Experimental monitoring for the Majorana Demonstrator
ORAL
Abstract
The \textsc{Majorana Demonstrator} neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay experiment has instrumented two modules of high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors to search for 0$\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{76}$Ge. The experiment has started accumulating quality data towards its goal of demonstrating the technical feasibility and low backgrounds for a next generation Ge-based 0$\nu\beta\beta$ experiment. It is critical to extensively monitor the performance of the experimental apparatus without disturbing the blindness data-taking scheme. The experimental monitoring is composed of several stages including, for example, the live monitoring embedded in the Data-Acquisition system, onsite near-live monitoring and data production monitoring. In all stages, automatic alerting mechanisms and scheduled manual checks are implemented in a coordinated way. In this talk, we will discuss the internal management of each experimental monitoring stage and their relationships to each other.
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Authors
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Wenqin Xu
University of South Dakota