학술논문

Pulse shape discrimination in CUPID-Mo using principal component analysis
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Instrumentation. 16(03)
Subject
Nuclear and Plasma Physics
Particle and High Energy Physics
Synchrotrons and Accelerators
Physical Sciences
Analysis and statistical methods
Calorimeters
Data processing methods
Double-beta decay detectors
physics.data-an
nucl-ex
physics.ins-det
Engineering
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Physical sciences
Language
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.