18–20 Mar 2015
US/Pacific timezone

Development of low radioactivity 40Ca100MoO4 crystal scintillators for the AMORE double beta decay search

19 Mar 2015, 09:30
20m
Presentation Invited Session 4

Speaker

Prof. HongJoo Kim (Kyungpook National University)

Description

The AMoRE (Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment) collaboration will perform a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo-100 using a cryogenic technique with Mo-100 enriched and Ca-48 depleted calcium molybdate (CaMoO4) crystal scintillators at the deep underground laboratory in Korea. CaMoO4 crystals show brightest scintillation light among variety of molybdate crystals at room and cryogenic temperature. Techniques to reduce internal background of CaMoO4 crystals and low radioactivity measurements at room and milli-Kelvin temperatures as well as expected various background levels using GEANT4 simulation will be presented.

Primary author

Prof. HongJoo Kim (Kyungpook National University)

Presentation materials