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1. Enriched TeO2 bolometers with active particle discrimination: Towards the CUPID experiment

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D.R. Artusa, F.T. Avignone, III, J.W. Beeman, I. Dafinei, L. Dumoulin, Z. Ge, A. Giuliani, C. Gotti, P. de Marcillac, S. Marnieros, S. Nagorny, S. Nisi, C. Nones, E.B. Norman, V. Novati, E. Olivieri, D. Orlandi, L. Pagnanini, L. Pattavina, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, D.V. Poda, C. Rusconi, K. Schäffner, N.D. Scielzo, and Y. Zhu

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Double beta decay, Bolometers, Isotope enrichment, Cherenkov emission, Neganov–Luke effect, Physics, QC1-999
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We present the performances of two 92% enriched 130TeO2 crystals operated as thermal bolometers in view of a next generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te. The crystals, 435 g each, show an energy resolution, evaluated at the 2615 keV γ-line of 208Tl, of 6.5 and 4.3 keV FWHM. The only observable internal radioactive contamination arises from 238U (15 and 8 μBq/kg, respectively). The internal activity of the most problematic nuclei for neutrinoless double beta decay, 226Ra and 228Th, are both evaluated as

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2017
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2. The CROSS Experiment: Rejecting Surface Events by PSD Induced by Superconducting Films

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A. S. Zolotarova, C. Nones, P. de Marcillac, S. Marnieros, M. Chapellier, D.V. Poda, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, H. Khalife, E. Olivieri, L. Dumoulin, V. Novati, C. Oriol, P. Loaiza, L. Bergé, Th. Redon, A. Giuliani, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Surface events rejection, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, tellurium: oxygen, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, pulse shape discrimination, Crystal, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, background: suppression, activity report, Superconductivity, Physics, superconductivity, Bolometer, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), sensitivity, Bolometers, Condensed Matter Physics, molybdenum: oxygen, crystal: surface, Lepton number, bolometer: design, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, MAJORANA, lithium, aluminum, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract

Neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear transition ($T_{1/2}>10^{26}$ y). Its observation would provide an important insight about the nature of neutrinos (Dirac or Majorana particle) demonstrating that the lepton number is not conserved. This decay can be investigated with bolometers embedding the double beta decay isotope ($^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{100}$Mo, $^{116}$Cd, $^{130}$Te...), which perform as low temperature calorimeters (10 mK) detecting particle interactions via a small temperature rise read out by a dedicated thermometer. CROSS (Cryogenic Rare-event Observatory with Surface Sensitivity) aims at the development of bolometric detectors (Li$_{2}$MoO$_{4}$ and TeO$_{2}$) capable of discriminating surface $\alpha$ and $\beta$ interactions by exploiting superconducting properties of Al film deposited on the crystal surface. We report in this paper the results of tests on prototypes performed at CSNSM (Orsay, France) that showed the capability of a-few-$\mu$m-thick superconducting Al film deposited on crystal surface to discriminate surface $\alpha$ from bulk events, thus providing the detector with the required surface sensitivity capability. The CROSS technology would further improve the background suppression and simplify the detector construction with a view to future competitive double beta decay searches., Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Low Temp. Phys

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2020
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3. First search for 2ε and εβ+ processes in 168Yb

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Matthias Laubenstein, O. G. Polischuk, M. L. di Vacri, R. Bernabei, Stefano Nisi, A. Incicchitti, R. Cerulli, P. Belli, V. Caracciolo, D.V. Poda, B. N. Kropivyansky, F.A. Danevich, V. I. Tretyak, F. Cappella, and R. S. Boiko

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Ytterbium, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron capture, double beta decay, chemistry.chemical_element, YTTERBIUM OXIDE, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Semiconductor detector, Nuclear physics, chemistry, Excited state, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Underground laboratory, Positron emission, 010306 general physics
Abstract

The double-electron capture and the electron capture with positron emission in 168Yb have been investigated for the first time at the STELLA facility of the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (Italy) measuring 371 g of highly purified ytterbium oxide placed on the end-cap of a 465 cm3 ultra-low-background high purity Germanium detector (HPGe). No gamma associated to double beta processes in 168Yb have been observed after 2074 h of data taking. This has allowed setting the half-life limits on the level of lim ⁡ T 1 / 2 ∼ 10 14 – 10 18 yr at 90% C.L. Particularly, a lower half-life limit on a possible resonant neutrinoless double-electron capture in 168Yb to the ( 2 ) − 1403.7 keV excited state of 168Er is set as T 1 / 2 ≥ 1.9 × 10 18 yr at 90% C.L. Half-life limits T 1 / 2 2 ν ( 0 ν ) ≥ 4.5 ( 4.3 ) × 10 16 yr were set on the 2 ν ( 0 ν ) 2 β − decay of 176Yb to the 2 + 84.3 keV first excited level of 176Hf.

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2019
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4. Conceptual design of BabyIAXO, the intermediate stage towards the International Axion Observatory

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S. Arguedas Cuendis, C. Oriol, J. Castel, D. Voronin, A. Abeln, Olivier Limousin, A. Marin-Franch, Sergey Troitsky, S. Cebrián, D. Gascon, D. D. M. Ferreira, C. J. Hailey, L. Gastaldo, Stefano Basso, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, T. Dafni, K. Altenmüller, L. Segui, Ulrich Werthenbach, D. Hengstler, J. Golm, J. M. Carmona, F.J. Iguaz, Maurizio Giannotti, F. Rueda-Teruel, Leonid Kravchuk, V. S. Pantuev, S. Aune, S. Rueda-Teruel, K. Ludwig, D. Calvet, Joan Mauricio, Igor Tkachev, Klaus Kurt Desch, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Dudarev, J. P. Mols, Andreas Ringwald, A. A. Nozik, U. Schneekloth, X. F. Navick, Javier Redondo, M. M. Civitani, N. Bykovskiy, E. O. Saemann, Nikita Ushakov, B. Döbrich, O. Pérez, Thomas Papaevangelou, A. Lindner, S. N. Gninenko, B. Kanoute, Eric Armengaud, E. Unzhakov, C. Cogollos, C. Iñiguez, Matthias Mentink, P. Borges de Sousa, Susanne Mertens, Søren Schmidt, Federico Mescia, J. Ruz, Pierre Brun, L. Dumoulin, C. Malbrunot, J. Hahn, V. Chernov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, K. Perez, Thierry Lasserre, I. Drachnev, S. Karstensen, L. Bergé, Y. Giomataris, L. Obis, E. Picatoste, F. Marutzky, S. Oster, I. Lomskaya, Jordi Salvado, B. Biasuzzi, I. G. Irastorza, Lars Hagge, H. P. Pais Da Silva, Y. Menesguen, J. Kaminski, Walter Wuensch, G. López-Alegre, Alessio Notari, S. Marnieros, Michael J. Pivovaroff, Ivor Fleck, A. V. Derbin, P. Laurent, Finn Erland Christensen, T. Schiffer, N. Golubev, David Attié, P. L. Henriksen, C. Nones, D. Unger, M. Dinter, D.V. Poda, A. Giuliani, C. Margalejo, E. Ruiz-Choliz, Julia Vogel, G. Luzón, Amanda Weltman, T. Houdy, Krešimir Jakovčić, G. Pareschi, D. Díez, A. Yanes-Díaz, Matias Rodrigues, F. Orsini, Matthias Schott, J. Galán, V. N. Muratova, Martin Loidl, Biljana Lakić, H. Mirallas, H. H. J. ten Kate, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), IAXO, Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), ANR-19-CE31-0024,DALPS,Déteteurs pour la recherche des particules 'axion-like'(2019), Irastorza, I. G., and IAXO Collaboration

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, QC770-798, Other experiments, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, design [detector], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Other experiment, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, physics.ins-det, Physics, solar [axion], Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), CP violation, Beyond Standard Model, Dark matter, axion-like particles, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, dark matter, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Axion, detector: design, Helioscope, axion: dark matter, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, DESY, IAXO, sensitivity, optics, Beyond standard model, axion: solar, dark matter [axion], astro-ph.IM
Abstract

This article describes BabyIAXO, an intermediate experimental stage of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO), proposed to be sited at DESY. IAXO is a large-scale axion helioscope that will look for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs), produced in the Sun, with unprecedented sensitivity. BabyIAXO is conceived to test all IAXO subsystems (magnet, optics and detectors) at a relevant scale for the final system and thus serve as prototype for IAXO, but at the same time as a fully-fledged helioscope with relevant physics reach itself, and with potential for discovery. The BabyIAXO magnet will feature two 10 m long, 70 cm diameter bores, and will host two detection lines (optics and detector) of dimensions similar to the final ones foreseen for IAXO. BabyIAXO will detect or reject solar axions or ALPs with axion-photon couplings down to $g_{a\gamma} \sim 1.5 \times 10^{-11}$ GeV$^{-1}$, and masses up to $m_a\sim 0.25$ eV. BabyIAXO will offer additional opportunities for axion research in view of IAXO, like the development of precision x-ray detectors to identify particular spectral features in the solar axion spectrum, and the implementation of radiofrequency-cavity-based axion dark matter setups., Comment: 77 pages, 49 figures. Prepared for submission to JHEP. Third version after referees comments

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2021
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5. Pulse Shape Discrimination in CUPID-Mo using Principal Component Analysis

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L. Pattavina, F.A. Danevich, Vasundhara Singh, B. Schmidt, L. Marini, A. S. Barabash, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, K. Schäffner, P. de Marcillac, J. Johnston, V.I. Umatov, Jonathan Ouellet, Ph. Camus, D. Misiak, E. Yakushev, K. Eitel, H. Khalife, S. V. Rozov, C. Rusconi, P. Pari, Laura Cardani, S. Pirro, B. K. Fujikawa, V.D. Grigorieva, V.V. Kobychev, F. Charlieux, B. Siebenborn, I. Dafinei, V. I. Tretyak, M. De Jesus, A. Juillard, Yu. A. Borovlev, Matias Velázquez, Federico Ferri, Alexandre Benoit, D.V. Poda, M. Beretta, L. Vagneron, P. Loaiza, M. de Combarieu, J. A. Scarpaci, L. Bergé, E. P. Makarov, R. Mariam, V.N. Shlegel, Yu. G. Kolomensky, E. Armengaud, Th. Redon, M. Kleifges, C. Tomei, J. Billard, D. L. Helis, C. Augier, O. G. Polischuk, M. M. Zarytskyy, E. Guerard, L. Ma, L. Dumoulin, A. S. Zolotarova, Marc Weber, F. Bellini, B. Paul, T. Dixon, Lindley Winslow, H. Z. Huang, A. Giuliani, M. Pavan, R. Huang, X-F. Navick, Giovanni Benato, L. Pagnanini, E. Olivieri, Eric B. Norman, G. Pessina, C. Nones, V. B. Brudanin, A. Cazes, V. Sanglard, L. Gironi, M. Xue, J. Gascon, N. Casali, S. Marnieros, Haiping Peng, Y. Shen, S. I. Konovalov, M. Gros, Ch. Bourgeois, M. Chapellier, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Néel (NEEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), CUPID, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720-7450, USA (SSL), Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo)

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, principal component analysis, shape analysis, nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, Signal, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, helium: background, physics.data-an, 0302 clinical medicine, Engineering, law, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Instrumentation, Nuclear Experiment, physics.ins-det, Mathematical Physics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, background: suppression, Analysis and statistical methods, calorimeters, data processing methods, double-beta decay detectors, Physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, molybdenum: oxygen, lithium, Principal component analysis, Data processing methods, Physical Sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-DATA-AN]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability [physics.data-an], Shape analysis (digital geometry), data analysis method, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 03 medical and health sciences, Calorimeters, Optics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], molybdenum: nuclide, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Filter (signal processing), Double-beta decay detectors, calibration, Pulse (physics), pile-up, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, scintillation counter: crystal, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
Abstract

CUPID-Mo is a cryogenic detector array designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) of 100Mo. It uses 20 scintillating 100Mo-enriched Li2MoO4 bolometers instrumented with Ge light detectors to perform active suppression of α backgrounds, drastically reducing the expected background in the 0νββ signal region. As a result, pileup events and small detector instabilities that mimic normal signals become non-negligible potential backgrounds. These types of events can in principle be eliminated based on their signal shapes, which are different from those of regular bolometric pulses. We show that a purely data-driven principal component analysis based approach is able to filter out these anomalous events, without the aid of detector response simulations.

