Speaker
Frank Avignone
(University of South Carolina)
Description
We start with the early applications of Ge detectors for fundamental physics by the group of Ettore Fiorini’s search for double-beta decay of Ge-76. This was followed by the early work of the Battelle-Carolina Collaboration, IGEX, then MAJORANA. Werecognize parallel efforts by the Heidelberg group, andspecial background reduction by GERDA and LEGEND using their liquid Ar emersion technique. The main discussion will be of recently developed alternative methods of reprocessing the scrap Ge from detector fabrication.
Primary author
Frank Avignone
(University of South Carolina)
Co-author
Kevin Wilson
(University of South Carolina, USA)
