Conveners
Session 11: Background Modeling and Measurements (continued)
- Carla Maria Cattadori (INFN)
Grzegorz Zuzel
(Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
20/03/2015, 15:40
Contributed
Presentation
Borexino, located at the Gran Sasso Laboratory, is a liquid scintillator detector with active mass of 278 tons. The main goal of the experiment is the real-time registration of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through their elastic scattering on the electrons. The lack of directionality of the light emitted by the scintillator makes it impossible to distinguish neutrino-scattered electrons from...
Dr
Laura Segui
(University of Oxford)
20/03/2015, 16:00
Contributed
Presentation
SNO+ is a large multi-purpose liquid scintillator experiment, which first aim is to detect the neutrinoless double beta decay of Te-130. It is placed at SNOLAB, at 6000 m.w.e. and it is based on the SNO infrastructure. SNO+ will contain approximately 780 tonnes of liquid scintillator, loaded with Te-130 inside an acrylic vessel (AV) with an external volume of ultra pure water to reduce the...
Dr
Bela Majorovits
(MPI für Physik)
20/03/2015, 16:20
Contributed
Presentation
The GERDA experiment for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay has finished its first phase
of data taking in 2013. A very low background level of ~0.01 Counts/(kg yr keV) corresponding to
~40 Counts/(t yr RoI) has been achieved around Q_bb. Competitive limits on neutrinoless double
beta decay of 76Ge have been given.
The experiment will be described. Special emphasis will be given...
Dr
Kyohei Nakajima
(Osaka University)
20/03/2015, 16:40
Contributed
Presentation
CANDLES is a double beta decay experiment using 48Ca in CaF2 crystals. Thanks to the highest Q value among all isotope candidates (4.27 MeV), we can measure signals in small background contribution. A remarkable distinction in the measurement is the active veto by liquid scintillator. Because the time constant is largely different in pulse shape between CaF2 and liquid scintillator, large...
