PERFORMANCE OF A PROTOTYPE TRACKING DETECTOR FOR DOUBLE-BETA DECAY MEASUREMENTS

Authors
ARNOLD R BARABASH A BLUM D BRUDANIN V CAMPAGNE JE DANEVICH F DASSIE D EGOROV V ESCHBACH R GUYONNET JL HUBERT F HUBERT P ISAAC MC IZAC C JULLIAN S KOCHETOV O KORNOUKOV VN KOUTS V KOVALENKO V LALANNE D LAMHAMDI T LAPLANCHE F LECCIA F LEPIKHIN Y LINCK I LONGUEMARE C MAUGER F MENNRATH P NATCHEZ F HICHOLSON HW NOZDRIN A PICHENOT G PIQUEMAL F SCHEIBLING F SUTTON CS SZKLARZ G TRETYAK VI UMATOV V VANUSHIN I VASSILYEV Y VAREILLE A VYLOV T ZAPAROV S ZDESENKO Y
Citation
R. Arnold et al., PERFORMANCE OF A PROTOTYPE TRACKING DETECTOR FOR DOUBLE-BETA DECAY MEASUREMENTS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 354(2-3), 1995, pp. 338-351
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
354
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
338 - 351
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)354:2-3<338:POAPTD>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
To investigate double beta decay processes, the NEMO collaboration beg an a long-range research and development program in 1988. The NEMO 2 d etector, which is now running in the Frejus underground laboratory (L. S.M. Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane), is the second prototype. It co nsists of a 1 m(2) source foil sandwiched between Geiger cell drift ch ambers for electron tracking and two plastic scintillator walls for en ergy and time-of-flight measurements. The technical description of the detector is followed by the study of the various sources of backgroun d.