Cascella, M;
Chopra, A;
Dawson, L;
(2017)
Construction and commissioning of the tracker module for the SuperNEMO experiment.
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(Proceedings) Neutrino 2016.
(pp. 012249).
IOP Publishing
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Abstract
The SuperNEMO experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in the Modane Underground Laboratory. This decay mode, if observed, confirms that neutrinos are Majorana fermions. It would be a new lepton violating process, and would provide a measurement of the absolute neutrino mass. The SuperNEMO experiment is designed to reach a half-life sensitivity of 1026 years corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass of 50−100 meV. The SuperNEMO demonstrator module is the first stage of the experiment, containing 7kg of 82Se, with an expected sensitivity of T½ (0ν) > 6.5×1024 y after 2.5 years. Full topological event reconstruction is achieved through the use of a wire tracker operating in Geiger mode combined with scintillator calorimeter modules. Construction of the demonstrator module is well underway. We present the design of the tracker, and the current status of the construction and commissioning efforts.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Construction and commissioning of the tracker module for the SuperNEMO experiment |
| Event: | Neutrino 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012249 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012249 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10036694 |
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