Nuclear regulators, front line officers, and technical support professionals from 24 countries shared their experiences using High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors to maintain and strengthen nuclear ...

In 2014, the Majorana Demonstrator started its search for neutrinoless double beta decay. Observation of this decay would have profound implications for our understanding of physics, including ...

Researchers work on the delicate wiring of a cryostat, which chills the germanium detectors at the heart of the Majorana Demonstrator experiment. (Sanford Underground Research Facility Photo / Matthew ...

Scientists have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity. This accomplishment is critical to developing and proposing a much ...

A new p-type germanium radiation detector could be the first to measure "soft neutrino-nucleus scattering", a mechanism that was originally predicted 30 years ago. Neutrinos are elusive particles that ...

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a proof-of-concept experiment. The researchers constructed an ultrasensitive 44-kilogram germanium radiation detector to seek the extremely rare nuclear process. Like a ...

Physicists thought they had built the detector to rule them all. A mile underground in a former South Dakota gold mine, the Large Underground Xenon detector was the latest, greatest attempt to find ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 26, 2018-- If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other upon meeting, and today's ...