scholarly journals The nylon balloon for xenon loaded liquid scintillator in KamLAND-Zen 800 neutrinoless double-beta decay search experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (08) ◽  
pp. P08023
Author(s):  
Y. Gando ◽  
A. Gando ◽  
T. Hachiya ◽  
S. Hayashida ◽  
K. Hosokawa ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
S Obara ◽  
Y Gando ◽  
K Ishidoshiro

Abstract Environmental radioactivity is a dominant background for rare decay search experiments, and it is difficult to completely remove such an impurity from detector vessels. We propose a scintillation balloon as the active vessel of a liquid scintillator in order to identify this undesirable radioactivity. According to our feasibility studies, the scintillation balloon enables the bismuth–polonium sequential decay to be tagged with a 99.7% efficiency, assuming a KamLAND-type (KamLAND = Kamioka Liquid scintillator AntiNeutrino Detector) liquid scintillator detector. This tagging of sequential decay using alpha rays from the polonium improves the sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay while rejecting beta ray background from the bismuth.


2008 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 042088 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Barabanov ◽  
L Bezrukov ◽  
C Cattadori ◽  
N Danilov ◽  
A di Vacri ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Kim ◽  
S. Choi ◽  
F. A. Danevich ◽  
A. Fleischmann ◽  
C. S. Kang ◽  
...  

We report the development of a CaMoO4crystal low temperature detector for the AMoRE neutrinoless double beta decay(0νββ)search experiment. The prototype detector cell was composed of a 216 g CaMoO4crystal and a metallic magnetic calorimeter. An overground measurement demonstrated FWHM resolution of 6–11 keV for full absorption gamma peaks. Pulse shape discrimination was clearly demonstrated in the phonon signals, and 7.6 σof discrimination power was found for theαandβ/γseparation. The phonon signals showed rise-times of about 1 ms. It is expected that the relatively fast rise-time will increase the rejection efficiency of two-neutrino double beta decay pile-up events which can be one of the major background sources in0νββsearches.


2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 2251
Author(s):  
Akito Watanabe ◽  
Arisa Magi ◽  
Masanori Koshimizu ◽  
Atsushi Sato ◽  
Yutaka Fujimoto ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (34n35) ◽  
pp. 2044013
Author(s):  
J. Caravaca

SNO+ is a multi-purpose experiment whose main goal is to study the nature of the neutrino mass through the observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay. Detection of this rare process would indicate that neutrinos are elementary Majorana particles, proving that lepton number is not conserved. The SNO+ detector will operate in three distinct phases with different target materials: water, pure liquid scintillator and tellurium-loaded liquid scintillator. During the water phase, the external backgrounds were confirmed to be within expectation, new limits on specific channels of invisible nucleon decay modes were set and the Boron-8 solar neutrino flux was measured and confirmed to be compatible with previous measurements. With a completed water phase, SNO+ is moving towards its main Tellurium-loaded phase. Here, we report the status of the experiment, the recent results and the potential of SNO+ for neutrinoless double-beta decay search.


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