Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment
Abstract
SuperNEMO is a double- 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- decay isotope, reaching a sensitivity to the neutrinoless double- decay () half-life of the order of 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, E/E, around 3%/(MeV) , or 7%/(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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@article{arxiv.1707.06823,
title = {Calorimeter development for the SuperNEMO double beta decay experiment},
author = {A. S. Barabash and A. Basharina-Freshville and S. Blot and M. Bongrand and Ch. Bourgeois and D. Breton and V. Brudanin and H. Burešovà and J. Busto and A. J. Caffrey and S. Calvez and M. Cascella and C. Cerna and J. P. Cesar and E. Chauveau and A. Chopra and G. Claverie and S. De Capua and F. Delalee and D. Duchesneau and V. Egorov and G. Eurin and J. J. Evans and L. Fajt and D. Filosofov and R. Flack and X. Garrido and H. Gómez and B. Guillon and P. Guzowski and R. Hodák and K. Holý and A. Huber and C. Hugon and A. Jeremie and S. Jullian and M. Kauer and A. Klimenko and O. Kochetov and S. I. Konovalov and V. Kovalenko and K. Lang and Y. Lemière and T. Le Noblet and Z. Liptak and X. R. Liu and P. Loaiza and G. Lutter and J. Maalmi and M. Macko and F. Mamedov and C. Marquet and F. Mauger and I. Moreau and B. Morgan and J. Mott and I. Nemchenok and M. Nomachi and F. Nova and H. Ohsumi and R. B. Pahlka and J. R. Pater and F. Perrot and F. Piquemal and P. Povinec and P. Přidal and Y. A. Ramachers and A. Rebii and A. Remoto and B. Richards and J. S. Ricol and C. L. Riddle and E. Rukhadze and R. Saakyan and R. Salazar and X. Sarazin and J. Sedgbeer and Yu. Shitov and F. Šimkovic and L. Simard and A. Smetana and K. Smolek and A. Smolnikov and S. Snow and S. Söldner-Rembold and B. Soulé and M. Špavorová and I. Štekl and J. Thomas and V. Timkin and S. Torre and Vl. I. Tretyak and V. I. Tretyak and V. I. Umatov and C. Vilela and V. Vorobel and D. Waters and A. Žukauskas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06823},
year = {2017}
}