Astroparticle Physics with a Customized Low-Background Broad Energy Germanium Detector
Creators: name: MAJORANA Collaboration
name: Aalseth, C. E.
name: Amman, M.
name: Avignone, F. T.
name: Back, H. O.
name: Barabash, A. S.
name: Barbeau, P. S.
name: Bergevin, M.
name: Bertrand, F. E.
name: Boswell, M.
name: Brudanin, V.
name: Bugg, W.
name: Burritt, T. H.
name: Busch, M.
name: Capps, G.
name: Chan, Y-D.
name: Collar, J. I.
name: Cooper, R. J.
name: Creswick, R.
name: Detwiler, J. A.
name: Diaz, J.
name: Doe, P. J.
name: Efremenko, Yu.
name: Egorov, V.
name: Ejiri, H.
name: Elliott, S. R.
name: Ely, J.
name: Esterline, J.
name: Farach, H.
name: Fast, J. E.
name: Fields, N.
name: Finnerty, P.
name: Fujikawa, B.
name: Fuller, E.
name: Gehman, V. M.
name: Giovanetti, G. K.
name: Guiseppe, V. E.
name: Gusey, K.
name: Hallin, A. L.
name: Harper, G. C
name: Hazama, R.
name: Henning, R.
name: Hime, A.
name: Hoppe, E. W.
name: Hossbach, T. W.
name: Howe, M. A.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Keeter, K. J.
name: Keillor, M.
name: Keller, C.
name: Kephart, J. D.
name: Kidd, M. F.
name: Knecht, A.
name: Kochetov, O.
name: Konovalov, S. I.
name: Kouzes, R. T.
name: Leviner, L.
name: Loach, J. C.
name: Luke, P. N.
name: MacMullin, S.
name: Marino, M. G.
name: Martin, R. D.
name: Mei, D. -M.
name: Miley, H. S.
name: Miller, M. L.
name: Mizouni, L.
name: Meyers, A. W.
name: Nomachi, M.
name: Orrell, J. L.
name: Peterson, D.
name: Phillips, D. G.
name: Poon, A. W. P.
name: Prior, G.
name: Qian, J.
name: Radford, D. C.
name: Rielage, K.
name: Robertson, R. G. H.
name: Rodriguez, L.
name: Rykaczewski, K. P.
name: Salazar, H.
name: Schubert, A. G.
name: Shima, T.
name: Shirchenko, M.
name: Steele, D.
name: Strain, J.
name: Swift, G.
name: Thomas, K.
name: Timkin, V.
name: Tornow, W.
name: Van Wechel, T. D.
name: Vanyushin, I.
name: Varner, R. L.
name: Vetter, K.
name: Wilkerson, J. F.
name: Wolfe, B. A.
name: Xiang, W.
name: Yakushev, E.
name: Yaver, H.
name: Young, A. R.
name: Yu, C. -H.
name: Yumatov, V.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Zimmerman, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MAJORANA Collaboration is building the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, a 60 kg array of high purity germanium detectors housed in an ultra-low background shield at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, SD. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge while demonstrating the feasibility of a tonne-scale experiment. It may also carry out a dark matter search in the 1-10 GeV/c^2 mass range. We have found that customized Broad Energy Germanium (BEGe) detectors produced by Canberra have several desirable features for a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment, including low electronic noise, excellent pulse shape analysis capabilities, and simple fabrication. We have deployed a customized BEGe, the MAJORANA Low-Background BEGe at Kimballton (MALBEK), in a low-background cryostat and shield at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility in Virginia. This paper will focus on the detector characteristics and measurements that can be performed with such a radiation detector in a low-background environment.
description: Submitted to NIMA Proceedings, SORMA XII. 9 pages, 4 figures