A new method for background rejection with surface sensitive bolometers

Authors :: Claudia Nones
C. Salvioni
L. Foggetta
Samuele Sangiorgio
A. Giuliani
M. Pedretti
Source :: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 559:355-357
Publication Year :: 2006
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2006.
Abstract: We report the performance of three prototype TeO2 macrobolometers, able to identify events due to energy deposited at the detector surface. This capability is obtained by thermally coupling thin active layers to the main absorber of the bolometer, and is proved by irradiating the detectors with alpha particles. This technique can be very useful in view of background study and reduction for the CUORE experiment, a next generation Double Beta Decay search based on TeO2 macrobolometers and to be installed in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.

Subjects :: Coupling
Physics
Surface (mathematics)
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
business.industry
Bolometer
Detector
Alpha particle
Cryogenics
law.invention
Nuclear physics
CUORE
Optics
law
Double beta decay
business
Instrumentation

ISSN :: 01689002
Volume :: 559
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........9ca004764f4db3da064b49f90fe00694

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