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2021
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6. New experimental limits on double-beta decay of osmium

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V. Merlo, F.A. Danevich, V. V. Kobychev, N. G. Kovtun, Svetlana G. Tessalina, A. P. Shcherban, O.G. Polischuk, F. Cappella, D.V. Poda, V. Caracciolo, V.I. Tretyak, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Bernabei, D.V. Kasperovych, A. Incicchitti, G.P. Kovtun, P. Belli, R. Cerulli, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electron capture, energy: ground state, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, double beta decay, electron: capture, osmium, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], positron: production, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, energy: transition, Nuclear physics, background: low, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), germanium: detector, Osmium, Positron emission, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, osmium: semileptonic decay, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, excited state: energy, Settore FIS/04, neutrino: Majorana: mass, Semiconductor detector, Gran Sasso, chemistry, energy spectrum: osmium, Excited state, National laboratory, Ground state
Abstract

Double-beta processes in $^{184}$Os and $^{192}$Os were searched for over 15851 h at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of the I.N.F.N. by using a 118 g ultra-pure osmium sample installed on the endcap of a 112 cm$^3$ ultra-low-background broad-energy germanium detector. New limits on double-electron capture and electron capture with positron emission in $^{184}$Os were set at the level of $\lim T_{1/2} \sim 10^{16}-10^{17}$ yr. In particular the $2\nu$2K and $2\nu$KL decays of $^{184}$Os to the ground state of $^{184}$W are restricted as $T_{1/2}\geq3.0\times 10^{16}$ yr and $T_{1/2}\geq2.0\times 10^{16}$ yr, respectively. A lower limit on the half-life for the double-beta decay of $^{192}$Os to the first excited level of $^{192}$Pt was set as $\lim T_{1/2}=2.0\times 10^{20}$ yr at 90\% C.L., Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

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2021
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7. Axion search with BabyIAXO in view of IAXO

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Pierre Brun, A. Marin-Franch, S. Aune, C. Iñiguez, G. Luzón, D. Díez, Y. Giomataris, L. Obis, Nikolai Golubev, Igor Tkachev, G. Pareschi, S. Rueda-Teruel, B. Biasuzzi, D. Unger, Marta Civitani, O. Limousin, L. Kravchuk, A. Abeln, K. Altenmüller, Walter Wuensch, Ulrich Werthenbach, Sergey Troitsky, N. Bykovskiy, J.P. Mols, Sergei Gninenko, J. Golm, L. Dumoulin, Amanda Weltman, Matthias Mentink, C. Nones, Krešimir Jakovčić, I. Lomskaya, Javier Redondo, J. Vogel, J. Ruz, I. Drachnev, M. J. Pivovaroff, D.V. Poda, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Javier Galan, Loredana Gastaldo, T. Lasserre, C. Malbrunot, I. G. Irastorza, Lars Hagge, Nikita Ushakov, P. L. Henriksen, Joan Mauricio, D. Calvet, E. Ruiz-Choliz, V. Chernov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, T. Papaevangelou, K. Perez, BayarJon Paul Lubsandorzhiev, S. Marnieros, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, J. F. Castel, H. P. Pais Da Silva, S. Schmidt, H. Ten Kate, S. Cebrián, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. A. Nozik, F. J. Iguaz-Gutierrez, Finn Erland Christensen, Y. Menesguen, David Gascon, T. Schiffer, P. Laurent, V. S. Pantuev, M. R.D. Rodrigues, D. Hengstler, David Attié, C. Margalejo, J. M. Carmona, Jordi Salvado, B. Kanoute, F. Marutzky, Stefano Basso, T. Dafni, S. Arguedas Cuendis, Alexey Dudarev, C. Oriol, S. Oster, Luc Bergé, G. López-Alegre, J. Hahn, Biljana Lakić, U. Schneekloth, H. Mirallas, Maurizio Giannotti, E. Ferrer-Ribas, Charles J. Hailey, X-F. Navick, F. Rueda-Teruel, A. V. Derbin, E. O. Saemann, E. Armengaud, E. Picatoste, Federico Mescia, V. Muratova, Martin Loidl, O. Pérez, D. Voronin, P. Borges de Sousa, K. Ludwig, Klaus Kurt Desch, Babette Döbrich, S. Karstensen, D. D. M. Ferreira, L. Segui, Andreas Ringwald, C. Cogollos, A. Yanes-Díaz, Ivor Fleck, F. Orsini, A. Giuliani, Matthias Schott, Jochen Kaminski, Alessio Notari, M. Dinter, E. Unzhakov, A. Lindner, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Heidelberg University, University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza], European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology [Moscow] (MIPT), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), National Research Center 'Kurchatov Institute' (NRC KI), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg] (DESY), National Space Institute [Lyngby] (DTU Space), University of Siegen, Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Dept Phys Sci - Barry University, Barry University, Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences (INR), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany], Universität Siegen [Siegen], Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Rudjer Boskovic Institute [Zagreb], Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (DM2I), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département d'instrumentation Numérique (DIN (CEA-LIST)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz = Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), University of Cape Town, IAXO collaboration, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] (DTU), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), and Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU)

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Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, solar axion, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], experimental methods, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, 7. Clean energy, String (physics), Standard Model, axion helioscope, design [detector], International Axion Observatory (IAXO), Observatory, Peccei-Quinn mechanism, Dark Matter, detector design, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Axion, sun-tracking systems, physics.ins-det, activity report, detector: design, Physics, instrumentation, Helioscope, Large Hadron Collider, detector, solar [axion], DESY, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], IAXO, magnet, optics, axion: solar
Abstract

Axions are a natural consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, the most compelling solution to the strong-CP problem. Similar axion-like particles (ALPs) also appear in a number of possible extensions of the Standard Model, notably in string theories. Both axions and ALPs are very well motivated candidates for Dark Matter, and in addition, they would be copiously produced at the sun's core. A relevant effort during the last decade has been the CAST experiment at CERN, the most sensitive axion helioscope to-date. The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a large-scale 4th generation helioscope. As its primary physics goal, IAXO will look for solar axions or ALPs with a signal to background ratio of about 5 orders of magnitude higher than CAST. Recently the IAXO collaboration has proposed and intermediate experimental stage, BabyIAXO, conceived to test all IAXO subsystems (magnet, optics, detectors and sun-tracking systems) at a relevant scale for the final system and thus serve as pathfinder for IAXO but at the same time as a fully-fledged helioscope with record and relevant physics reach in itself with potential for discovery. BabyIAXO was endorsed by the Physics Review committee of DESY last May 2019. Here we will review the status and prospects of BabyIAXO and its potential to probe the most physics motivated regions of the axion & ALPs parameter space., 6 pages, ICHEP 2020 Virtual conference

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2020
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8. Low background scintillators to investigate rare processes

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V. Merlo, V.V. Kobychev, A. Di Marco, D.V. Kasperovych, O. G. Polischuk, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Bernabei, F. Cappella, V. Caracciolo, F. Montecchia, F.A. Danevich, A. S. Barabash, D.V. Poda, P. Belli, R. Cerulli, A. Incicchitti, V. I. Tretyak, V.N. Shlegel, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
axions, Computer science, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, background: low, etc.), 0103 physical sciences, rare processes, Neutrino detectors, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation, underground physics, Mathematical Physics, detector: design, activity report, Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, HgI etc), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/04, Double-beta decay detectors, Engineering physics, CZT, scintillation counter: crystal, inorganic compounds, HPGe, performance, Gamma detectors (scintillators
Abstract

International audience; Many developments, researches on innovative materials and purification techniques have offered a wide set of inorganic scintillators to investigate many processes; further developments are still in progress. In particular, efforts to realize very low background detectors have opened their effective application to the search of rare processes deep underground. Several cases will be outlined offering—to some extent—a discussion of several inorganic crystal scintillators' performances and their potentiality for the future.

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2020
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9. Experimental and numerical investigations of the Czochralski growth of Li2MoO4 crystals for heat- scintillation cryogenic bolometers

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E. Olivieri, Matias Velázquez, P. de Marcillac, A. Ahmine, A. S. Zolotarova, T. Duffar, D.V. Poda, C. Nones, H. Cabane, S. Marnieros, A. Giuliani, Th. Redon, V. Novati, Philippe Veber, Carmen Stelian, Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Luminescence (LUMINESCENCE), Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne] (ILM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CristalInnov, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE08-0018,CLYMENE,Croissance Czochralski de cristaux massifs Li2MoO4 pour les bolomètres scintillants utilisés en détection des évènements rares(2016)

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Lithium molybdate, Induction heating, Materials science, 02 engineering and technology, B2 Scintillator materials, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Inorganic Chemistry, Crystal, chemistry.chemical_compound, law, 0103 physical sciences, Materials Chemistry, Composite material, Ingot, 010302 applied physics, Scintillation, Boule, Bolometer, A2 Czochralski method, Cleavage (crystal), [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, B1 Oxides, A1 Computer simulation, chemistry, B1 Lithium compounds, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract

International audience; A new technology for the mass production of lithium molybdate (Li2MoO4) crystals needed for the realization of the cryogenic neutrinoless double-beta decay detectors is under development within the framework of the CLYMENE project. Crystals with 4 and 5 cm in diameter were grown in two different Czochralski configurations. The first configuration, based on inductive heating of a RF coil coupled with a platinum crucible, was used to grow crystals of 4 cm in diameter. Bolometric tests performed with two samples cut from a 230 g crystal have shown less performances of the large sample (158 g), which had a cleavage, as compared to the small non-cracked sample (13.5 g). Numerical 2 modeling was applied to investigate the temperature field in the furnace, the melt convection and thermo-elastic stresses in the crystal. Numerical results reveal 30% higher thermal stress at the bottom part of the ingot in the case of a concave shape of the crystal tail (experimental case) as compared to the case of a convex shaped tail. This could explain why the fracture started at the bottom part of the 230 g crystal boule, and highlights the importance of the crystal shape in the last stage of growth process. The furnace configuration used to grow 5 cm-diameter crystals was numerically optimized in order to reduce the thermal stress in the crystals. The first kg-mass Li2MoO4 ingot grown in the optimized configuration exhibit regular shape and good structural quality.

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2020
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10. Precise measurement of $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo with the CUPID-Mo detection technology

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Matthias Kleifges, S. Marnieros, A. S. Barabash, J. Kotila, Ezio Previtali, E. Guerard, B. Welliver, Lindley Winslow, P. de Marcillac, Claudia Tomei, A. S. Zolotarova, L. Marini, R. G. Huang, O. G. Polischuk, D. Misiak, Th. Redon, J. Billard, L. Cardani, Stefano Pirro, Federico Ferri, Yao Shen, J. Johnston, M. Pavan, P. Camus, V. Novati, B. K. Fujikawa, M. de Combarieu, L. Pattavina, Alain Benoit, B. Siebenborn, Yu. A. Borovlev, F. Charlieux, H. Z. Huang, S. V. Rozov, B. Paul, E. Armengaud, E. P. Makarov, L. Ma, Vasundhara Singh, F.A. Danevich, M. Briere, P. Loaiza, B. Schmidt, E. Elkhoury, M. De Jesus, A. Giuliani, V. I. Umatov, D. L. Helis, S. I. Konovalov, C. Rusconi, M. Gros, C. Nones, L. Dumoulin, V.N. Shlegel, K. Eitel, H. Khalife, Marc Weber, X. F. Navick, Francesca Bellini, G. Pessina, A. Leder, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, M. Beretta, P. Pari, L. Pagnanini, Yu G. Kolomensky, Ioan Dafinei, Jonathan Ouellet, C. Augier, Giovanni Benato, K. Schäffner, V. Sanglard, A. Juillard, Matias Velázquez, V. V. Kobychev, L. Vagneron, L. Bergé, E. Yakushev, L. Gironi, E. Olivieri, J. Gascon, A. Cazes, Ch. Bourgeois, V.B. Brudanin, M. Chapellier, N. Casali, M. Xue, V. D. Grigorieva, Haiping Peng, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Néel (NEEL), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Armengaud, E, Augier, C, Barabash, A, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Benoit, A, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Billard, J, Borovlev, Y, Bourgeois, C, Briere, M, Brudanin, V, Camus, P, Cardani, L, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Chapellier, M, Charlieux, F, de Combarieu, M, Dafinei, I, Danevich, F, De Jesus, M, Dumoulin, L, Eitel, K, Elkhoury, E, Ferri, F, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Grigorieva, V, Gros, M, Guerard, E, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Khalife, H, Kleifges, M, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Leder, A, Kotila, J, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Makarov, E, de Marcillac, P, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Misiak, D, Navick, X, Nones, C, Novati, V, Olivieri, E, Ouellet, J, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Polischuk, O, Previtali, E, Redon, T, Rozov, S, Rusconi, C, Sanglard, V, Schaffner, K, Schmidt, B, Shen, Y, Shlegel, V, Siebenborn, B, Singh, V, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Umatov, V, Vagneron, L, Velazquez, M, Weber, M, Welliver, B, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yakushev, E, Zolotarova, A, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo)

