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Theory for the direct detection of solar axions by coherent Primakoff conversion in germanium detectors by Creswick, R.J., Avignone III, F.T., Farach, H.A., Collar, J.I., Gattone, A.O., Nussinov, S., Zioutas, K.

“…It is assumed that axion-like Nambu Goldstone bosons exist and are created in the sun by Primakoff conversion of photons in the Coulomb fields of nuclei…”
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Scintillation properties and radioactive contamination of CaWO4 crystal scintillators by Zdesenko, Yu.G., Avignone III, F.T., Brudanin, V.B., Danevich, F.A., Nagorny, S.S., Solsky, I.M., Tretyak, V.I.

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Experimental Search for Solar Axions via Coherent Primakoff Conversion in a Germanium Spectrometer by Avignone, F. T., Abriola, D., Brodzinski, R. L., Collar, J. I., Creswick, R. J., DiGregorio, D. E., Farach, H. A., Gattone, A. O., Guérard, C. K., Hasenbalg, F., Huck, H., Miley, H. S., Morales, A., Morales, J., Nussinov, S., Ortiz de Solórzano, A., Reeves, J. H., Villar, J. A., Zioutas, K.

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Enriched TeO2 bolometers with active particle discrimination: Towards the CUPID experiment by Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Beeman, J.W., Dafinei, I., Dumoulin, L., Ge, Z., Giuliani, A., Gotti, C., de Marcillac, P., Marnieros, S., Nagorny, S., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Novati, V., Olivieri, E., Orlandi, D., Pagnanini, L., Pattavina, L., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Poda, D.V., Rusconi, C., Schäffner, K., Scielzo, N.D., Zhu, Y.

“…We present the performances of two 92% enriched 130TeO2 crystals operated as thermal bolometers in view of a next generation experiment to search for…”
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The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Experiment by Shanks, B., Shima, T., Shirchenko, M. V., Snavely, K. J., Snyder, N., Thompson, J., Steele, D., Strain, J., Suriano, A. M., Timkin, V., Tornow, W., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B. R., Wilkerson, J. F., Williams, T., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Young, A. R., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V., Abgrall, N., Aguayo, E., Avignone, F. T., Barabash, A. S., Bertrand, F. E., Boswell, M., Brudanin, V. B., Busch, M., Caldwell, A. S., Chan, Y.-D., Christofferson, C. D., Combs, D. C., Detwiler, J. A., Doe, P. J., Efremenko, Yu, Egorov, V. G., Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Esterline, J., Fast, J. E., Finnerty, P., Fraenkle, F. M., Galindo-Uribarri, A., Giovanetti, G. K., Goett, J., Green, M. P., Gruszko, J., Guiseppe, V. E., Gusev, K., Hallin, A. L., Hazama, R., Hegai, A., Howe, M. A., Henning, R., Hoppe, E. W., Howard, S., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Knecht, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S. I., Kouzes, R. T., LaFerriere, B. D., Leon, J., Leviner, L. E., Loach, J. C., Luke, P. N., MacMullin, S., Martin, R. D., Mertens, S., O'Shaughnessy, C., Mizouni, L., Nomachi, M., Orrell, J. L., Overman, N. R., Phillips, David, Poon, A. W. P., Pushkin, K., Radford, D. C., Rielage, K., Robertson, R. G. H., Ronquest, M. C., Schubert, A. G.

“…The Majorana Demonstrator will search for the neutrinoless double-beta (ββ0ν) decay of the isotope Ge with a mixed array of enriched and natural germanium…”
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The processing of enriched germanium for the Majorana Demonstrator and R&D for a next generation double-beta decay experiment by Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Bertrand, F.E., Bradley, A.W., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caja, J., Caja, M., Caldwell, T.S., Christofferson, C.D., Chu, P.-H., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J.A., Dunagan, C., Dunstan, D.T., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S.R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G.K., Goett, J., Green, M.P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I.S., Guiseppe, V.E., Haufe, C.R.S., Henning, R., Hoppe, E.W., Jasinski, B.R., Kidd, M.F., Konovalov, S.I., Kouzes, R.T., Lopez, A.M., MacMullin, J., Martin, R.D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S.J., Mertens, S., Meyer, J.H., Myslik, J., O’Shaughnessy, C., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D.C., Rager, J., Reine, A.L., Reising, J.A., Rielage, K., Robertson, R.G.H., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A.M., Tedeschi, D., Toth, L.M., Trimble, J.E., Varner, R.L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B.R., Wilkerson, J.F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V., Zhitnikov, I., Zhu, B.X.

