Solar neutrino interactions with liquid scintillators used for double beta decay experiments
Instrumentation and Detectors
2016-03-23 v1
Abstract
Solar neutrinos interact with double beta decay detectors (DBD) and hence will contribute to backgrounds (BG) for DBD experiments. Background contributions due to solar neutrinos are evaluated for their interactions with atomic electrons and nuclei in liquid scintillation detectors used for DBD experiments. They are shown to be serious backgrounds for high sensitivity DBD experiments to search for the Majorana neutrino masses in the inverted and normal hierarchy regions.
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@article{arxiv.1602.00364,
title = {Solar neutrino interactions with liquid scintillators used for double beta decay experiments},
author = {Hiroyasu Ejiri and Kai Zuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00364},
year = {2016}
}