Subjects
Lithium molybdate, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Analytical chemistry, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, chemistry.chemical_compound, Particle and Plasma Physics, two-neutrino double-beta decay, scintillating bolometers, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Beta (velocity), Nuclear, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Engineering (miscellaneous), physics.ins-det, S076H2N, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Beta decay, Nuclear & Particles Physics, 3. Good health, chemistry, double beta decays, bolometers, Underground laboratory, Ground state
Abstract

We report the measurement of the two-neutrino double-beta ($2\nu\beta\beta$) decay of $^{100}$Mo to the ground state of $^{100}$Ru using lithium molybdate (\crystal) scintillating bolometers. The detectors were developed for the CUPID-Mo program and operated at the EDELWEISS-III low background facility in the Modane underground laboratory. From a total exposure of $42.235$ kg$\times$d, the half-life of $^{100}$Mo is determined to be $T_{1/2}^{2\nu}=[7.12^{+0.18}_{-0.14}\,\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm0.10\,\mathrm{(syst.)}]\times10^{18}$ years. This is the most accurate determination of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ half-life of $^{100}$Mo to date. We also confirm, with the statistical significance of $>3\sigma$, that the single-state dominance model of the $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo is favored over the high-state dominance model., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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2020
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11. Calibration of nuclear recoils at the 100 eV scale using neutron capture

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R. Cerulli, Leo Stodolsky, Olivier Litaize, A. Letourneau, M. Vivier, A. Chalil, F. Cappella, A. Langenkämper, F. Gunsing, E. Mazzucato, Olivier Serot, A. Erhart, D.V. Poda, Eric Dumonteil, A. Giuliani, L. Pattavina, N. Schermer, L. Thulliez, T. Ortmann, R. D. Strauss, N. Casali, Thierry Lasserre, D. Lhuillier, M. Kaznacheeva, P. de Marcillac, G. Soum, M. Vignati, V. Wagner, A. Chebboubi, C. Nones, T. Materna, A. Wex, E. Jericha, R. Rogly, B. Mauri, S. Marnieros, A. Kinast, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Cadarache, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Neutron capture, Recoil, Neutrino detector, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Neutrino, Cryogenic detectors, Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.), Neutrino detectors, Superconductive detectors (bolometers, tunnel junctions etc), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Axion, Mathematical Physics
Abstract

The development of low-threshold detectors for the study of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and for the search for light dark matter necessitates methods of low-energy calibration. We suggest this can be provided by the nuclear recoils resulting from the $\gamma$ emission following thermal neutron capture. In particular, several MeV-scale single-$\gamma$ transitions induce well-defined nuclear recoil peaks in the 100 eV range. Using the FIFRELIN code, complete schemes of $\gamma$-cascades for various isotopes can be predicted with high accuracy to determine the continuous background of nuclear recoils below the calibration peaks. We present a comprehensive experimental concept for the calibration of CaWO$_4$ and Ge cryogenic detectors at a research reactor. For CaWO$_4$ the simulations show that two nuclear recoil peaks at 112.5 eV and 160.3 eV should be visible above background simply in the spectrum of the cryogenic detector. Then we discuss how the additional tagging for the associated $\gamma$ increases the sensitivity of the method and extends its application to a wider energy range and to Ge cryogenic detectors., Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures

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2020
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12. First data from the CUPID-Mo neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

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K. Schäffner, N. Casali, Matthias Kleifges, M. De Jesus, S. Marnieros, S. V. Rozov, Alexandre Benoit, V. Singh, J. Gascon, Haiping Peng, P. Camus, Federico Ferri, R. G. Huang, C. Rusconi, M. de Combarieu, C. Augier, M. Gros, A. Cazes, P. Pari, L. Pagnanini, Yu G. Kolomensky, L. Dumoulin, A. S. Barabash, E. Olivieri, V. Sanglard, V. Novati, Marc Weber, A. Juillard, B. Paul, Matias Velázquez, V. V. Kobychev, L. Vagneron, Ezio Previtali, L. Bergé, O. G. Polischuk, M. Xue, B. K. Fujikawa, X.-F. Navick, K. Eitel, H. Khalife, V.N. Shlegel, B. Welliver, D. L. Helis, F. Charlieux, H. Z. Huang, D. Misiak, Ioan Dafinei, E. P. Makarov, V. D. Grigorieva, L. Cardani, Stefano Pirro, Giovanni Benato, E. Elkhoury, Francesca Bellini, P. de Marcillac, E. Yakushev, L. Gironi, Jonathan Ouellet, A. Giuliani, S. I. Konovalov, L. Pattavina, Ch. Bourgeois, V.B. Brudanin, M. Chapellier, M. Beretta, Lindley Winslow, Th. Redon, J. Billard, M. Pavan, L. Marini, Yao Shen, J. Johnston, A. Leder, Yu. A. Borovlev, E. Armengaud, E. Guerard, L. Ma, Claudia Tomei, F.A. Danevich, P. Loaiza, V. I. Umatov, S. Sorbino, A. S. Zolotarova, G. Pessina, B. Siebenborn, M. Briere, B. Schmidt, C. Nones, D.V. Poda, and V.I. Tretyak

Subjects
Physics, History, Particle physics, Scintillation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Light detection, Bolometer, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment, Computer Science Applications, Education, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Full width at half maximum, CUORE, law, Double beta decay, Background suppression, ddc:530, Sensitivity (control systems), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The CUPID-Mo experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{100}$Mo, evaluating the technology of cryogenic scintillating Li$_{2}^{100}$MoO$_4$ detectors for CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ID). CUPID-Mo detectors feature background suppression using a dual-readout scheme with Li$_{2}$MoO$_4$ crystals complemented by Ge bolometers for light detection. The detection of both heat and scintillation light signals allows the efficient discrimination of $\alpha$ from $\gamma$&$\beta$ events. In this proceedings, we discuss results from the first 2 months of data taking in spring 2019. In addition to an excellent bolometric performance of 6.7$\,$keV (FWHM) at 2615$\,$keV and an $\alpha$ separation of better than 99.9\% for all detectors, we report on bulk radiopurity for Th and U. Finally, we interpret the accumulated physics data in terms of a limit of $T_{1/2}^{0\nu}\,> 3\times10^{23}\,$yr for $^{100}$Mo and discuss the sensitivity of CUPID-Mo until the expected end of physics data taking in early 2020., Comment: Proceedings for TAUP 2019, submitted to IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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2020
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13. Growth and characterization of a Li2Mg2(MoO4)3 scintillating bolometer

Author

L.L. Dulger, L. Dumoulin, V.A. Trifonov, V.Ya. Degoda, V. Novati, S. Marnieros, I.V. Yushina, A. Giuliani, C. Nones, A.A. Pavlyuk, D.V. Poda, A. S. Zolotarova, P. de Marcillac, F.A. Danevich, and E. Olivieri

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Analytical chemistry, chemistry.chemical_element, Crystal growth, Molybdate, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Lithium, Emission spectrum, 010306 general physics, Phosphorescence, Luminescence, Instrumentation
Abstract

Lithium magnesium molybdate (Li 2 Mg 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 ) crystals were grown by the low-thermal-gradient Czochralski method . Luminescence properties of the material (emission spectra, thermally stimulated luminescence, dependence of intensity on temperature, phosphorescence) have been studied under X-ray excitation in the temperature interval from 8 to 400 K, while at the same being operated as a scintillating bolometer at 20 mK for the first time. We demonstrated that Li 2 Mg 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 crystals are a potentially promising detector material to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo.

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2018
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14. Development of $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search

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C. Augier, T. Bergmann, V. Sanglard, S. Di Domizio, M. Vignati, B. Paul, L. Hehn, X. F. Navick, J. W. Beeman, A. Giuliani, E. Queguiner, J. Billard, Andreas Fleischmann, Matthias Laubenstein, H. le Sueur, L. Cardani, L. Dumoulin, L. Devoyon, L. Pattavina, J. Gascon, A. S. Zolotarova, Stefano Pirro, V. Kozlov, L. Gastaldo, A. Cazes, T. Redon, Francesca Bellini, E. Yakushev, G. Piperno, O. Strazzer, Y. Penichot, I.M. Ivanov, S. Scorza, P. Pari, L. Pagnanini, V. D. Grigorieva, Noël Coron, A. Juillard, Matias Velázquez, F. Koskas, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, P. Camus, V.N. Shlegel, K. Eitel, M. de Combarieu, S. V. Rozov, V. V. Kobychev, L. Vagneron, L. Bergé, Vl.I. Tretyak, Matias Rodrigues, R. S. Boiko, V. A. Kudryavtsev, E. Armengaud, F. Ferroni, A. Broniatowski, M. Pavan, Yong Jin, A. S. Barabash, N. Foerster, D. Tcherniakhovski, Alain Benoit, O. Plantevin, N.V. Ivannikova, Martin Loidl, P. de Marcillac, K. Schäffner, Matthias Kleifges, S. Marnieros, P. Magnier, C. Rusconi, M. Gros, C. Nones, D.V. Poda, D. M. Chernyak, B. Siebenborn, M. O. Nikolaichuk, Claudia Tomei, F.A. Danevich, Ya.V. Vasiliev, M. Mancuso, V. I. Umatov, S.I. Konovalov, Christian Enss, E. Olivieri, V. Humbert, S. Hervé, Marc Weber, N. Casali, V.B. Brudanin, M. Chapellier, L. Gironi, I. Dafinei, H. Kraus, G. Pessina, T.B. Bekker, E. P. Makarov, S. Nagorny, M. De Jesus, Silvia Capelli, V. Novati, and F. Charlieux

Subjects
Physics, Lithium molybdate, Recrystallization (geology), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, lcsh:Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Full width at half maximum, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:QB460-466, lcsh:QC770-798, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a technology involving $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( $$\sim 1~\hbox {kg}$$ ∼ 1 kg ), high optical quality, radiopure $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2–0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo (3034 keV) is 4–6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the $$\alpha $$ α -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than $$8\sigma $$ 8 σ . Less than $$10~\upmu \hbox {Bq/kg}$$ 10 μ Bq/kg activity of $$^{232}\hbox {Th}\, (^{228}\hbox {Th})$$ 232 Th ( 228 Th ) and $$^{226}\hbox {Ra}$$ 226 Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only $$10~\hbox {kg}\times \hbox {d}$$ 10 kg × d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as $$T_{1/2}$$ T 1 / 2 = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] $$\times ~10^{18}~\hbox {years}$$ × 10 18 years . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of $$^{100}\hbox {Mo}$$ 100 Mo .

