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Mitigation of Backgrounds from Cosmogenic $^{137}$Xe in Xenon Gas Experiments using $^{3}$He Neutron Capture

Authors :
Rogers, L.
Jones, B. J. P.
Laing, A.
Pingulkar, S.
Woodruff, K.
Adams, C.
Álvarez, V.
Arazi, L.
Arnquist, I. J.
Azevedo, C. D. R
Bailey, K.
Ballester, F.
Benlloch-Rodríguez, J. M.
Borges, F. I. G. M.
Byrnes, N.
Cárcel, S.
Carrión, J. V.
Cebrián, S.
Church, E.
Conde, C. A. N.
Contreras, T.
Díaz, G.
Díaz, J.
Diesburg, M.
Dingler, R.
Escada, J.
Esteve, R.
Felkai, R.
Fernandes, A. F. M.
Fernandes, L. M. P.
Ferrario, P.
Ferreira, A. L.
Freitas, E. D. C.
Generowicz, J.
Ghosh, S.
Goldschmidt, A.
Gómez-Cadenas, J. J.
González-Díaz, D.
Guenette, R.
Gutiérrez, R. M.
Haefner, J.
Hafidi, K.
Hauptman, J.
Henriques, C. A. O.
Morata, J. A. Hernando
Herrero, P.
Herrero, V.
Ifergan, Y.
Johnston, S.
Kekic, M.
Labarga, L.
Lebrun, P.
López-March, N.
Losada, M.
Mano, R. D. P.
Martín-Albo, J.
Martínez, A.
Martínez-Lema, G.
McDonald, A. D.
Monrabal, F.
Monteiro, C. M. B.
Mora, F. J.
Vidal, J. Muñoz
Novella, P.
Nygren, D. R.
Palmeiro, B.
Para, A.
Pérez, J.
Querol, M.
Redwine, A. B.
Renner, J.
Repond, J.
Riordan, S.
Ripoll, L.
García, Y. Rodríguez
Rodríguez, J.
Romeo, B.
Romo-Luque, C.
Santos, F. P.
Santos, J. M. F. dos
Simón, A.
Sofka, C.
Sorel, M.
Stiegler, T.
Toledo, J. F.
Torrent, J.
Usón, A.
Veloso, J. F. C. A.
Webb, R.
Weiss-Babai, R.
White, J. T.
Yahlali, N.
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

\Xe{136} is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for \bbnonu. Despite underground operation, cosmic muons that reach the laboratory can produce spallation neutrons causing activation of detector materials. A potential background that is difficult to veto using muon tagging comes in the form of \Xe{137} created by the capture of neutrons on \Xe{136}. This isotope decays via beta decay with a half-life of 3.8 minutes and a \Qb\ of $\sim$4.16 MeV. This work proposes and explores the concept of adding a small percentage of \He{3} to xenon as a means to capture thermal neutrons and reduce the number of activations in the detector volume. When using this technique we find the contamination from \Xe{137} activation can be reduced to negligible levels in tonne and multi-tonne scale high pressure gas xenon neutrinoless double beta decay experiments running at any depth in an underground laboratory.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2001.11147
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/ab8915