AMoRE experiment: a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo isotope with 40Ca 100MoO4 cryogenic scintillation detector

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作者
Bhang, H. [1 ]
Boiko, R. S. [2 ]
Chernyak, D. M. [2 ]
Choi, J. H. [1 ]
Choi, S. [1 ]
Danevich, F. A. [2 ]
Efendiev, K. V. [3 ]
Enss, C. [4 ]
Fleischmann, A. [4 ]
Gangapshev, A. M. [3 ]
Gastaldo, L. [4 ]
Gezhaev, A. M. [3 ]
Hwang, Y. S. [6 ]
Jiang, H. [5 ]
Kang, W. G. [6 ]
Kazalov, V. V. [3 ]
Khanbekov, N. D. [7 ]
Kim, H. J.
Kim, K. B. [1 ]
Kim, S. K. [1 ]
Kim, S. C. [1 ]
Kim, Y. D. [6 ]
Kim, Y. H. [8 ]
Kobychev, V. V. [2 ]
Kornoukhov, V. N. [7 ]
Kuzminov, V. V. [3 ]
Mokina, V. M. [2 ]
Lee, H. S. [1 ]
Lee, J. I. [1 ]
Lee, J. M. [8 ]
Lee, K. B.
Lee, M. J. [1 ]
Lee, M. K. [8 ]
Lee, S. J. [1 ]
Li, J. [1 ]
Li, X. [1 ]
Myung, S. S. [1 ]
Nikolaiko, A. S. [2 ]
Olsen, S. [1 ]
Panasenko, S. I. [3 ]
Park, H. [8 ]
Poda, D. V. [2 ]
Podviyanuk, R. B.
Polischuk, O. G. [2 ]
Polozov, P. A. [7 ]
Ratkevich, S. S. [3 ]
Satou, Y. [1 ]
So, J. H. [5 ]
Tanida, K. [1 ]
Tretyak, V. I. [2 ]
机构
[1] Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[2] Inst Nucl Res, UA-03680 Kiev, Ukraine
[3] Baksan Neutrino Observ INR RAS, Neytrino, Kabardino Balka, Russia
[4] Kirchhoff Inst Phys Heidelberg Univ, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[5] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[6] Sejong Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 143747, South Korea
[7] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117218, Russia
[8] Korea Res Inst Stand & Sci, Daejon 305340, South Korea
[9] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 10084, Peoples R China
来源
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOPICS IN ASTROPARTICLE AND UNDERGROUND PHYSICS (TAUP 2011), PTS 1-6 | 2012年 / 375卷
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10.1088/1742-6596/375/1/042023
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
AMoRE (Advanced Mo based Rare process Experiment) collaboration is going to use calcium molybdate crystals as cryogenic scintillation detector in a search for neutrinoless DBD of Mo-100 isotope. Simultaneous detection of phonons and light will be used to reject internal background. A FWHM resolution of 0.2% in the phonon channel has been achieved with a 0.5 cm(3) crystal. Several (CaMoO4)-Ca-40-Mo-100 crystals (approximate to 0.5 kg) have been developed from enriched Mo-100 and depleted Ca-40 materials. The light yield of these crystals has been shown to be comparable with reference CaMoO4 scintillators for temperatures ranging down to 8 K. The content of dangerous radioisotopes in the crystals is under measurement. The projected sensitivity of the experiment for a 250 kg x years exposure is lim T-1/2 similar to 3 x 10(26) years, which corresponds to the effective Majorana neutrino mass < mv > similar to 0.02 - 0.06 eV.
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