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2017
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15. First direct search for $2 \epsilon$ and $ \epsilon\beta^{+}$ decay of 144Sm and $2 \beta^{-}$ decay of 154Sm

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M. Laubenstein, P. Belli, R. Bernabei, R. Cerulli, A. Incicchitti, Stefano Nisi, V. Caracciolo, Vl.I. Tretyak, R. S. Boiko, B. N. Kropivyansky, F.A. Danevich, D.V. Poda, A. Di Marco, O. G. Polischuk, F. Cappella, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron capture, Hadron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 3. Good health, Nuclear physics, Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Direct search, Beta (velocity), Positron emission, 010306 general physics, National laboratory, Ground state, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The first direct search for the double electron capture ($2\epsilon$) and the electron capture with positron emission ($\epsilon\beta^+$) in $^{144}$Sm to the ground state and to the excited levels of $^{144}$Nd was realized by measuring - over 1899 h - a 342 g sample of highly purified samarium oxide (Sm$_2$O$_3$) with the ultra-low background HP-Ge $\gamma$ spectrometer GeCris (465 cm$^3$) at the STELLA facility of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). No effect was observed and half-life limits were estimated at the level of $T_{1/2} \sim (0.1-1.3) \times 10^{20}$ yr (90% C.L.). Moreover, for the first time half-life limits of the double beta ($2\beta^-$) decay of $^{154}$Sm to several excited levels of $^{154}$Gd have been set; they are at the level of $T_{1/2} \sim (0.06-8) \times 10^{20}$ yr (90% C.L.)., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures and 4 tables

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2019
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16. Charge-to-heat transducers exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect for light detection in rare-event searches

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M. Mancuso, A. S. Zolotarova, V. Novati, D.V. Poda, M. Tenconi, A. Giuliani, P. de Marcillac, L. Bergé, S. Marnieros, E. Olivieri, L. Dumoulin, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, noise, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Infrared, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Double-beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, fabrication, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Signal, Noise (electronics), law.invention, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, photon: irradiation, 0103 physical sciences, Dark matter, germanium: detector, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, scintillation counter, detector: design, Physics, Light detector, radiation: infrared, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Bolometer, Detector, Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect, bibliography, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), electrode, calibration, Semiconductor detector, Ge bolometer, transducer, germanium, cryogenics, Optoelectronics, photon: detector, business, performance, Voltage
Abstract

International audience; In this work we present how to fabricate large-area (15 cm 2 ), ultra-low threshold germanium bolometric photo-detectors and how to operate them to detect few (optical) photons. These detectors work at temperatures as low as few tens of mK and exploit the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke (NTL) effect. They are operated as charge-to-heat transducers: the heat signal is linearly increased by simply changing a voltage bias applied to special metal electrodes, fabricated onto the germanium absorber, and read by a (NTD-Ge) thermal sensor. We fabricated a batch of five prototypes and ran them in different facilities with dilution refrigerators. We carefully studied how impinging spurious infrared radiation impacts the detector performances, by shining infrared photons via optical-fiber-guided LED signals, in a controlled manner, into the bolometers. We hence demonstrated how the radiation-tightness of the test environment tremendously enhances the detector performances, allowing to set electrode voltage bias up to 90 volts without any leakage current and signal-to-noise gain as large as a factor 12 (for visible photons). As consequence, for the first time we could operate large-area NTD-Ge-sensor-equipped NTL bolometric photo-detectors capable to reach sub 10-eV baseline noise (RMS). Such detectors open new frontiers for rare-event search experiments based on low light yield Ge-NTD equipped scintillating bolometers, such the CUPID neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment.

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2019
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17. Aurora experiment: Final results of studies of $^{116}$Cd 2$\beta$ decay with enriched $^{116}$CdWO$_4$ crystal scintillators

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D. M. Chernyak, V. Caracciolo, M. Laubenstein, V.N. Shlegel, P. Belli, D.V. Poda, V. I. Tretyak, Ya.V. Vasiliev, F. Cappella, R. Cerulli, V. I. Umatov, A. S. Barabash, A. Incicchitti, D.V. Kasperovych, F.A. Danevich, S. d'Angelo, O. G. Polischuk, R. Bernabei, V.V. Kobychev, S. I. Konovalov, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
double beta decay, scintillators, 116Cd, energy: ground state, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, energy: transition, Nuclear physics, Crystal, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), 010306 general physics, lepton number: violation, Majoron, Physics, R parity: violation, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, excited state: energy, neutrino: Majorana: mass, Gran Sasso, cadmium: semileptonic decay, cadmium: nuclide, Excited state, Underground laboratory, scintillation counter: crystal, Ground state
Abstract

International audience; Final results of studies of 116Cd 2β decay with CdWO4 crystal scintillators, enriched in 116Cd to 82%, are presented. After few years (2011 – 2017) of measurements with radiopure 116CdWO4 scintillators (mass of 1.162 kg) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (Italy), the half-life of 116Cd relatively to 2ν2β decay to the ground state of 116Sn was measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy as T1/2=(2.63−0.12+0.11)×1019 yr. A new limit on 0ν2β decay of 116Cd was set as T1/2≥2.2×1023 yr at 90% C.L., which is the most stringent to-date restriction for this isotope. Limits for 0ν2β decay with majoron(s) emission, Lorentz-violating 2ν2β decay and 2β transitions to excited states of 116Sn were set at the level of T1/2≥1020−1022 yr.

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2019
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18. Study of Double-beta Decay of 150Nd to the First 0+ Excited Level of 150Sm

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V. I. Umatov, V. Caracciolo, O. G. Polischuk, R. Bernabei, D.V. Kasperovych, A. Incicchitti, P. Belli, F. Cappella, S. I. Konovalov, R. Cerulli, A. Di Marco, D.V. Poda, A. S. Barabash, M. Laubenstein, R. S. Boiko, V.V. Kobychev, F.A. Danevich, V. I. Tretyak, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
double beta decay, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Coincidence, energy: transition, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, double-beta decay: (2neutrino), 010306 general physics, lepton number: violation, Neodimium, Physics, nucleus: semileptonic decay, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray spectrometer, excited state: energy, gamma spectrometer, neutrino: Majorana: mass, Gran Sasso, error: statistical, Cascade, cadmium: nuclide, Excited state, Underground laboratory, scintillation counter: crystal, spectrometer, Hpge detector
Abstract

Two-neutrino 2β decay of 150Nd to the 01+ 740.5-keV excited level of 150Sm has been investigated by using a highly purified 2.381-kg Nd2O3 sample with the help of ultra-low-background gamma spectrometer with 4 HPGe detectors (≈ 255 cm3 each) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (INFN, Italy). Gamma quanta, expected in cascade after de-excitation of the 01+ (740.5 keV) excited level of 150Sm, have been observed in the coincidence spectra accumulated over 25947 h. The half-life value has been preliminary estimated as T1/2=[ 6.9−1.9+4.0(stat)±1.1(syst) ]×109y. The data taking is in progress to reduce the statistical error.Two-neutrino 2β decay of 150Nd to the 01+ 740.5-keV excited level of 150Sm has been investigated by using a highly purified 2.381-kg Nd2O3 sample with the help of ultra-low-background gamma spectrometer with 4 HPGe detectors (≈ 255 cm3 each) at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (INFN, Italy). Gamma quanta, expected in cascade after de-excitation of the 01+ (740.5 keV) excited level of 150Sm, have been observed in the coincidence spectra accumulated over 25947 h. The half-life value has been preliminary estimated as T1/2=[ 6.9−1.9+4.0(stat)±1.1(syst) ]×109y. The data taking is in progress to reduce the statistical error.

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2019
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19. First results on sub-GeV spin-dependent dark matter interactions with$^{7}$Li

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C. Schwertner, L. Pattavina, A. Fuss, J. Rothe, Josef Jochum, L. Canonica, A. Giuliani, M. Olmi, D. Schmiedmayer, M. Chapellier, H. Kluck, X. Defay, V. Zema, Andreas Erb, Peter Bauer, K. Schäffner, E. Mondragon, V.N. Shlegel, R. D. Strauss, S. Di Lorenzo, W. Potzel, T. Ortmann, A. Münster, A. H. Abdelhameed, F. Pröbst, A. Langenkämper, F. Petricca, S. Fichtinger, F. Reindl, Jochen Schieck, I. Usherov, P. Gorla, N. Ferreiro Iachellini, C. Pagliarone, M. Mancuso, C. Türkoğlu, A. S. Zolotarova, V. Schipperges, C. Nones, G. Angloher, D. Hauff, C. Bucci, Leo Stodolsky, V.M. Mokina, F. v. Feilitzsch, A.C.S.S.M. Bento, E. Bertoldo, Matias Velázquez, A. Kinast, A. D'Addabbo, Stefan Schönert, D.V. Poda, M. Stahlberg, C. Strandhagen, M. Willers, H. Kraus, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), CRESST, Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Nuclear reaction, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, dark matter: interaction, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Dark matter, Mathematics::Analysis of PDEs, FOS: Physical sciences, Elementary particle, spin: dependence, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, p: mass, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Engineering (miscellaneous), Spin-½, Physics, S030DP5, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, target: crystal, S030DP1, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), S030DN5, Orientation (vector space), n: mass, cryogenics, lithium, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

In this work, we want to highlight the potential of lithium as a target for spin-dependent dark matter search in cryogenic experiments, with a special focus on the low-mass region of the parameter space. We operated a prototype detector module based on a $$\hbox {Li}_2\hbox {MoO}_4$$ target crystal in an above-ground laboratory. Despite the high background environment, the detector sets a competitive limit on spin-dependent interactions of dark matter particles with protons and neutrons for masses between $$0.8~\hbox {GeV/c}^2$$ and $$1.5~\hbox {GeV/c}^2$$ .

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2019
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20. First test of a Li2WO4(Mo) bolometric detector for the measurement of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

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V. Novati, A. Giuliani, Thierry Lasserre, Laurent Dussopt, Th. Redon, Matias Rodrigues, Martin Loidl, S. Marnieros, L. Dumoulin, C. Nones, S.V. Kirsanova, D.V. Poda, Abdelkader Aliane, V. I. Tretyak, X. de la Broise, V. Wagner, V. Goudon, M. Vivier, A. S. Zolotarova, E. Olivieri, O.P. Barinova, F.A. Danevich, I. Ch. Avetissov, and P. de Marcillac

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Lithium tungstate, Bolometer, Detector, Context (language use), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle identification, law.invention, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation
Abstract

The first observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE ν NS), reported by the COHERENT Collaboration in 2017, paved the way for a new generation of experiments using reactor ν e and aiming at precisely measuring this process. In this context, the BASKET (Bolometers At Sub-KeV Energy Thresholds) R&D project investigates the use of cryogenic detectors for a reactor CE ν NS experiment. This article reports on the first test of a Mo-doped lithium tungstate scintillating bolometer ( ⊘ 18 × 7 mm, 8 g), performed in an aboveground laboratory at CSNSM, Orsay (France). The detector bolometric performance (energy and time response, particle identification capabilities) and radiopurity have been studied and confirm the promising potential of lithium tungstate-based bolometric detectors for the measurement of CE ν NS at reactors.

