (0.82-2.95) for NHL, 1.11 (0.56-2.18) for cryptococcosis and 0.77 (0.40-1.49) for candidiasis. Conclusion: With the potential exception of mycobacterial infections, unmasking IRIS does not appear to be a common complication of cART initiation in high-income countries. © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Published: 2014

48. Characterization of a high resolution triple Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector

Author: J.P. Richeux, A. Cervera, G. Jover, R. Schroeter, T. Lux, J. Alcaraz, F. Nova, Didier Ferrere, E. Radicioni, F. Masciocchi, A. Blondel, E. Perrin, A. Rodriguez, N. Abgrall, Federico Sanchez, and P. Bene
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Gas electron multiplier, MicroMegas detector, Electron, Neutrino, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, HARP
Abstract: The development of a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) readout as an option for the TPC of the near detector of the T2K neutrino experiment is presented. The low track density and the wide range in polar angle of particles produced by neutrino interactions drive the initial choice of relatively large squared pads (8 mm) for the performance study. The physics requirements [T2K ND280 Conceptual Design Report, http://dpnc.unige.ch:8080/nu/Members/nabgrall/t2kge/t2kge_doc/cdr.pdf ] are a momentum resolution better than 10 % at 1 GeV/c and a 3 σ dE/dx separation between muons and electrons. Micro-pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs) such as GEMs or Micromegas show several beneficial features compared to the traditional Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers. They have been tested in the HARP TPC environment at CERN. Preliminary results form the GEM tests are reported here.
Published: 2007

49. Publisher’s Note: T2K neutrino flux prediction [Phys. Rev. D87, 012001 (2013)]

Author: C. Bojechko, R. J. Wilson, R. Ohta, D. Ruterbories, M. Ieva, A. Himmel, R. Tacik, R. G. Calland, D. Gudin, C. Hearty, V. Galymov, A. Konaka, S. Short, W. H. Toki, A. K. Ichikawa, J. P. A. M. de André, P. Plonski, S. Roth, J. Kameda, E. S. Pinzon Guerra, Th. A. Mueller, Matthew T. Reeves, P. Mijakowski, T. Sekiguchi, J. Åmuda, B. E. Berger, D. Naples, P. Guzowski, K. Nishikawa, A. Hillairet, H. M. O'Keeffe, Kazuhiro Suzuki, C. W. Walter, E. Kearns, Masashi Yokoyama, E. Poplawska, M. Dziomba, H. Kakuno, L. Zambelli, Jan T. Sobczyk, K. Laihem, J. Caravaca Rodríguez, H.A. Tanaka, M. Ziembicki, J. Insler, E. Mazzucato, G. F. Pearce, K. Sakashita, S. M. Oser, M. Sorel, A. T. Suzuki, T. Tomura, P. Kitching, M. O. Wascko, M. Posiadala, M. G. Catanesi, Artur F. Izmaylov, M. Zito, K. Koseki, S. Mine, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, M. Murdoch, Y. Kanazawa, J. D. Perkin, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, J. F. Martin, D. Autiero, S. Nakayama, R. A. Wendell, S. Yen, P. de Perio, T. Yano, Yoshikazu Yamada, B. Kirby, M. M. Tanaka, T. Nakadaira, S. Emery, F. Di Lodovico, M. Tada, I. Kreslo, D. J. Payne, K. Kowalik, Richard J.H. Smith, Koji Nakamura, André Rubbia, M. D. Haigh, Vincenzo Berardi, Tomoko Ariga, A. N. Khotjantsev, Akitaka Ariga, Ko Okumura, M. Y. Pac, Y. Seiya, E. L. Mathie, Yu. G. Kudenko, N. C. Hastings, Jan Kisiel, L. Monfregola, S. Manly, A. Cervera, Shigeki Aoki, Hiroyuki Sekiya, T. Akiri, T. Hasegawa, M. Ravonel, F. Bay, A. Clifton, S. Kumaratunga, T. Szeglowski, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Giffin, Y. Fukuda, G. Vasseur, Ian Taylor, D. Cherdack, K. Nakajima, A. J. Finch, Kendall Mahn, P. Jonsson, L. Magaletti, C. Giganti, S. B. Boyd, M. M. Khabibullin, R. Sacco, Ke. Abe, E.D. Frank, R. A. Johnson, V. Matveev, T. Tsukamoto, G. Christodoulou, C. McGrew, M. J. Wilking, T. Ishida, O. Perevozchikov, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, P. Sinclair, B. Still, S. Moriyama, T. McLachlan, S. Murphy, T. Nakai, K. Mavrokoridis, D. R. Hadley, Masayuki Nakahata, B. Rossi, Masashi Tanaka, Jing Wang, E. Reinherz-Aronis, V. Paolone, Y. Uchida, M. Szeptycka, F. Retiere, V. Palladino, K. P. Lee, M. Day, A. Longhin, J. Marteau, C. Yanagisawa, Z. Williamson, E. Rondio, Michal Dziewiecki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, E. Scantamburlo, K. Iyogi, L. Southwell, J. Myslik, Y. Takeuchi, R.P. Kurjata, S. W. Bentham, N. McCauley, T. Kajita, Minoru Otani, T. Kikawa, M. Gonin, L. Escudero, M. Lawe, E. D. Zimmerman, I. Z. Danko, T. Golan, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, W. Oryszczak, S. A. Dytman, Koh Ueno, B. A. Popov, A. Curioni, Hiroaki Aihara, P. N. Ratoff, R. Terri, T. Kutter, K. Huang, C. Licciardi, R. Castillo, Yuichi Oyama, R. P. Litchfield, M. Friend, Yuki Fujii, Magdalena Malek, S. Di Luise, S. Assylbekov, B. Quilain, P. Stamoulis, E. Radicioni, S. J. Coleman, Marco Laveder, D. L. Wark, Kate Scholberg, P. Przewlocki, J. Steinmann, C. Touramanis, O. V. Mineev, A. Gaudin, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, T. Hara, A. D. Marino, A. Blondel, J. Dumarchez, A. C. Weber, C. Nielsen, G. Kogan, Takashi Kobayashi, M. Barbi, J. Schwehr, G. De Rosa, M. Messina, Y. Nishimura, H. Kaji, Lester D.R. Thompson, R. A. Owen, C. A. Miller, A. Minamino, N. Grant, M. R. Vagins, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, Scott Davis, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Macaire, D. Hansen, G. D. Lopez, Y. Shustrov, Justin Albert, N. Abgrall, C. Lister, M. Miura, S. J. Ives, T. Yuan, Jung-Hyun Kim, A. V. Waldron, T. Nagasaki, A. Zalewska, Federico Sanchez, A. Murakami, A. Bravar, C. Matsumura, I. T. Lim, J. Dobson, S. L. Cartwright, K. Connolly, Joshua Hignight, D. Terhorst, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Y. Totsuka, Susumu Takahashi, T. Wongjirad, T. Maruyama, M. Bass, J. H. Jo, F. Khanam, G.D. Barr, I. Karpikov, T. Ishii, D. Kielczewska, M. Batkiewicz, A. Dabrowska, M. Hartz, K. Ieki, D. Karlen, R. J. Wilkes, T. Lindner, Y. Obayashi, Janusz Marzec, M. A. M. Rayner, P. A. Rodrigues, T. Duboyski, Gareth J. Barker, Takahiro Hiraki, Dmitriy Beznosko, W. R. Kropp, James R. Wilson, S. Tobayama, J. P. Coleman, A. Laing, Kodai Matsuoka, G. Jover-Manas, S. Horikawa, T. Dealtry, A. Missert, J. Holeczek, K. Nakayoshi, N. Buchanan, R. L. Helmer, D. I. Scully, A. Thorley, A. Korzenev, Rhiju Das, B. Jamieson, C. J. Densham, K. Zaremba, D. G. Brook-Roberge, Atsushi Takeda, K. K. Joo, T. Wachala, T. Nicholls, B. C. Smith, Yusuke Koshio, M. Mezzetto, L. L. Kormos, C. Wilkinson, F. Dufour, Antonin Vacheret, K. S. McFarland, M. Tzanov, C. J. Metelko, R. Poutissou, P. Masliah, K. Gilje, A. Marchionni, S. B. Kim, J. Y. Kim, R. Sulej, Iain Alexander Bertram, J. Imber, M. Shibata, A. Hyndman, S. Berkman, C. K. Jung, M. Ikeda, Masato Shiozawa, L. Ludovici, A. Kilinski, A. Haesler, G. Wikström, S. Bhadra, S. Y. Suzuki, Luigi Salvatore Esposito, and J. Lagoda
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Monte Carlo method, Flux, Neutrino, Solar neutrino problem, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published: 2013

