| Seminar Date: | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Sycamore |
| Abstract: | The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota. The experiment will deploy an array of ~30kg of point contact germanium detectors, enriched in 76Ge to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. One of the main goals of the experiments is to demonstrate a design with unprecedentedly low levels of backgrounds that is suitable to build a tonne scale experiment. This talk will give an overview and status of the experiment, as well as future prospects. |
| Speaker: | Ryan Martin - University of South Dakota
 Ph D, Physics, Queen's University, 2009
MS, Physics, Queen's University, 2006
BS, Physics, Queen's University, 2003
Research Interests:
Neutrino physics, dark matter physics, underground physics.
Member of the Majorana Collaboration.
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