التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Mitigation of backgrounds from cosmogenic 137Xe in xenon gas experiments using 3He neutron capture. |
| المؤلفون: |
Rogers, L, Jones, B J P, Laing, A, Pingulkar, S, Smithers, B, 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 |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear & Particle Physics; Jul2020, Vol. 47 Issue 7, p1-17, 17p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
NEUTRON capture, MUONS, BETA decay, THERMAL neutrons, XENON, NEUTRINOLESS double beta decay, COSMIC ray muons |
| مستخلص: |
136Xe is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for 0νββ. 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 137Xe created by the capture of neutrons on 136Xe. This isotope decays via beta decay with a half-life of 3.8 min and a Qβ of ∼4.16 MeV. This work proposes and explores the concept of adding a small percentage of 3He 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 137Xe 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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