Complete event-by-event alpha/gamma (beta) separation in a full-size TeO2 CUORE bolometer by Neganov-Luke-magnified light detection
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A90072%2F18%3A00344164" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:90072/18:00344164 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.032501" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.032501</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.032501" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevC.97.032501</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Complete event-by-event alpha/gamma (beta) separation in a full-size TeO2 CUORE bolometer by Neganov-Luke-magnified light detection
Original language description
In the present work, we describe the results obtained with a large (approximate to 133 cm(3)) TeO2 bolometer, with a view to a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 nu beta beta) of Te-130. We demonstrate an efficient alpha-particle discrimination (99.9%) with a high acceptance of the 0 nu beta beta signal (about 96%), expected at approximate to 2.5 MeV. This unprecedented result was possible thanks to the superior performance (10-eV rms baseline noise) of a Neganov-Luke-assisted germanium bolometer used to detect a tiny (70-eV) light signal from the TeO2 detector, dominated by gamma(beta)-induced Cherenkov radiation but exhibiting also a clear scintillation component. The obtained results represent a major breakthrough toward the TeO2-based version of the CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification (CUPID), a ton-scale cryogenic 0 nu beta beta experiment proposed as a followup to the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) project with particle identification. The CUORE experiment recently began a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te-130 with an array of 988 125-cm(3) TeO2 bolometers. The lack of alpha discrimination in CUORE makes alpha decays at the detector surface the dominant background component, at the level of approximate to 0.01 counts/(keV kg y) in the region of interest. We show here, for the first time with a CUORE-size bolometer and using the same technology as CUORE for the readout of both heat and light signals, that surface alpha background can be fully rejected.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10304 - Nuclear physics
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PHYSICAL REVIEW C
ISSN
2469-9985
e-ISSN
2469-9993
Volume of the periodical
97
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
0-4
UT code for WoS article
000427113500001
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