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NEXT双β衰变实验能量读数的放射性安全性评估

Radiopurity assessment of the energy readout for the NEXT double beta decay experiment

S. Cebrián, J. Pérez, I. Bandac, L. Labarga, V. Álvarez, C. D. R. Azevedo, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, F. I. G. M. Borges, A. Botas, S. Cárcel, J. V. Carrión, C. … 展开作者

S. Cebrián, J. Pérez, I. Bandac, L. Labarga, V. Álvarez, C. D. R. Azevedo, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, F. I. G. M. Borges, A. Botas, S. Cárcel, J. V. Carrión, C. A. N. Conde, J. Díaz, M. Diesburg, J. Escada, R. Esteve, R. Felkai, L. M. P. Fernandes, P. Ferrario, A. L. Ferreira, E. D. C. Freitas, A. Goldschmidt, J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, D. González-Díaz, R. M. Gutiérrez, J. Hauptman, C. A. O. Henriques, A. I. Hernandez, J. A. Hernando Morata, V. Herrero, B. J. P. Jones, A. Laing, P. Lebrun, I. Liubarsky, N. López-March, M. Losada, J. Martín-Albo, G. Martínez-Lema, A. Martínez, A. D. McDonald, F. Monrabal, C. M. B. Monteiro, F. J. Mora, L. M. Moutinho, J. Muñoz Vidal, M. Musti, M. Nebot-Guinot, P. Novella, D. R. Nygren, B. Palmeiro, A. Para, M. Querol, J. Renner, L. Ripoll, o J. Rodríguez, L. Rogers, F. P. Santos, J. M. F. dos Santos, A. Simón, C. Sofka, M. Sorel, T. Stiegler, p J. F. Toledo, J. Torrent, Z. Tsamalaidze, J. F. C. A. Veloso, J. A. Villar, R. Webb, J. T. White, N. Yahlali

摘要:

使用氙时间投影室的中微子实验(NEXT)旨在研究136氘的无中微子双β衰变,因此需要严格抑制潜在背景。进行了广泛的材料筛选和选择过程,以量化实验中使用的材料的放射性。使用不同的传感器分离能量和跟踪读出平面使我们能够将用于背景辨别的事件的拓扑特征的测量与能量分辨率优化相结合。与气体检测器介质直接接触的放射纯读出平面的设计尤其具有挑战性,因为所需的组件通常具有对于要求超低背景条件的实验而言太大的活性。在研究了跟踪平面之后,这里介绍了能量平面的放射性纯度控制,主要是基于伽马射线光谱学,使用西班牙Canfranc Subterráneo公司的超低背景锗探测器。选定型号的光电倍增管的所有可用单元以及底座、外壳和窗口的大部分组件都已筛选。根据有关放射性同位素活度的这些结果,能量平面的选定成分对感兴趣区域的总背景水平的贡献最多为2.4 x 10-4计数keV-1 kg-1 y-1,满足NEXT实验的灵敏度要求。

英文摘要:

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon Time-Projection Chamber (NEXT) experiment intends to investigate the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe, and therefore requires a severe suppression of potential backgrounds. An extensive material screening and selection process was undertaken to quantify the radioactivity of the materials used in the experiment. Separate energy and tracking readout planes using different sensors allow us to combine the measurement of the topological signature of the event for background discrimination with the energy resolution optimization. The design of radiopure readout planes, in direct contact with the gas detector medium, was especially challenging since the required components typically have activities too large for experiments demanding ultra-low background conditions. After studying the tracking plane, here the radiopurity control of the energy plane is presented, mainly based on gamma-ray spectroscopy using ultra-low background germanium detectors at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (Spain). All the available units of the selected model of photomultiplier have been screened together with most of the components for the bases, enclosures and windows. According to these results for the activity of the relevant radioisotopes, the selected components of the energy plane would give a contribution to the overall background level in the region of interest of at most 2.4 x 10-4 counts keV-1 kg-1 y-1, satisfying the sensitivity requirements of the NEXT experiment.

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