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2020
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21. Searches for electron interactions induced by new physics in the EDELWEISS-III germanium bolometers

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M. De Jesus, M. Chapellier, A. Giuliani, F. Charlieux, J. Gascon, L. Dumoulin, R. Maisonobe, B. Paul, C. Augier, Ph. Camus, V. A. Kudryavtsev, M. Kleifges, C. Nones, A. Juillard, J. Billard, S. Scorza, Luc Bergé, V. Kozlov, Alain Benoit, D. Misiak, Denis Tcherniakhovski, K. Eitel, M. Weber, P. Pari, E. Olivieri, S. Marnieros, H. Kraus, E. Queguiner, A. Cazes, H. Le Sueur, M. Gros, E. Armengaud, Yong Jin, L. Vagneron, D.V. Poda, B. Siebenborn, A. S. Zolotarova, V. Sanglard, S. V. Rozov, A. Broniatowski, X-F. Navick, E. Yakushev, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies [Orsay] (C2N), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), EDELWEISS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Dark matter, galaxy: dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, coupling constant: upper limit, S029AEC, Electron, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, EDELWEISS, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Galactic halo, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), galaxy: halo, bolometer, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Experiments in gravity, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], axion: coupling, 010306 general physics, Axion, S030UDM, Physics, photon: hidden sector, axion: dark matter, boson: dark matter, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, new physics, dark matter: mass, S029HPH, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 3. Good health, Massless particle, germanium, S029IAN, electron: interaction, electron: lifetime, axion-like particles, axion: solar, absorption, cosmology, experimental results
Abstract

We make use of the EDELWEISS-III array of germanium bolometers to search for electron interactions at the keV scale induced by phenomena beyond the Standard Model. A 90% C.L. lower limit is set on the electron lifetime decaying to invisibles, $��> 1.2\times 10^{24}$ years. We investigate the emission of axions or axionlike particles (ALPs) by the Sun, constraining the coupling parameters $g_{ae}, 8 pages, 5 figures, matches published version

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2018
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22. Recent Developments and Results on Double Beta Decays with Crystal Scintillators and HPGe Spectrometry

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Matthias Laubenstein, V.N. Shlegel, Viktor B. Brudanin, Vladimir I. Umatov, F.A. Danevich, Alessandro Di Marco, R. Cerulli, Sergey I. Konovalov, O. G. Polischuk, Mykola M. Zarytskyy, R. Bernabei, V. V. Kobychev, Yan V. Vasiliev, V. I. Tretyak, D. M. Chernyak, V. Caracciolo, A. S. Barabash, F. Montecchia, P. Belli, A. Incicchitti, D.V. Kasperovych, Roman S. Boiko, D.V. Poda, V. Merlo, F. Cappella, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)

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lcsh:QC793-793.5, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, HPGe spectrometry, low background measurements, General Physics and Astronomy, double beta decay, scintillators, Scintillator, Mass spectrometry, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, Crystal, background: low, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, rare processes, crystal scintillators, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, activity report, semiconductor detector: germanium, Physics, Double Beta Decay, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, lcsh:Elementary particle physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, double-beta decay, DAMA, sensitivity, deep underground detector, Semiconductor detector, Gran Sasso, Beta (plasma physics), scintillation counter: crystal, High Energy Physics::Experiment, National laboratory, Hpge detector
Abstract

International audience; Recent developments, results, and perspectives arising from double beta decay experiments at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of the INFN by using HPGe detectors and crystal scintillators and by exploiting various approaches and different isotopes are summarized. The measurements here presented have been performed in the experimental set-ups of the DAMA collaboration. These setups are optimized for low-background studies and operate deep underground at LNGS. The presented results are of significant value to the field, and the sensitivity achieved for some of the considered isotopes is one of the best available to date.

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2018
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23. New scintillating bolometer crystals for rare particle detection

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Huicong Hong, Kanai S. Shah, Jarek Glodo, A. Giuliani, D.V. Poda, Yaroslav Ogorodnik, Michael R. Squillante, Gregory J. Mizell, Lindley Winslow, A. Churilov, Edgar V. van Loef, Joshua Tower, A. Leder, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 020209 energy, chemistry.chemical_element, 02 engineering and technology, bolometer: crystal, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Crystal, LiInSe 2, molybdenum, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Scintillating bolometer, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, selenium, Instrumentation, scintillation counter, detector: design, Physics, background, LiInSe2, Bolometer, Na2Mo2O7, MAJORANA, chemistry, Scintillation counter, electron: energy spectrum, Lithium, Neutrinoless double-beta decay, Neutrino, Atomic physics, Na 2 Mo 2 O 7, Indium, performance
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The Majorana nature of neutrinos is one of the most important questions being pursued in physics today. This has given the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 ν β β ) a high priority among proposed nuclear physics experiments. In this work, the objective was to evaluate several crystal compositions for possible use as a scintillating bolometer in 0 ν β β research. A crucial characteristic of the investigated crystals is that their compositions must include one of the few elements known to decay with double-beta emission. Therefore, we grew crystals containing molybdenum or selenium as a major constituent. Results are presented here for single-crystals of sodium molybdate and lithium indium diselenide. Scintillating bolometer data were measured at milli-Kelvin temperature and show good discrimination between alpha and beta/gamma emissions, which is crucial for background reduction. The lithium indium diselenide crystal was also used to measure the energy spectrum for the beta emission of indium decay, the first time a beta decay spectrum has been measured from self-emission in a scintillating bolometer.

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2018
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24. Low background techniques in bolometers for double-beta decay search

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A. Giuliani, D.V. Poda, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

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radiopurity, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, bolometers, cryogenic detectors, Double-beta decay, enriched materials, low background, particle identification, scintillators, single crystals, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 29.40.Vj, 01 natural sciences, 14.60.Pq, Particle identification, 23.40.-s, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), background: low, 29.40.-n, law, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 14.60.St, radioactivity, 23.40.Bw, performance, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, Particle detector, bolometer, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, High energy resolution, activity report, Astroparticle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, 29.40.Mc, Computational physics, efficiency, and Optics
Abstract

Bolometers are low temperature particle detectors with high energy resolution and detection efficiency. Some types of bolometric detectors are also able to perform an efficient particle identification. A wide variety of radiopure dielectric and diamagnetic materials makes the bolometric technique favorable for applications in astroparticle physics. In particular, thanks to their superior performance, bolometers play an important role in the world-wide efforts on searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Such experiments strongly require an extremely low level of the backgrounds that can easily mimic the process searched for. Here we overview recent progress in the development of low background techniques for bolometric double-beta decay searches., Review, a part of IJMPA Special Issue on Low Background Techniques

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2017
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25. Search for rare processes with DAMA experimental set-ups

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A. d’Angelo, D.V. Kasperovych, S. I. Konovalov, H. H. Kuang, Xinhua Ma, V. Merlo, D. M. Chernyak, V. V. Kobychev, H. L. He, F.A. Danevich, O. G. Polischuk, R. Bernabei, A. Incicchitti, V.N. Shlegel, Rong Wang, A. Di Marco, V.B. Brudanin, D.V. Poda, Vl.I. Tretyak, R. S. Boiko, M. M. Zarytskyy, F. Cappella, Sheng Xiuli, V. Caracciolo, F. Montecchia, Z. P. Ye, V.I. Umatov, C. J. Dai, A. S. Barabash, R. Cerulli, P. Belli, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Particle physics, cadmium, QC1-999, Dark matter, zinc: tungsten, anisotropy, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Set (abstract data type), 0103 physical sciences, rare processes, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, low background techniques, nucleus: recoil, Physics, nucleus: semileptonic decay, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, DAMA, deep underground detector, Gran Sasso, lngs, cadmium: double-beta decay, Underground laboratory, scintillation counter: crystal, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], talk: Kolymbari 2017/08/17, experimental results
Abstract

Profiting of the favourable conditions offered by the Gran Sasso underground laboratory and of the several low-background DAMA set-ups, many and competitive results have been obtained for rare processes. Here the main results will be briefly resumed and some more details about the latest activities will be given. In particular, the searches on ββdecays of 106Cd and 116Cd and the perspectives of a complementary investigation on those Dark Matter (DM) candidates inducing just nuclear recoils, by exploiting the directionality approach with the anisotropic ZnWO4 scintillators, will be underlined.

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26. An innovative bolometric Cherenkov-light detector for a double beta decay search

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E. Olivieri, Eric B. Norman, F. T. Avignone, D. R. Artusa, Claudio Gotti, C. Nones, Y. C. Zhu, S. Pirro, P. de Marcillac, L. Pattavina, Stefano Nisi, K. Schäffner, Ioan Dafinei, Jeffrey W. Beeman, L. Dumoulin, Nicholas Scielzo, D. Orlandi, S. Marnieros, G. Pessina, D.V. Poda, C. Rusconi, S. S. Nagorny, Z. Ge, A. Giuliani, V. Novati, L. Pagnanini, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Novati, V, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Beeman, J, Dafinei, I, Dumoulin, L, Ge, Z, Giuliani, A, Gotti, C, de Marcillac, P, Marnieros, S, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Olivieri, E, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, and Pattavina, L

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, noise, Cherenkov light, Cherenkov detector, Neganov-Luke effect, Neganov–Luke effect, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, tellurium: oxygen, law.invention, helium: background, Nuclear physics, Particle and Plasma Physics, CUORE, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Nuclear, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation, Neganov Luke effect, Nuclear and High Energy Physic, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Molecular, Alpha particle, radiation: Cherenkov, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Other Physical Sciences, cryogenics, efficiency, tellurium: nuclide, photon: detector, particle identification, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Radioactive decay, acceptance
Abstract

Author(s): Novati, V; Artusa, DR; Avignone, FT; Beeman, JW; Dafinei, I; Dumoulin, L; Ge, Z; Giuliani, A; Gotti, C; de Marcillac, P; Marnieros, S; Nagorny, S; Nisi, S; Nones, C; Norman, EB; Olivieri, E; Orlandi, D; Pagnanini, L; Pattavina, L; Pessina, G; Pirro, S; Poda, DV; Rusconi, C; Schaffner, K; Scielzo, ND; Zhu, Y | Abstract: We present here an innovative cryogenic light detector capable to measure a few tens of eV signal thanks to the amplification assisted by the Neganov–Luke effect. The thermal signal boost in the presence of an electric field allows us to improve the signal-to-noise ratio reaching a baseline noise of around 20 eV. This device – coupled to an enriched 130TeO2 bolometer (435 g) – registered 160 eV Cherenkov light signal induced by 2615 keV 208Tl with a signal to noise ratio about 6:1. Since α particles emitted in decays of natural radionuclides do not produce the Cherenkov radiation, we were able to achieve an efficient α∕γ separation in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te (Q-value is 2527 keV). Specifically, a rejection factor of 99.9% for α particles was obtained with a 98.3% acceptance of β∕γ events. The achieved α rejection efficiency is required to reduce the dominant α background in the follow-up of the CUORE experiment (CUPID), a ton-scale bolometric search with particle identification.

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27. $^{100}$Mo-enriched Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for $0\nu 2\beta$ decay search: From LUMINEU to CUPID-0/Mo projects

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D.V. Poda, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), LUMINEU, CUPID-0/Mo, EDELWEISS, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Lithium molybdate, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, energy resolution, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, crystal, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), bolometer, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, background: radioactivity, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], scintillation counter, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, molybdenum: oxygen, deep underground detector, 3. Good health, Full width at half maximum, chemistry, lithium, performance
Abstract

A scintillating bolometer technology based on $^{100}$Mo-enriched lithium molybdate (Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$) crystals has been developed by LUMINEU to search for neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu 2\beta$) decay of $^{100}$Mo. The results of several low temperature tests at underground environments have proved the reproducibility of high detector performance and crystal radiopurity: in particular $\sim$5--6~keV FWHM energy resolution and at least 9$\sigma$ rejection of $\alpha$'s in the vicinity of the $0\nu 2\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo (3034 keV) and below 10~$\mu$Bq/kg bulk activity of $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra. A modest acquired exposure (0.1~kg$\times$yr) is a limiting factor of the LUMINEU experiment sensitivity to the $0\nu 2\beta$ decay half-life of $^{100}$Mo ($T_{1/2}$ $\geq$ 0.7$\times$10$^{23}$ yr at 90\% C.L.), however the two-neutrino $2\beta$ decay has been measured with the best up to-date accuracy, $T_{1/2}$ = $\left[6.92 \pm 0.06(\mathrm{stat.}) \pm 0.36(\mathrm{syst.})\right] \times 10^{18}$ yr. The applicability of the LUMINEU technology for a tonne-scale $0\nu 2\beta$ decay bolometric project CUPID is going to be demonstrated by the CUPID-0/Mo experiment with $\sim$5~kg of $^{100}$Mo embedded in forty 0.2~kg Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers. A first phase of the experiment with twenty Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ detectors is in preparation at the Modane underground laboratory (France) to start by the end of 2017., Comment: Proceedings of the MEDEX'17 meeting (Prague, May 29 - June 2, 2017)

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28. Li2MoO4 Crystals Grown by Low-Thermal-Gradient Czochralski Technique

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A. S. Zolotarova, D.V. Poda, Pierre de Marcillac, N.V. Ivannikova, V.D. Grigorieva, E. Olivieri, F.A. Danevich, A. Giuliani, V. Novati, Tatyana B. Bekker, S. Marnieros, Claudia Nones, and V.N. Shlegel

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Temperature gradient, Materials science, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Composite material, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
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29. Measurement of the cosmogenic activation of germanium detectors in EDELWEISS-III

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A. Juillard, S. Scorza, C. Nones, E. Queguiner, S. V. Rozov, M.-C. Piro, M. Chapellier, V. A. Kudryavtsev, V. Kozlov, Denis Tcherniakhovski, L. Hehn, K. Eitel, G. Heuermann, H. Kraus, D.V. Poda, E. Armengaud, N. Foerster, Alain Benoit, A. Giuliani, H. Le-Sueur, M. Gros, V. Sanglard, E. Yakushev, M. Kleifges, J. Billard, Q. Arnaud, L. Dumoulin, J. Gascon, A. Broniatowski, M. De Jesus, S. Marnieros, A. Cazes, P. Pari, B. Schmidt, B. Paul, J. Blümer, Yong Jin, B. Siebenborn, T. de Boissière, C. Kéfélian, Ph. Camus, F. Charlieux, L. Bergé, Marc Weber, L. Vagneron, X-F. Navick, E. Olivieri, C. Augier, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Matière noire (MANOIR), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Cryogénie (Cryo), Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France, Edelweiss, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, Cosmic ray, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], EDELWEISS, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Semiconductor detector, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Production (computer science), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; We present a measurement of the cosmogenic activation in the germanium cryogenic detectors of the EDELWEISS III direct dark matter search experiment. The decay rates measured in detectors with different exposures to cosmic rays above ground are converted into production rates of different isotopes. The measured production rates in units of nuclei/kg/day are 82 $\pm$ 21 for $^3$H, 2.8 $\pm$ 0.6 for $^{49}$V, 4.6 $\pm$ 0.7 for $^{55}$Fe, and 106 $\pm$ 13 for $^{65}$Zn. These results are the most accurate for these isotopes. A lower limit on the production rate of $^{68}$Ge of 74 nuclei/kg/day is also presented. They are compared to model predictions present in literature and to estimates calculated with the ACTIVIA code.

