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锗双β衰变实验的本底降低和灵敏度

Background reduction and sensitivity for germanium double beta decay experiments

H. Gómez, S. Cebrián, J. Morales, J. A. Villar

摘要:

锗探测器在研究像无中微子双β衰变这样的罕见现象方面有很好的能力。在这类实验中,抑制与预期信号纠缠的背景是一个主要目标。在这里,可达到的背景减少的能量区域中的中微子双β衰变信号的76 Ge预计出现已被评估的实验中使用锗探测器,考虑到不同的策略,如探测器系统的粒度,每个单独的锗探测器的分割和脉冲形状分析技术的应用,以区分信号从背景事件。信号的检测效率受背景抑制技术的影响,因此,它已被估计为每个背景抑制的情况下考虑。最后,晶体质量,放射性纯度,暴露于宇宙射线,屏蔽和排斥能力的条件进行了讨论,目的是实现10-3 c keV-1 kg-1 y-1的背景水平在感兴趣的区域,这将允许探索中微子有效质量约40 meV。

英文摘要:

Germanium detectors have very good capabilities for the investigation of rare phenomena like the neutrinoless double beta decay. Rejection of the background entangling the expected signal is one primary goal in this kind of experiments. Here, the attainable background reduction in the energy region where the neutrinoless double beta decay signal of 76Ge is expected to appear has been evaluated for experiments using germanium detectors, taking into consideration different strategies like the granularity of the detector system, the segmentation of each individual germanium detector and the application of Pulse Shape Analysis techniques to discriminate signal from background events. Detection efficiency to the signal is affected by background rejection techniques, and therefore it has been estimated for each of the background rejection scenarios considered. Finally, conditions regarding crystal mass, radiopurity, exposure to cosmic rays, shielding and rejection capabilities are discussed with the aim to achieve a background level of 10-3 c keV-1 kg-1 y-1 in the region of interest, which would allow to explore neutrino effective masses around 40 meV.

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