Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5486796 | Astroparticle Physics | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We developed a cryogenic phonon-scintillation detector to search for 0νββ decay of 100Mo. The detector module, a proto-type setup of the AMoRE experiment, has a scintillating 40Ca100MoO4 absorber composed of 100Mo-enriched and 48Ca-depleted elements. This new detection method employs metallic magnetic calorimeters (MMCs) as the sensor technology for simultaneous detection of heat and light signals. It is designed to have high energy and timing resolutions to increase sensitivity to probe the rare event. The detector, which is composed of a 200 g 40Ca100MoO4 crystal and phonon/photon sensors, showed an energy resolution of 8.7 keV FWHM at 2.6 MeV, with a weak temperature dependence in the range of 10-40 mK. Using rise-time and mean-time parameters and light/heat ratios, the proposed method showed a strong capability of rejecting alpha-induced events from electron events with as good as 20Ï separation. Moreover, we discussed how the signal rise-time improves the rejection efficiency for random coincidence signals.
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Authors
G.B. Kim, J.H. Choi, H.S. Jo, C.S. Kang, H.L. Kim, I. Kim, S.R. Kim, Y.H. Kim, C. Lee, H.J. Lee, M.K. Lee, J. Li, S.Y. Oh, J.H. So,