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30. Enriched TeO$_2$ bolometers with active particle discrimination: towards the CUPID experiment

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F. T. Avignone, D. Orlandi, G. Pessina, L. Dumoulin, A. Giuliani, K. Schäffner, E. Olivieri, Eric B. Norman, Nicholas Scielzo, Z. Ge, Ioan Dafinei, C. Nones, D. R. Artusa, S. Pirro, Y. C. Zhu, S. Marnieros, D.V. Poda, Claudio Gotti, J. W. Beeman, S. S. Nagorny, V. Novati, Stefano Nisi, C. Rusconi, L. Pagnanini, P. de Marcillac, L. Pattavina, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Artusa, D, Avignone, F, Beeman, J, Dafinei, I, Dumoulin, L, Ge, Z, Giuliani, A, Gotti, C, de Marcillac, P, Marnieros, S, Nagorny, S, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novati, V, Olivieri, E, Orlandi, D, Pagnanini, L, Pattavina, L, Pessina, G, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Rusconi, C, Sch�ffner, K, Scielzo, N, Zhu, Y, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay

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radium: admixture, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Neganov-Luke effect, energy resolution, Bolometers, Cherenkov emission, Double beta decay, Isotope enrichment, Neganov–Luke effect, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Crystal, Particle and Plasma Physics, law, thorium: admixture, [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, Physics, uranium: admixture, Neganovâ Luke effect, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, lcsh:QC1-999, Full width at half maximum, tellurium: nuclide, α particles, Astronomical and Space Sciences, performance, FOS: Physical sciences, Neganov–Luke effect, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], tellurium: oxygen, crystal, Nuclear physics, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Nuclear, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, background: radioactivity, Cherenkov radiation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Molecular, Particle, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

We present the performances of two 92% enriched $^{130}$TeO$_2$ crystals operated as thermal bolometers in view of a next generation experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{130}$Te. The crystals, 435 g each, show an energy resolution, evaluated at the 2615 keV $\gamma$-line of $^{208}$Tl, of 6.5 and 4.3 keV FWHM. The only observable internal radioactive contamination arises from $^{238}$U (15 and 8 $\mu$Bq/kg, respectively). The internal activity of the most problematic nuclei for neutrinoless double beta decay, $^{226}$Ra and $^{228}$Th, are both evaluated as $

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31. Performance of the EDELWEISS-III experiment for direct dark matter searches

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B. Paul, Matthew R. Robinson, R. Maisonobe, A. Giuliani, C. Augier, P. Pari, E. Olivieri, V. Sanglard, J. Lin, S. Scorza, G. Garde, S. Hervé, N. Fourches, E. Yakushev, V. A. Kudryavtsev, M. Grollier, A. S. Zolotarova, M. Gros, C. Nones, Marc Weber, E. Queguiner, X. F. Navick, L. Hehn, T. de Boissière, F. Charlieux, Q. Arnaud, D.V. Poda, D. Tcherniakhovski, E. Armengaud, J. Billard, Yong Jin, C. Kéfélian, Alain Benoit, X. Zhang, P. Camus, L. Dumoulin, H. Rodenas, N. Foerster, A. Menshikov, T. Bergmann, K. Eitel, M. De Jesus, B. Schmidt, B. Siebenborn, V. Humbert, A. Juillard, H. Le-Sueur, H. Kraus, L. Vagneron, L. Bergé, V.B. Brudanin, M. Chapellier, M. Mancuso, V. Kozlov, G. Heuermann, J. Gascon, S. Marnieros, A. Cazes, S. V. Rozov, D. Filosofov, G. Bres, A. Broniatowski, Matthias Kleifges, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies [Orsay] (C2N), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), EDELWEISS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon ( IPNL ), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( UCBL ), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut Néel ( NEEL ), Université Grenoble Alpes [Saint Martin d'Hères]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière ( CSNSM ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay ( IRAMIS ), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Electronique (NEEL - ElecLab), and Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo)

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, energy resolution, FOS: Physical sciences, EDELWEISS, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, WIMP, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, germanium: detector, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, gamma ray: irradiation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation, background: radioactivity, Mathematical Physics, nucleus: recoil, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), stability, Semiconductor detector, Full width at half maximum, efficiency, Ionization energy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, performance
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We present the results of measurements demonstrating the efficiency of the EDELWEISS-III array of cryogenic germanium detectors for direct dark matter searches. The experimental setup and the FID (Fully Inter-Digitized) detector array is described, as well as the efficiency of the double measurement of heat and ionization signals in background rejection. For the whole set of 24 FID detectors used for coincidence studies, the baseline resolutions for the fiducial ionization energy are mainly below 0.7 keV$_{ee}$ (FHWM) whereas the baseline resolutions for heat energies are mainly below 1.5 keV$_{ee}$ (FWHM). The response to nuclear recoils as well as the very good discrimination capability of the FID design has been measured with an AmBe source. The surface $\beta$- and $\alpha$-decay rejection power of $R_{\rm surf} < 4 \times 10^{-5}$ per $\alpha$ at 90% C.L. has been determined with a $^{210}$Pb source, the rejection of bulk $\gamma$-ray events has been demonstrated using $\gamma$-calibrations with $^{133}$Ba sources leading to a value of $R_{\gamma{\rm -mis-fid}} < 2.5 \times 10^{-6}$ at 90% C.L.. The current levels of natural radioactivity measured in the detector array are shown as the rate of single $\gamma$ background. The fiducial volume fraction of the FID detectors has been measured to a weighted average value of $(74.6 \pm 0.4)\%$ using the cosmogenic activation of the $^{65}$Zn and $^{68,71}$Ge isotopes. The stability and uniformity of the detector response is also discussed. The achieved resolutions, thresholds and background levels of the upgraded EDELWEISS-III detectors in their setup are thus well suited to the direct search of WIMP dark matter over a large mass range.

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32. Exploratory growth in the Li2MoO4-MoO3 system for the next crystal generation of heat-scintillation cryogenic bolometers

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Pia Loaiza, Hassan El Hafid, Meryem Moutatouia, C. Nones, Matthias Laubenstein, V. Novati, A. Giuliani, A. S. Zolotarova, Pierre de Marcillac, D.V. Poda, Rodolphe Decourt, S. Marnieros, Philippe Veber, E. Olivieri, Dominique Denux, Matias Velázquez, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Crystal growth, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, Thermal expansion, law.invention, Crystal, law, Impurity, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Bolometer, General Chemistry, Atmospheric temperature range, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Neutron spectroscopy, Crystallography, Optoelectronics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract

International audience; In this work, we report on the Czochralski growth of Li2MoO4 crystals up to 230 g for heat-scintillation cryogenic bolometers likely to be used in astroparticle physics and neutron spectroscopy. Their transmission properties, radiopurity levels and detector behavior characterizations were carried out in order to validate the crystal growth process. The melting characteristics, the partition coefficients of a broad range of impurities, the thermal expansion (lattice parameters and dilatometry) and specific heat properties of the crystals were measured, over a broad temperature range for the last two, providing new data likely to be used in crystal growth process numerical simulations. We also investigated the crystal growth of Li4Mo5O17 and determined its melting behavior and specific heat. The physical properties directly relevant to heat-scintillation cryogenic bolometers of Li2MoO4 and Li4Mo5O17 are discussed in the context of the current materials developed for such applications.

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2017
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33. First test of a CdMoO4 scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments with 116Cd and 100Mo nuclides

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M. Xue, A. Giuliani, Sicheng Wen, V. Novati, H. Khalife, S. Marnieros, Haiping Peng, Th. Redon, L. Dumoulin, Y. C. Zhang, H. Chen, P. de Marcillac, E. Olivieri, P. Chen, X. L. Wang, A. S. Zolotarova, Yifeng Wei, C. Nones, Z. Z. Xu, D.V. Poda, and K. Zhao

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Scintillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Natural abundance, Molybdate, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Crystal, Full width at half maximum, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclide, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation
Abstract

A large cylindrical cadmium molybdate crystal with natural isotopic abundance has been used to fabricate a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above ground at milli-Kelvin temperature, with simultaneous readout of the heat and the scintillation light. The energy resolution as FWHM has achieved from 5 keV (at 238 keV) to 13 keV (at 2615 keV). We present the results of the α versus β / γ events discrimination. The low internal trace contamination of the CdMoO 4 crystal was evaluated as well. The detector performance with preliminary positive indications proves that cadmium molybdate crystal is a promising absorber for neutrinoless double beta decay scintillating bolometric experiments with 116 Cd and 100 Mo nuclides in the next-generation technique.

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2019
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34. Effect of tungsten doping on ZnMoO4 scintillating bolometer performance

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V.N. Zhdankov, H. Kraus, V.M. Mokina, P. de Marcillac, M. Tenconi, V.B. Mikhailik, Ya.P. Kogut, E. P. Makarov, Matias Velázquez, S.G. Nasonov, V.N. Shlegel, D. M. Chernyak, V.Ya. Degoda, B. N. Kropivyansky, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, I.M. Ivanov, M. Mancuso, O. Plantevin, I.M. Moroz, A. Giuliani, F.A. Danevich, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute for Nuclear Research of NAS of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Université de Bordeaux (UB), and This work is a part of the program of LUMINEU, a project receiving funds from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France). The collaborative activity between LUMINEU and EDELWEISS was performed in the framework of a MoU in force between the two collaborations. D.V. Poda was supported by the P2IO LabEx (ANR-10-LABX-0038) in the framework 'Investissements d’Avenir' (ANR-11-IDEX-0003-01) managed by the ANR (France). The help of the technical staff of the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane is gratefully acknowledged.

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100Mo, Cryogenic scintillating bolometer, Doped scintillator, Double beta decay, Luminescence, Scintillation decay, Scintillation efficiency, ZnMoO4 crystal, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computer Science (all), Materials science, Analytical chemistry, chemistry.chemical_element, Tungsten, 100100Mo, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Inorganic Chemistry, Crystal, law, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 010306 general physics, Spectroscopy, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Organic Chemistry, Doping, Bolometer, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, chemistry, Molybdenum, Yield (chemistry), Optoelectronics, and Optics, business
Abstract

International audience; The introduction of a small quantity of tungsten oxide (in the range 0.2–0.5 wt%) into the melt improves the growth of ZnMoO4 crystals. No significant difference in the kinetics of scintillation decay, scintillation efficiency, emission spectra, optical transmittance was observed for three ZnMoO4 crystal samples grown from the melt of stoichiometric composition, with excess of molybdenum and doped with tungsten. Using CaWO4 as reference, the absolute light yield of ZnMoO4 is found to be equal to 3550±5503550±550 ph/MeV at 77 K. For two ZnMoO4 samples 20 mm in diameter and 40 mm in length (grown from the melt of stoichiometric composition and doped with tungsten) it is confirmed that scintillation and bolometric response are similar at milli-Kelvin temperature.