“…The Majorana Demonstrator is an array of point-contact Ge detectors fabricated from Ge isotopically enriched to 88% in 76Ge to search for neutrinoless double…”
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The Majorana Demonstrator calibration system by Abgrall, N., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Bertrand, F.E., Boswell, M., Bradley, A.W., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T.S., Christofferson, C.D., Chu, P.-H., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J.A., Dunagan, C., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S.R., Fu, Z., Gehman, V.M., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G.K., Goett, J., Green, M.P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I.S., Guiseppe, V.E., Haufe, C.R., Henning, R., Hoppe, E.W., Howe, M.A., Jasinski, B.R., Keeter, K.J., Kidd, M.F., Konovalov, S.I., Kouzes, R.T., Lopez, A.M., MacMullin, J., Martin, R.D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S.J., Mertens, S., Orrell, J.L., O’Shaughnessy, C., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D.C., Rager, J., Reine, A.L., Rielage, K., Robertson, R.G.H., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Suriano, A.M., Tedeschi, D., Trimble, J.E., Varner, R.L., Vasilyev, S., Vetter, K., Vorren, K., White, B.R., Wilkerson, J.F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V., Zhitnikov, I., Zhu, B.X.

“…The Majorana Collaboration is searching for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of the nucleus 76Ge. The Majorana Demonstrator is an array of germanium…”
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Validation of techniques to mitigate copper surface contamination in CUORE by Alessandria, F., Ardito, R., Artusa, D.R., Avignone III, F.T., Azzolini, O., Balata, M., Banks, T.I., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Bloxham, T., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Canonica, L., Capelli, S., Carbone, L., Carrettoni, M., Casali, N., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Cosmelli, C., Dally, A., Datskov, V., De Biasi, A., Deninno, M.M., di Vacri, M.L., Faccini, R., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Goett, J., Goodsell, A., Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Huang, H.Z., Kadel, R., Kazkaz, K., Keppel, G., Lenz, D., Li, Y.L., Ligi, C., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Newman, S., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., Orio, F., Orlandi, D., Ouellet, J.L., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Rampazzo, V., Reil, R., Rimondi, F., Rusconi, C., Sangiorgio, S., Scielzo, N.D., Smith, A.R., Sparks, L., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Vignati, M., Whitten Jr, C.A., Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zarra, C., Zhu, B.X., Zucchelli, S.

“…In this article we describe the background challenges for the CUORE experiment posed by surface contamination of inert detector materials such as copper, and…”
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The Majorana 76Ge double-beta decay project by Avignone, F.T.

“…The MAJORANA Project is a research and development activity set up to establish the feasibility and cost of a double-beta decay experiment comprising a one-ton…”
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CUORE: a cryogenic underground observatory for rare events by Arnaboldi, C, Avignone III, F.T, Beeman, J, Barucci, M, Balata, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cebrian, S, Creswick, R.J, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cremonesi, O, de Ward, A, Fiorini, E, Farach, H.A, Frossati, G, Giuliani, A, Giugni, D, Gorla, P, Haller, E.E, Irastorza, I.G, McDonald, R.J, Morales, A, Norman, E.B, Negri, P, Nucciotti, A, Pedretti, M, Pobes, C, Palmieri, V, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Smith, A.R, Sisti, M, Ventura, G, Vanzini, M, Zanotti, L

“…CUORE is a proposed tightly packed array of 1000 TeO 2 bolometers, each being a cube 5 cm on a side with a mass of 760 g . The array consists of 25 vertical…”
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Muon-induced backgrounds in the CUORICINO experiment by Andreotti, E., Arnaboldi, C., Avignone, F.T., Balata, M., Bandac, I., Barucci, M., Beeman, J.W., Bellini, F., Bloxham, T., Brofferio, C., Bryant, A., Bucci, C., Canonica, L., Capelli, S., Carbone, L., Carrettoni, M., Clemenza, M., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Di Domizio, S., Dolinski, M.J., Ejzak, L., Faccini, R., Farach, H.A., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Foggetta, L., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Guardincerri, E., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Kadel, R., Kazkaz, K., Kraft, S., Kogler, L., Kolomensky, Yu.G., Maiano, C., Maruyama, R.H., Martinez, C., Martinez, M., Mizouni, L., Morganti, S., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., Orio, F., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Previtali, E., Risegari, L., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Salvioni, C., Sangiorgio, S., Schaeffer, D., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Tomei, C., Ventura, G., Vignati, M.

