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Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment

NázevTitle
Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experimentCalorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment
Druh výsledkuResult type
Článek v časopiseJournal article
AutořiAuthors
A. S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, S. Blot, M. Bongrand, L. Fajt, R. Hodák, M. Macko, F. Mamedov, P. Přidal, E. Rukhadze, A. Smetana, K. Smolek, M. Špavorová, I. Štekl
DOIDOI
10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.044
Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2017, 868 98-108. ISSN 0168-9002.
RokYear
2017
JazykLanguage
eng
WoSWoS
000408406700015
ScopusScopus
2-s2.0-85023642276
RIVRIV
RIV/68407700:21340/17:00318696!RIV18-MSM-21340___
ProjektProject
Podzemní laboratoř LSM (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, Francie) - český příspěvek do výzkumné infrastruktury evropského významuUnderground laboratory LSM (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, Francie) - Czech contribution to research infrastructure of European level

AbstraktAbstract

SuperNEMO is a double-beta decay experiment, which will employ the successful tracker-calorimeter technique used in the recently completed NEMO-3 experiment. SuperNEMO will implement 100 kg of double-beta decay cisotope, reaching a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 nu beta beta) half-life of the order of 10(26) yr, corresponding to a Majorana neutrino mass of 50-100 meV. One of the main goals and challenges of the SuperNEMO detector development programme has been to reach a calorimeter energy resolution, Delta E/E, around 3%/root E(MeV) sigma, or 7%/root E(MeV) FWHM (full width at half maximum), using a calorimeter composed of large volume plastic scintillator blocks coupled to photomultiplier tubes. We describe the R&D programme and the final design of the SuperNEMO calorimeter that has met this challenging goal. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

SuperNEMO is a double-beta decay experiment, which will employ the successful tracker-calorimeter technique used in the recently completed NEMO-3 experiment. SuperNEMO will implement 100 kg of double-beta decay cisotope, reaching a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 nu beta beta) half-life of the order of 10(26) yr, corresponding to a Majorana neutrino mass of 50-100 meV. One of the main goals and challenges of the SuperNEMO detector development programme has been to reach a calorimeter energy resolution, Delta E/E, around 3%/root E(MeV) sigma, or 7%/root E(MeV) FWHM (full width at half maximum), using a calorimeter composed of large volume plastic scintillator blocks coupled to photomultiplier tubes. We describe the R&D programme and the final design of the SuperNEMO calorimeter that has met this challenging goal. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.