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2015
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35. Signals induced by charge-trapping in EDELWEISS FID detectors: analytical modeling and applications

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E. Queguiner, H. Kraus, L. Bergé, B. Schmidt, L. Dumoulin, J. Gascon, A. Broniatowski, B. Paul, J. Blümer, C. Nones, M. De Jesus, P. Pari, H. Le-Sueur, S. Scorza, T. de Boissière, Yong Jin, G. Heuermann, C. Kéfélian, A. Giuliani, S. Marnieros, A. Cazes, N. Foerster, E. Armengaud, V. Sanglard, M.-C. Piro, S. V. Rozov, Ph. Camus, F. Charlieux, V. A. Kudryavtsev, M. Kleifges, M. Gros, X-F. Navick, M. Chapellier, V. Kozlov, E. Yakushev, J. Billard, Alain Benoit, L. Hehn, E. Olivieri, C. Augier, K. Eitel, Denis Tcherniakhovski, N. Fourches, A. Juillard, B. Siebenborn, D.V. Poda, Marc Weber, L. Vagneron, Q. Arnaud, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Matière noire (MANOIR), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Cryogénie (Cryo), Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures (LPN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Edelweiss, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo)

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Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Trapping, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), EDELWEISS, 01 natural sciences, Computational physics, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Sensitivity (control systems), Ionization energy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Mathematical Physics, Energy (signal processing), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The EDELWEISS-III direct dark matter search experiment uses cryogenic HP-Ge detectors Fully covered with Inter-Digitized electrodes (FID). They are operated at low fields ($, 17 pages 12 figures, submitted to JINST, author list updated

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2016
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36. Improved EDELWEISS-III sensitivity for low-mass WIMPs using a profile likelihood approach

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X-F. Navick, Ph. Camus, V. Kozlov, Alain Benoit, V. A. Kudryavtsev, S. V. Rozov, L. Hehn, S. Scorza, A. Juillard, K. Eitel, D.V. Poda, L. Bergé, A. Broniatowski, M.-C. Piro, E. Olivieri, M. Chapellier, J. Blümer, T. de Boissière, B. Siebenborn, L. Vagneron, Marc Weber, C. Kéfélian, C. Augier, H. Kraus, M. Kleifges, Q. Arnaud, B. Schmidt, M. Gros, H. Le-Sueur, V. Sanglard, F. Charlieux, C. Nones, G. Heuermann, M. De Jesus, E. Yakushev, J. Billard, L. Dumoulin, B. Paul, A. Giuliani, E. Queguiner, P. Pari, J. Gascon, S. Marnieros, A. Cazes, E. Armengaud, Yong Jin, Denis Tcherniakhovski, N. Foerster, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Matière noire (MANOIR), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo), EDELWEISS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (HELFA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Cryogénie (Cryo)

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, Massive particle, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), EDELWEISS, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Recoil, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Neutron, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Energy (signal processing), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report on a dark matter search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) in the mass range $m_\chi \in [4, 30]\,\mathrm{GeV}/c^2$ with the EDELWEISS-III experiment. A 2D profile likelihood analysis is performed on data from eight selected detectors with the lowest energy thresholds leading to a combined fiducial exposure of 496 kg-days. External backgrounds from $\gamma$- and $\beta$-radiation, recoils from $^{206}$Pb and neutrons as well as detector intrinsic backgrounds were modelled from data outside the region of interest and constrained in the analysis. The basic data selection and most of the background models are the same as those used in a previously published analysis based on Boosted Decision Trees (BDT). For the likelihood approach applied in the analysis presented here, a larger signal efficiency and a subtraction of the expected background lead to a higher sensitivity, especially for the lowest WIMP masses probed. No statistically significant signal was found and upper limits on the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section can be set with a hypothesis test based on the profile likelihood test statistics. The 90% C.L. exclusion limit set for WIMPs with $m_\chi = 4\,\mathrm{GeV/}c^2$ is $1.6 \times 10^{-39}\,\mathrm{cm^2}$, which is an improvement of a factor of seven with respect to the BDT-based analysis. For WIMP masses above $15\,\mathrm{GeV/}c^2$ the exclusion limits found with both analyses are in good agreement., Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables (updated to accepted version)

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2016
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37. New limits on 2β processes in 106Cd

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V. B. Brudanin, I.A. Tupitsyna, S. d'Angelo, O. G. Polischuk, A. Incicchitti, R. Bernabei, V. Caracciolo, V. I. Tretyak, R. Cerulli, A. Di Marco, F. Cappella, P. Belli, F.A. Danevich, D. M. Chernyak, D.V. Poda, M. Laubenstein, and V.M. Mokina

Subjects
Physics, History, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron capture, double beta decay, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Beta decay, Computer Science Applications, Education, low background techniques, 106Cd, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Isotopes of cadmium, 0103 physical sciences, Cadmium tungstate, Positron emission, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Radioactive decay
Abstract

A radiopure cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator, enriched in 106 Cd to 66%, with mass of 216 g (106CdWO4) was used in coincidence with four ultra-low background HPGe detectors contained in a single cryostat to search for double beta (2β) decay processes in 106 Cd. New improved half-life limits on the 2β processes in 106 Cd have been set on the level of 1020 — 1021 yr after 13085 h of data taking deep underground (3600 m w.e.) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of INFN (Italy). In particular, the limit on the two neutrino electron capture with positron emission, Teβ+2 1/2≥ 1.1 × 1021 yr, has reached the region of theoretical predictions. The resonant neutrinoless double electron captures to the 2718, 2741 and 2748 keV excited states of 106 Pd are restricted on the level of T2e0v 1/2 ≥ (8.5 × 1020 - 1.4 × 1021) yr.

Published
2016

38. First search for 2ε and εβ + decay of 162Er and new limit on 2β − decay of 170Er to the first excited level of 170Yb

Author

A. Incicchitti, R. S. Boiko, Matthias Laubenstein, R. Cerulli, V. Caracciolo, O. G. Polischuk, Stefano Nisi, R. Bernabei, F.A. Danevich, B. N. Kropivyansky, F. Cappella, P. Belli, V. I. Tretyak, and D.V. Poda

Subjects
Physics, Semileptonic decay, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Antiparticle, rare events searches, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron capture, Half-life, low background experiment, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, double electron capture, Excited state, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, 2β decay, 010306 general physics, Radioactive decay, Lepton
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2018
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39. Development and underground test of radiopure ZnMoO4 scintillating bolometers for the LUMINEU 0 nu 2 beta project

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J. Gascon, R. J. Walker, O. Plantevin, A. A. Drillien, V.N. Shlegel, M. Gros, S. Marnieros, K. Eitel, V. Kozlov, Christian Enss, M. Kleifges, B. Paul, T. de Boissière, C. Nones, C. Augier, L. Hehn, E. Olivieri, E. Yakushev, P. Coulter, C. Kéfélian, V. Humbert, G. Gerbier, M. Rodrigues, M. Chapellier, N. Foerster, A. Giuliani, S. Scorza, V. B. Brudanin, G. Heuermann, T. Redon, F. Koskas, L. Dumoulin, P. de Marcillac, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, P. Magnier, S. Hervé, N. Fourches, L. Vagneron, H. Kraus, V.N. Zhdankov, A. Menshikov, M.-C. Piro, Max Robinson, Y. Penichot, X-F. Navick, Matias Velázquez, I.M. Ivanov, V. V. Kobychev, P. Pari, A. Broniatowski, R. Decourt, A. Cazes, D. Filosofov, A. Fleischmann, Oudomsack Viraphong, O. Strazzer, Denis Tcherniakhovski, G. Pessina, D. Gray, L. Gastaldo, Noël Coron, M. Loidl, Ph. Camus, L. Bergé, Alain Benoit, E.P. Makarov, V. A. Kudryavtsev, D.M. Chernyak, S. Henry, E. Armengaud, L. Devoyon, B. Schmidt, F.A. Danevich, Ya.V. Vasiliev, J. Blümer, M. Mancuso, R.S. Boiko, M. De Jesus, M. Tenconi, S. V. Rozov, Marc Weber, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, H. Kluck, T. Bergmann, Q. Arnaud, H. Le Sueur, X. Zhang, V. Sanglard, B. Siebenborn, A. Juillard, S.G. Nasonov, F. Charlieux, L. Torres, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research (KINR), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems [Dubna] (DLNP), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Cryogénie (Cryo), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry [Novosibirsk] (NIC), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), University of Sheffield [Sheffield], Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (DM2I), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Université de Bordeaux (UB), CML Ltd, ANR-12-BS05-0004,LUMINEU,Expérience souterraine avec détecteurs luminescents de molybdate de zinc pour l'étude de la masse et la nature des neutrinos(2012), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), University of Oxford, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département d'instrumentation Numérique (DIN (CEA-LIST)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), HELFA - Hélium : du fondamental aux applications, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CSNSM PS1, Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Laboratory of Particle Physics (JINR-DUBNA), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Cryo - Cryogénie, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Milano] (INFN), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research - Dubna, ANR-12-BS05-004,LUMINEU,Luminescent Underground Molybdenum Investigation for NEUtrino mass and nature, Armengaud, E, Arnaud, Q, Augier, C, Benoit, A, Berge, L, Boiko, R, Bergmann, T, Blumer, J, Broniatowski, A, Brudanin, V, Camus, P, Cazes, A, Chapellier, M, Charlieux, F, Chernyak, D, Coron, N, Coulter, P, Danevich, F, De Boissiere, T, Decourt, R, Jesus, M, Devoyon, L, Drillien, A, Dumoulin, L, Eitel, K, Enss, C, Filosofov, D, Fleischmann, A, Foerster, N, Fourches, N, Gascon, J, Gastaldo, L, Gerbier, G, Giuliani, A, Gray, D, Gros, M, Hehn, L, Henry, S, Herve, S, Heuermann, G, Humbert, V, Ivanov, I, Juillard, A, Kefelian, C, Kleifges, M, Kluck, H, Kobychev, V, Koskas, F, Kozlov, V, Kraus, H, Kudryavtsev, V, Sueur, H, Loidl, M, Magnier, P, Makarov, E, Mancuso, M, De Marcillac, P, Marnieros, S, Marrache-Kikuchi, C, Menshikov, A, Nasonov, S, Navick, X, Nones, C, Olivieri, E, Pari, P, Paul, B, Penichot, Y, Pessina, G, Piro, M, Plantevin, O, Poda, D, Redon, T, Robinson, M, Rodrigues, M, Rozov, S, Sanglard, V, Schmidt, B, Scorza, S, Shlegel, V, Siebenborn, B, Strazzer, O, Tcherniakhovski, D, Tenconi, M, Torres, L, Tretyak, V, Vagneron, L, Vasiliev, Y, Velazquez, M, Viraphong, O, Walker, R, Weber, M, Yakushev, E, Zhang, X, and Zhdankov, V

Subjects
gas and liquid scintillators), Zinc molybdate, Cryogenic detector, EDELWEISS, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, CRYSTAL SCINTILLATORS, chemistry.chemical_compound, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Dilution refrigerator, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, GRADIENT CZOCHRALSKI TECHNIQUE, Mathematical Physics, Physics, TUNGSTATES, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hybrid detector, DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY, Hybrid detectors, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Double-beta decay detectors, Double-beta decay detector, DARK-MATTER SEARCH, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION, Cryogenic detectors, chemistry, Scintillators, LUMINESCENCE, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], PARTICLE PHYSICS, GROWTH, SINGLE-CRYSTALS, Neutrino, Isotopes of thorium, Radioactive decay
Abstract

International audience; The LUMINEU (Luminescent Underground Molybdenum Investigation for NEUtrino mass and nature) project envisages a high-sensitivity search for neutrinoless double beta (0 nu 2 beta) decay of Mo-100 with the help of scintillating bolometers based on zinc molybdate (ZnMoO4) crystals. One of the crucial points for the successful performance of this experiment is the development of a protocol for producing high quality large mass ZnMoO4 crystal scintillators with extremely high internal radiopurity. Here we report a significant progress in the development of large volume ZnMoO4 crystalline boules (with mass up to 1 kg) from deeply purified materials. We present and discuss the results achieved with two ZnMoO4 samples (with mass of about 0.3 kg each): one is a precursor of the LUMINEU project, while the other one was produced in the framework of LUMINEU with an improved purification / crystallization procedure. The two crystals were measured deep underground as scintillating bolometers in the EDELWEISS dilution refrigerator at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) protected by a rock overburden corresponding to 4800 m w.e. The results indicate that both tested crystals are highly radiopure. However, the advanced LUMINEU sample shows a clear improvement with respect to the precursor, exhibiting only a trace internal contamination related with Po-210 at the level of 1 mBq/kg, while the activity of Ra-226 and Th-228 is below 0.005 mBq/kg. This demonstrates that the LUMINEU purification and crystal-growth procedures are very efficient and leads to radiopurity levels which exceedingly satisfy not only the LUMINEU goals but also the requirements of a next-generation 0 nu 2 beta experiment.

