Final Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

ORAL

Abstract

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a low background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) in 76Ge and other rare events originating from physics beyond the standard model. The DEMONSTRATOR consisted of an array of high purity germanium detectors using three different p-type point-contact geometries (PPC, ICPC and BEGe), housed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. Thanks to its ultra-low background materials, world-leading energy resolution, and pulse-shape analysis background rejection techniques, the experiment achieved one of the lowest background indices to date for a 0νββ search. The experiment finished taking data with enriched detectors in March 2021 and, with 64.5 kg-yr of enriched exposure, produced a final half-life limit of T1/2>8.3×1025 yr. This talk will present the final half-life limit, other recent results, and ongoing analysis efforts for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR.

*This material is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, the Particle Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Programs of the National Science Foundation, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Presenters

  • Ian Guinn

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Authors

  • Ian Guinn

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill