| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5492759 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2017 | 21 Pages |
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, ÎEâE, around 3%âE(MeV)Ï, or 7%âE(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.
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Authors
A.S. Barabash, A. Basharina-Freshville, S. Blot, M. Bongrand, Ch. Bourgeois, D. Breton, V. Brudanin, H. Burešovà , J. Busto, A.J. Caffrey, S. Calvez, M. Cascella, C. Cerna, J.P. Cesar, E. Chauveau, A. Chopra, G. Claverie, S. De Capua, A. Žukauskas,