| Title: |
Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment |
| Authors: |
Barabash, AS; Basharina-Freshville, A; Blot, S; Bongrand, M; Bourgeois, C; Breton, D; Brudanin, V; Burešovà, H; Busto, J; Caffrey, AJ; Calvez, S; Cascella, M; Cerna, C; Cesar, JP; Chauveau, E; Chopra, A; Claverie, G; De Capua, S; Delalee, F; Duchesneau, D; Egorov, V; Eurin, G; Evans, JJ; Fajt, L; Filosofov, D; Flack, R; Garrido, X; Gómez, H; Guillon, B; Guzowski, P; Hodák, R; Holý, K; Huber, A; Hugon, C; Jeremie, A; Jullian, S; Kauer, M; Klimenko, A; Kochetov, O; Konovalov, SI; Kovalenko, V; Lang, K; Lemière, Y; Le Noblet, T; Liptak, Z; Liu, XR; Loaiza, P; Lutter, G; Maalmi, J; Macko, M; Mamedov, F; Marquet, C; Mauger, F; Moreau, I; Morgan, B; Mott, J; Nemchenok, I; Nomachi, M; Nova, F; Ohsumi, H; Pahlka, RB; Pater, JR; Perrot, F; Piquemal, F; Povinec, P; Přidal, P; Ramachers, YA; Rebii, A; Remoto, A; Richards, B; Ricol, JS; Riddle, CL; Rukhadze, E; Saakyan, R; Salazar, R; Sarazin, X; Sedgbeer, J; Shitov, Y; Šimkovic, F; Simard, L; Smetana, A; Smolek, K; Smolnikov, A; Snow, S; Söldner-Rembold, S; Soulé, B; Špavorová, M; Štekl, I; Thomas, J; Timkin, V; Torre, S; Tretyak, VI |
| Source: |
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment , 868 pp. 98-108. (2017) |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
University College London: UCL Discovery |
| Subject Terms: |
Calorimeter; Scintillators; Photomultipliers; Double beta decay; Super NEMO |
| Description: |
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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567678/ |
| Availability: |
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567678/1/Cascella_1-s2.0-S0168900217306976-main.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567678/ |
| Rights: |
open |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B69EB83 |
| Database: |
BASE |