학술논문
Pulse Shape Discrimination in the IGEX Experiment
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
Gonzalez, D.; Morales, J.; Cebrian, S.; Garcia, E.; Irastorza, I. G.; Morales, A.; de Solorzano, A. Ortiz; Puimedon, J.; Sarsa, M. L.; Villar, J. A.; Aalseth, C. E.; Avignone III, F. T.; Brodzinski, R. L.; Hensley, W. K.; Miley, H. S.; Reeves, J. H.; Kirpichnikov, I. V.; Klimenko, A. A.; Osetrov, S. B.; Smolnikov, A. A.; Vasenko, A. A.; Vasiliev, S. I.; Pogosov, V. S.; Tamanyan, A. G.
Source
Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A515 (2003) 634-643
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Abstract
The IGEX experiment has been operating enriched germanium detectors in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain) in a search for the neutrinoless double decay of 76Ge. The implementation of Pulse Shape Discrimination techniques to reduce the radioactive background is described in detail. This analysis has been applied to a fraction of the IGEX data, leading to a rejection of ~60 % of their background, in the region of interest (from 2 to 2.5 MeV), down to ~0.09 c/(keV kg y).
Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures
Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures