Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment
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Journal Article
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.
Date Issued
2017-07-06
Date Acceptance
2017-06-27
Citation
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2017, 868, pp.98-108
ISSN
0168-9002
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
98
End Page
108
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume
868
Copyright Statement
© 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/).
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Physical Sciences
Instruments & Instrumentation
Nuclear Science & Technology
Physics, Nuclear
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Calorimeter
Scintillators
Photomultipliers
Double beta decay
SuperNEMO
Publication Status
Published