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2015
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40. RECENT RESULTS ON THE SEARCH FOR 2β DECAY PROCESSES WITH SCINTILLATORS AND PURE SAMPLES

Author

O. G. Polischuka, A. Di Marco, F. Cappella, D. M. Chernyak, A. Incicchitti, S. Castellano, S. d'Angelo, D.V. Poda, M. Laubenstein, A. S. Barabash, V.V. Kobychev, S. I. Konovalov, R. Bernabei, P. Belli, V.M. Mokina, Vl.I. Tretyak, R. S. Boiko, V. Caracciolo, F.A. Danevich, R. Cerulli, V. I. Umatov, and V. B. Brudanin

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, rare processes, double beta decay, low background techniques, Isotope, Double beta decay, Scintillator, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare
Abstract

Some recent results obtained in the search for double beta decay in vari- ous isotopes obtained in experiments carried out at LNGS with the DAMA/R&D, DAMA/Ge set-up and the STELLA facility will be summarized.

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2015
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41. Search for double beta processes in 106Cd with enriched 106CdWO4 crystal scintillator in coincidence with four crystals HPGe detector

Author

V. B. Brudanin, F. Cappella, S. d'Angelo, I.A. Tupitsyna, D. M. Chernyak, O. G. Polischuk, R. Bernabei, M. Laubenstein, V.M. Mokina, P. Belli, R. Cerulli, A. Incicchitti, F.A. Danevich, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, and V. Caracciolo

Subjects
Physics, Electron capture, double beta decay, 106Cd, low-background techniques, Scintillator, Semiconductor detector, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Double beta decay, Cadmium tungstate, Positron emission, Neutrino, Radioactive decay
Abstract

A radiopure cadmium tungstate crystal scintillator, enriched in 106Cd (106CdWO4), was used to search for double beta decay processes in 106Cd in coincidence with an ultra-low background set-up containing four high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors in a single cryostat. The experiment has been completed after 13085 h of data taking. New improved limits on most of the double beta processes in 106Cd have been set on the level of 1020−1021 yr. Tn particular, the half-life limit on the two neutrino electron capture with positron emission, T1/2 ≥ 1.8 × 1021 yr, reached the region of theoretical predictions.

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2015

42. Status of LUMINEU program to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo with cryogenic ZnMoO4 scintillating bolometers

Author

F. Koskas, L. Torres, Claire A. Marrache-Kikuchi, A. A. Drillien, C. Nones, L. Devoyon, G. Pessina, B. Paul, X-F. Navick, Christian Enss, D.V. Poda, D. Gray, I.M. Ivanov, Matias Velázquez, V. Humbert, O. Strazzer, Loredana Gastaldo, A. Juillard, Achim Fleischmann, Luc Bergé, P. Magnier, M. Tenconi, Ya.V. Vasiliev, M. Gros, F.A. Danevich, Oudomsack Viraphong, Y. Penichot, E. Olivieri, D. M. Chernyak, O. Plantevin, E. P. Makarov, Vl.I. Tretyak, V.N. Shlegel, R. S. Boiko, M. Chapellier, S. Hervé, P. de Marcillac, S. Marnieros, A. Giuliani, T. Redon, L. Dumoulin, M. Mancuso, Martin Loidl, V.V. Kobychev, N. Coron, Matias Rodrigues, Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research (KINR), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Kirchhoff Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria = University of Insubria [Varese] (Uninsubria), Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry [Novosibirsk] (NIC), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (DM2I), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département d'instrumentation Numérique (DIN (CEA-LIST)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Osvaldo Civitarese, Ivan Stekl and Jouni Suhonen, ANR-12-BS05-0004,LUMINEU,Expérience souterraine avec détecteurs luminescents de molybdate de zinc pour l'étude de la masse et la nature des neutrinos(2012), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Università dell’Insubria, Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Milano] (INFN), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, MOLYBDENUM 100, law.invention, Crystal, chemistry.chemical_compound, law, ELEMENTS, ANTICOINCIDENCE, REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS, DOUBLE BETA DECAY, SIGNAL CONDITIONERS, Physics, TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS, BOLOMETERS, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS, ZINC COMPOUNDS, NUCLEAR DECAY, METALS, Neutrino, PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION, TRANSITION ELEMENTS, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, PARTICLE DISCRIMINATION, Radioactive decay, REFRACTORY METALS, Zinc molybdate, PULSE CIRCUITS, PULSE SHAPERS, ENERGY RESOLUTION, MOLYBDATES, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear physics, MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS, MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, BETA DECAY, STABLE ISOTOPES, NUCLEI, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, BETA-MINUS DECAY, CRYSTALS, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, PHOSPHORS, chemistry, RESOLUTION, ISOTOPES, DECAY
Abstract

ISBN: 978-0-7354-1333-7; International audience; The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on 0ν2β decay of 100 Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals enriched in 100 Mo operated as cryogenic scintillating bolometers. Large volume ZnMoO4 crystal scintillators (∼ 0.3 kg) were developed and tested showing high performance in terms of radiopurity, energy resolution and α/β particle discrimination capability. Zinc molybdate crystal scintillators enriched in 100 Mo were grown for the first time by the low-thermal-gradient Czochralski technique with a high crystal yield and an acceptable level of enriched molybdenum irrecoverable losses. A background level of ∼ 0.5 counts/(yr keV ton) in the region of interest can be reached in a large detector array thanks to the excellent detectors radiopurity and particle discrimination capability, suppression of randomly coinciding events by pulse-shape analysis, and anticoincidence cut. These results pave the way to future sensitive searches based on the LUMINEU technology, capable of approaching and exploring the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass pattern.

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2015
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43. Investigation of double beta decay of 116Cd with the help of enriched 116CdWO4 crystal scintillators

Author

Ya.V. Vasiliev, V. I. Umatov, V.M. Mokina, F.A. Danevich, Vl.I. Tretyak, M. Laubenstein, S. I. Konovalov, A. S. Barabash, A. Incicchitti, P. Belli, S. d'Angelo, D.V. Poda, O. G. Polischuk, D. M. Chernyak, R. Bernabei, V.V. Kobychev, R. Cerulli, V.N. Shlegel, F. Cappella, and V. Caracciolo

Subjects
Semileptonic decay, Physics, Half-life, double beta decay, Scintillator, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, 116Cd, low-background techniques, chemistry, Excited state, Double beta decay, Cadmium tungstate, Ground state, Majoron
Abstract

An experiment to search for 2β processes in 116Cd with the help of enriched (to 82%) cadmium tungstate crystal scintillators is in progress at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the INFN (LNGS, Italy). After 11074 h of data taking in the last configuration, the preliminary estimate for the half-life of 116Cd relatively to 2ν2β decay is T1/2 = [2.52 ± 0.02(stat.) ± 0.14(syst.)] × 1019 yr. By using the data of previous stages of the experiment with a similar level of background (≈ 0.1 counts/(keV kg yr) in the energy interval 2.7 – 2.9 MeV; the total time of measurements is 19770 h) we have obtained a new limit on the 0ν2β decay of 116Cd to the ground state of 116Sn: T1/2 ≥ 1.9 × 1023 yr at 90% C.L. New limits on different 2β processes in 116Cd (decays with majorons, transitions to the excited levels) are obtained on the level of T1/2 ≥ 1020 – 1022 yr.

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2015

44. Main results and perspectives on other rare processes with DAMA experiments

Author

R. Cerulli, Z. P. Ye, H. L. He, F.A. Danevich, O. G. Polischuk, F. Cappella, Xiuhua Ma, R. Bernabei, P. Belli, C. J. Dai, A. Incicchitti, Sheng Xiuli, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, H. H. Kuang, V. V. Kobychev, R. S. Boiko, and Rong Wang

Subjects
Double beta decay, axions, alpha decay, beta decay, charge nonconserving decay, nucleon instability, Pauli principle test, scintillation detector, enriched isotopes, Semileptonic decay, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Nuclear Theory, Dark matter, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, symbols.namesake, Pauli exclusion principle, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Axion, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Charge (physics), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, symbols, Alpha decay, Nucleon
Abstract

Development of low radioactive technique allows to investigate many other rare nuclear and subnuclear processes: double [Formula: see text] decay, rare [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] decays, and to search for hypothetical particles and processes like axions, charge nonconserving decays, the nucleon, di-nucleon and tri-nucleon decays into invisible channels, to test the Pauli principle. Here, we present results of the rare processes searches and development of instrumentation for low counting experiments.

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2016
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45. The ADAMO Project and developments

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A. Incicchitti, R. Cerulli, R. Bernabei, A. d’Angelo, P. Belli, F.A. Danevich, D.V. Poda, A. Di Marco, Vl.I. Tretyak, F. Cappella, and V. Caracciolo

Subjects
Physics, History, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Dark matter, Detector, Isotropy, Dark Matter, direzionalita, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Electromagnetic radiation, Particle detector, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Computer Science Applications, Education, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, 010306 general physics, business, Anisotropy
Abstract

In the anisotropic scintillators the light output and the pulse shape for heavy particles (p, α, nuclear recoils) depend on the direction with respect to the crystal axes; the response to γ/β radiation is isotropic instead. This feature offers the possibility to study the directionality approach, which is applicable in the particular case of those Dark Matter candidate particles inducing just nuclear recoils. Among the anisotropic scintillators, the ZnWO4 has unique features, which make it an excellent candidate for this type of research, and there is still plenty of room for the improvement of its performances. Studies on the exploitation of further possibilities are also considered and will be shortly mentioned. In this paper the possibility of a low background pioneer experiment (named ADAMO: Anisotropic detectors for DArk Matter Observation) to exploit the directionality approach by using anisotropic ZnWO4 scintillators is discussed.

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2016
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46. Search for double beta decay of116Cd with enriched116CdWO4crystal scintillators (Aurora experiment)

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V. Caracciolo, S. d'Angelo, O. G. Polischuk, R. Bernabei, F.A. Danevich, D.V. Poda, A. Incicchitti, V.I. Umatov, P. Belli, F. Cappella, S. I. Konovalov, A. S. Barabash, R. Cerulli, V.N. Shlegel, V.M. Mokina, Vl.I. Tretyak, V.V. Kobychev, M. Laubenstein, and D. M. Chernyak

Subjects
History, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, double beta decay, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Education, Crystal, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Cadmium tungstate, 116Cd, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, low background techniques, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Computer Science Applications, MAJORANA, chemistry, Excited state, Neutrino, Ground state
Abstract

The Aurora experiment to investigate double beta decay of $^{116}$Cd with the help of 1.162 kg cadmium tungstate crystal scintillators enriched in $^{116}$Cd to 82\% is in progress at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. The half-life of $^{116}$Cd relatively to the two neutrino double beta decay is measured with the highest up-to-date accuracy $T_{1/2}=(2.62\pm0.14)\times10^{19}$ yr. The sensitivity of the experiment to the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{116}$Cd to the ground state of $^{116}$Sn is estimated as $T_{1/2} \geq 1.9\times10^{23}$ yr at 90\% CL, which corresponds to the effective Majorana neutrino mass limit $\langle m_{\nu}\rangle \leq (1.2-1.8)$ eV. New limits are obtained for the double beta decay of $^{116}$Cd to the excited levels of $^{116}$Sn, and for the neutrinoless double beta decay with emission of majorons., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted as proceedings of the TAUP 2015 conference

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2016
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