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Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment
PIQUEMAL, F.
Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG]
Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane [LSM]
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Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG]
Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane [LSM]
Language
en
Article de revue
This item was published in
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2017, vol. 868, p. 98-108
Elsevier
English Abstract
SuperNEMO is a double- β 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- β decay isotope, reaching ...Read more >
SuperNEMO is a double- β 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- β decay isotope, reaching a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double- β decay ( 0νββ ) half-life of the order of 1026 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, ΔE∕E , around 3%∕E(MeV) σ , or 7%∕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.Read less <
English Keywords
Calorimeter
Scintillators
Photomultipliers
Double beta decay
SuperNEMO
activity report
calorimeter: design
energy resolution
neutrino: Majorana: mass
Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory
scintillation counter: plastics
photomultiplier
sensitivity
Origin
Hal imported