“…To better understand the contribution of cosmic ray muons to the CUORICINO background, 10 plastic scintillator detectors were installed at the CUORICINO site…”
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Search for β/EC double beta decay of Te by Andreotti, E., Arnaboldi, C., Avignone Iii, F.T., Balata, M., Bandac, I., Barucci, M., Beeman, J.W., Bellini, F., Brofferio, C., Bryant, A., Bucci, C., Canonica, L., Capelli, S., Carbone, L., Carrettoni, M., Clemenza, M., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Di Domizio, S., Dolinski, M.J., Ejzak, L., Faccini, R., Farach, H.A., Ferri, E., Fiorini, E., Foggetta, L., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Guardincerri, E., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Kazkaz, K., Kraft, S., Kogler, L., Maiano, C., Maruyama, R.H., Martinez, C., Martinez, M., Newman, S., Nisi, S., Nones, C., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., Orio, F., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, L., Pavan, M., Pedretti, M., Pessina, G., Pirro, S., Previtali, E., Risegari, L., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Salvioni, C., Sangiorgio, S., Schaeffer, D., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Tomei, C., Ventura, G., Vignati, M.

“…We present a search for β/EC double beta decay of Te performed with the CUORICINO experiment, an array of TeO cryogenic bolometers. After collecting 0.0573 kg…”
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Results of CUORE-0 and prospects for the CUORE experiment by Canonica, L., Artusa, D.R., Avignone, F.T., Bari, G., Beeman, J., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Cai, X.Z., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Cao, X.G., Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Cosmelli, C., Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R.J., Cushman, J.S., Dafinei, I., Dally, A., Dell'Oro, S., Deninno, M.M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M.L., Drobizhev, A., Ejzak, L., Fang, D.Q., Farach, H.A., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M.A., Freedman, S.J., Fujikawa, B.K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gorla, P., Gutierrez, T.D., Haller, E.E., Han, K., Hansen, E., Heeger, K.M., Hickerson, K.P., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu.G., Li, Y.L., Lim, K.E., Liu, X., Ma, Y.G., Maiano, C., Maino, M., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R.H., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Napolitano, T., Nisi, S., Norman, E.B., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T., Orio, F., Ouellet, J.L., Pagliarone, C.E., Pallavicini, M., Pattavina, L., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Pira, C., Pirro, S., Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Santone, D., Scielzo, N.D., Sisti, M., Smith, A.R., Tenconi, M., Tian, W.D., Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Ventura, G., Wang, B.S., Wang, H.W., Wilson, J., Winslow, L.A., Wise, T., Zarra, C., Zhang, G.Q.

“…The CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) experiment is an array of 741 kg of TeO2 bolometers to search for neutrinoless double beta decay…”
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Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR by Myslik, Jordan, Alvis, S.I., Arnquist, I.J., Avignone III, F.T., Barabash, A.S., Barton, C.J., Bertrand, F.E., Bode, T., Bos, B., Brudanin, V., Busch, M., Buuck, M., Caldwell, T.S., Chan, Y-D., Christofferson, C.D., Chu, P.-H., Cuesta, C., Detwiler, J.A., Dunagan, C., Efremenko, Yu, Ejiri, H., Elliott, S. R., Gilliss, T., Giovanetti, G.K., Green, M.P., Gruszko, J., Guinn, I.S., Guiseppe, V.E., Haufe, C.R., Hegedus, R.J., Hehn, L., Henning, R., Hervas Aguilar, D., Hoppe, E.W., Howe, M.A., Keeter, K. J., Kidd, M. F., Konovalov, S.I., Kouzes, R.T., Lopez, A. M., Martin, R.D., Massarczyk, R., Meijer, S.J., Mertens, S., Othman, G., Pettus, W., Piliounis, A., Poon, A.W.P., Radford, D. C., Rager, J., Reine, A. L., Rielage, K., Ruof, N.W., Shanks, B., Shirchenko, M., Tedeschi, D., Varner, R. L., Vasilyev, S., Vasundhara, White, B.R., Wilkerson, J.F., Wiseman, C., Xu, W., Yakushev, E., Yu, C.-H., Yumatov, V., Zhitnikov, I., Zhu, B. X.

