Barabash, AS;
Basharina-Freshville, A;
Blot, S;
Bongrand, M;
Bourgeois, C;
Breton, D;
Brudanin, V;
... Tretyak, VI; + view all
(2017)
Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
, 868
pp. 98-108.
10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.044.
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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 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.044 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.044 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Calorimeter, Scintillators, Photomultipliers, Double beta decay, Super NEMO |
| 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567678 |
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