Spectral modeling of scintillator for the NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO detectors

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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Spectral modeling of scintillator for the NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO detectors

J. S. Ricol J. S. Ricol Yoichi Tamagawa Karol Holý G. Luzón X. Garrido A. S. Barabash Y. Lemière Ts. Vylov B. Richards J. J. Horkley X. Sarazin A. Chapon J. Argyriades Ph. Hubert Ph. Hubert S. Cebrián Vl.i. Tretyak F. Mauger A. Nachab A. Nachab A. ŽUkauskas J. J. Evans Juergen Thomas O.i. Kochetov Luis M. Serra J. K. Sedgbeer A. J. Caffrey D. Lalanne S. Jullian S. Söldner-rembold G. Szklarz F. Mamedov V.b. Brudanin T. Dafni Ch. Marquet Ch. Marquet M. Bongrand I. Nasteva C. H. Nguyen C. H. Nguyen Ruben Saakyan N. Yahlali R. Arnold L. Simard I. G. Irastorza V. E. Kovalenko V. E. Kovalenko C. Hugon F. Monrabal R. L. Flack C.s. Sutton Guillaume Lutter Guillaume Lutter N. Fatemi-ghomi D. Waters G. Broudin-bay R. Vasiliev K. Lang L. Vála Yorihito Sugaya F. Nova H. Ohsumi S. I. Konovalov E. Chauveau E. Chauveau Pavel P. Povinec A.a. Smolnikov Dominique Durand M. Kauer R. B. Pahlka Robert Thompson I. Vanyushin Z. Daraktchieva J. S. Díaz P. Novella V.i. Tretyak J. Martín-albo C. L. Riddle Nobuhiro Ishihara V. I. Umatov C. M. Jackson B. Guillon C. Augier A. Basharina-freshville A Rodríguez F. Piquemal F. Piquemal V. V. Timkin Ken-ichi Fushimi Fedor ŠImkovic Igor Nemchenok Hector Gomez J. Baker Yu. Shitov Yu. Shitov S. Kanamaru F.j. Iguaz F. Perrot F. Perrot V. Egorov A. Holin I. Stekl Vit Vorobel

subject

Nuclear and High Energy Physics Photomultiplier Technology Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Photon Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors CODE FOS: Physical sciences Scintillator 01 natural sciences High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics Particles & Fields Nuclear physics High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)Photomultiplier 0202 Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle And Plasma Physics Double beta decay 0103 physical sciences [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]Calibration Plastic scintillators [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]010306 general physics Nuclear Science & Technology Instrumentation Instruments & Instrumentation Scintillation physics.ins-det Physics Scintillation Science & Technology 010308 nuclear & particles physics hep-ex Physics MO-100 Detector Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)Double beta decay Nuclear & Particles Physics Calorimeter Physics Nuclear Physical Sciences GEANT 4 DOUBLE-BETA DECAY Optical photon transport

description

We have constructed a GEANT4-based detailed software model of photon transport in plastic scintillator blocks and have used it to study the NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO calorimeters employed in experiments designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay. We compare our simulations to measurements using conversion electrons from a calibration source of $\rm ^{207}Bi$ and show that the agreement is improved if wavelength-dependent properties of the calorimeter are taken into account. In this article, we briefly describe our modeling approach and results of our studies.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2010-04-21

10.1016/j.nima.2010.09.027 http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55264