“…The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an experiment constructed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$Ge and to demonstrate the feasibility to deploy a…”
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Particle dark matter and solar axion searches with a small germanium detector at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory by Morales, A., Avignone III, F.T., Brodzinski, R.L., Cebrián, S., Garcı́a, E., González, D., Irastorza, I.G., Miley, H.S., Morales, J., de Solórzano, A.Ortiz, Puimedón, J., Reeves, J.H., Sarsa, M.L., Scopel, S., Villar, J.A.

“…A small, natural abundance, germanium detector (COSME) has been operating recently at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spanish Pyrenees) in improved…”
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Physics potential and prospects for the CUORICINO and CUORE experiments by Arnaboldi, C, Avignone, F.T, Beeman, J, Barucci, M, Balata, M, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Cebrian, S, Creswick, R.J, Capelli, S, Carbone, L, Cremonesi, O, de Ward, A, Fiorini, E, Farach, H.A, Frossati, G, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Haller, E.E, Irastorza, I.G, McDonald, R.J, Morales, A, Norman, E.B, Nucciotti, A, Pedretti, M, Pobes, C, Palmieri, V, Pavan, M, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Previtali, E, Rosenfeld, C, Scopel, S, Smith, A.R, Sisti, M, Ventura, G, Vanzini, M

“…The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment projects to construct and operate an array of 1000 cryogenic thermal detectors of TeO…”
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A decommissioned LHC model magnet as an axion telescope by Zioutas, K., Aalseth, C.E., Abriola, D., III, F.T.Avignone, Brodzinski, R.L., Collar, J.I., Creswick, R., Gregorio, D.E.Di, Farach, H., Gattone, A.O., Guérard, C.K., Hasenbalg, F., Hasinoff, M., Huck, H., Liolios, A., Miley, H.S., Morales, A., Morales, J., Nikas, D., Nussinov, S., Ortiz, A., Savvidis, E., Scopel, S., Sievers, P., Villar, J.A., Walckiers, L.

“…The 8.4 T, 10 m long transverse magnetic field of a twin aperture LHC bending magnet can be utilized as a macroscopic coherent solar axion-to-photon converter…”
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Astroparticle physics with a customized low-background broad energy Germanium detector by Aalseth, C. E., Amman, M., Avignone, F.T. III, Back, H.O., Barabash, A.S., Barbeau, P.S., Bergevin, M., Burritt, Busch, M., Capps, Gregory L, Chan, Y-D, Bertrand Jr, Fred E, Boswell, Brudanin, V., Bugg, W., Collar, J.I., Cooper, Reynold J, Creswick, R., Detwiler, J.A., Diaz, J., Doe, P. J., Efremenko, Yuri, Egorov, V., Ejiri, H., Ely, J., Elliott, Scott, Esterline, J., Farach, H., Fast, J.E., Fields, N., Finnerty, Fujikawa, B., Fuller, E., Gehman, Victor M, Giovanetti, G. K., Guiseppe, V.E., Gusey, K., Hallin, A.L., Harper, George R, Hazama, R., Henning, Reyco, Hime, A., Hoppe, E.W., Hossbach, Todd W., Howe, M. A., Johnson, R. A., Keeter, K.J., Keillor, M., Keller, C., Kephart, J.D., Kidd, Mary F, Knecht, A., Kochetov, O., Konovalov, S.I., Kouzes, R., Leviner, L., Martin, R.D., Loach, J.C., Luke, P.N., Macmullin, S., Marino, M. G., Mei, D-M, Miley, H.S., Miller, M. L., Mizouni, L., Meyers, Alexander W, Nomachi, M., Orrell, John L., Peterson, Don, Phillips, D. G., Poon, A.W.P., Prior, G., Qian, J., Radford, David C, et al

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Internal-source method of measuring absolute pair-production cross sections by Avignone III, F.T.

“…The history, detailed description and results obtained using a unique but simple method of measuring absolute pair-production cross sections is reviewed. These…”
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Scintillation properties and radioactive contamination of CaWO 4 crystal scintillators by Zdesenko, Yu.G., Avignone III, F.T., Brudanin, V.B., Danevich, F.A., Nagorny, S.S., Solsky, I.M., Tretyak, V.I.

“…Energy resolution, α / β ratio and the pulse-shape discrimination ability of the CaWO 4 crystal scintillators were studied. The radioactive contamination and…”
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