FLARES is a project for an innovative detector technology to be applied to rare event searches, and in particular to neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Its novelty is the enhancement and optimization of the collection of the scintillation light emitted by ultra-pure crystals through the use of arrays of high performance silicon photodetectors cooled to 120 K. This would provide scintillation detectors with 1% level energy resolution, with the advantages of a technology offering relatively simple low cost mass scalability and powerful background reduction handles, as requested by future neutrinoless double beta decay experimental programs. The performances of a first production of matrices of Silicon Drift Detectors are presented and discussed in this paper.
FLARES: A flexible scintillation light apparatus for rare event searches / Sisti, M; Baldazzi, Giuseppe; Bonvicini, V.; Campana, Riccardo; Capelli, S.; Evangelista, Y.; Feroci, M.; Fuschino, Fabio; Gironi, L.; Labanti, C.; Marisaldi, Martino; Previtali, E.; Rignanese, LUIGI PIO; Rachevsky, A.; Vacchi, A.; Zampa, G.; Zampa, N.; Zuffa, M.. - In: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. - ISSN 0168-9002. - ELETTRONICO. - 824:(2016), pp. 661-664. [10.1016/j.nima.2015.09.028]
FLARES: A flexible scintillation light apparatus for rare event searches
BALDAZZI, GIUSEPPEProject Administration
;CAMPANA, RICCARDOInvestigation
;FUSCHINO, FABIOInvestigation
;MARISALDI, MARTINOMembro del Collaboration Group
;RIGNANESE, LUIGI PIOInvestigation
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2016
Abstract
FLARES is a project for an innovative detector technology to be applied to rare event searches, and in particular to neutrinoless double beta decay experiments. Its novelty is the enhancement and optimization of the collection of the scintillation light emitted by ultra-pure crystals through the use of arrays of high performance silicon photodetectors cooled to 120 K. This would provide scintillation detectors with 1% level energy resolution, with the advantages of a technology offering relatively simple low cost mass scalability and powerful background reduction handles, as requested by future neutrinoless double beta decay experimental programs. The performances of a first production of matrices of Silicon Drift Detectors are presented and discussed in this paper.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
