Paper The following article is Open access

Gamma-tracking and sensitivity to gamma-emitting backgrounds in SuperNEMO

Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Steven Calvez 2017 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 888 012248 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012248

1742-6596/888/1/012248

Abstract

SuperNEMO, successor to the NEMO3 experiment, is looking for the neutrinoless double beta decay. Its unique design, combining both tracking and calorimetry techniques, provides essential topological informations. Indeed, fully reconstructing the event kinematics allows a powerful background discrimination, would discriminate between the several hypothesized underlying mechanisms, but also gives access to a variety of event topologies which can be used to measure the different background contributions. The SuperNEMO software relies on a range of algorithms to ensure a faithful event reconstruction. The improved detector performance for γ detection coupled to new γ-reconstruction algorithms, based on geometrical and Time-of-Flight criteria, will not only improve the measurements of the γ-emitter backgrounds (208Tl, 214Bi...) but also increase the sensitivity for the search of ββ-decays to the excited states.

Export citation and abstract BibTeX RIS

Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.

10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012248