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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 479, Issue 2-3, Pages 498-510Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00929-9
Keywords
neutrinos; scintillation detector; radioactive sources
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Scintillating crystal detectors offer potential advantages in low-energy low-background experiments for particle physics and astrophysics. The GSO crystal is an interesting detector to explore in future neutrino physics experiments. The contributions to background due to the various channels of intrinsic radio isotopes from the Th-232 and U-238 series are identified and studied with time-correlation analysis and detailed fits to the spectral shape. Good agreement is achieved between measured and simulated spectra, indicating that background suppression factors to the 10(-2)-10(-3) level are possible. The procedures can be adopted for background understanding and suppression in other low-count-rate experiments where the dominant source of background is from internal radioactivity. Based tin 1656 h of data taking, limits on the double beta decay half-life for the various channels in Gd-160 are derived. The limits for the neutrinoless and the Majoron modes are T-1/2(0vbetabeta) > 2.0(0.8) x 10(20) yr and Ti-1/2(ybetabeta) > 3.0(1.9) x 10(19) yr, respectively, at 68(90)% confidence level. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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