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Possible background reductions in double beta decay experiments

Nuclear Experiment 2010-12-09 v1

Abstract

The background induced by radioactive impurities of 208Tl^{208}\rm Tl and 214Bi^{214}\rm Bi in the source of the double beta experiment NEMO-3 has been investigated. New methods of data analysis which decrease the background from the above mentioned contamination are identified. The techniques can also be applied to other double beta decay experiments capable of measuring independently the energies of the two electrons.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0302022,
  title  = {Possible background reductions in double beta decay experiments},
  author = {R. Arnold and C. Augier and J. Baker and A. Barabash and O. Bing and V. Brudanin and A. J. Caffrey and E. Caurier and K. Errahmane and A. -I. Etienvre and J. L. Guyonnet and F. Hubert and Ph. Hubert and C. Jollet and S. Jullian and O. Kochetov and V. Kovalenko and D. Lalanne and F. Leccia and C. Longuemare and Ch. Marquet and F. Mauger and H. W. Nicholson and H. Ohsumi and F. Piquemal and J-L. Reyss and X. Sarazin and Yu. Shitov and L. Simard and I. Stekl and J. Suhonen and C. S. Sutton and G. Szklarz and V. Timkin and V. Tretyak and V. Umatov and L. Vala and I. Vanyushin and V. Vasilyev and V. Vorobel and Ts. Vylov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0302022},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

15 pages, 13 figures, accepted in the Nuclear Instruments and Methods A