50. Energy dependence of identified hadron spectra and event-by-event fluctuations in p+p interactions from NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS

Author: N Abgrall, A Aduszkiewicz, Y Ali, T Anticic, N Antoniou, J Argyriades, B Baatar, A Blondel, J Blumer, M Bogomilov, A Bravar, W Brooks, J Brzychczyk, A Bubak, S A Bunyatov, O Busygina, P Christakoglou, T Czopowicz, N Davis, S Debieux, H Dembinski, F Diakonos, S Di Luise, W Dominik, T Drozhzhova, J Dumarchez, K Dynowski, R Engel, A Ereditato, L Esposito, G A Feofilov, Z Fodor, A Ferrero, A Fulop, M Gadzicki, M Golubeva, B Grabez, K Grebieszkow, A Grzeszczuk, F Guber, H Hakobyan, T Hasegawa, M Hierholzer, R Idczak, S Igolkin, Y Ivanov, A Ivashkin, D Jokovic, K Kadija, A Kapoyannis, N Katrynska, E Kaptur, D Kielczewska, D Kikola, M Kirejczyk, J Kisiel, T Kiss, S Kleinfelder, T Kobayashi, V I Kolesnikov, D Kolev, V P Kondratiev, A Korzenev, S Kowalski, A Krasnoperov, S Kuleshov, A Kurepin, D Larsen, A Laszlo, V V Lyubushkin, M Mackowiak-Pawlowska, Z Majka, B Maksiak, A I Malakhov, D Maletic, A Marchionni, A Marcinek, V Marin, K Marton, H.-J Mathes, T Matulewicz, V Matveev, G L Melkumov, St Mr��wczyski, S Murphy, T Nakadaira, M Nirkko, K Nishikawa, T Palczewski, G Palla, A D Panagiotou, T Paul, C Pistillo, A Redij, W Peryt, O Petukhov, R Planeta, J Pluta, B A Popov, M Posiadala, S Pu��awski, J Puzovic, W Rauch, M Ravonel, R Renfordt, A Robert, D R��hrich, E Rondio, M Roth, A Rubbia, A Rustamov, M Rybczynski, A Sadovsky, K Sakashita, M Savic, T Sekiguchi, P Seyboth, M Shibata, R Sipos, E Skrzypczak, M Slodkowski, P Staszel, G Stefanek, J Stepaniak, H Stroebele, T Susa, M Szuba, M Tada, V Tereshchenko, T Tolyhi, R Tsenov, L Turko, R Ulrich, M Unger, M Vassiliou, D Veberic, V V Vechernin, G Vesztergombi, L Vinogradov, A Wilczek, Z Wlodarczyk, A Wojtaszek, O Wyszyski, and L Zambelli
Published: 2013
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