A Study on PbMoO 4 Phonon-Scintillation Detection with MMC Readouts for a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search

H. L. Kim; J. H. So; Y. H. Kim; H. J. Kim; S. S. Nagorny; S. R. Kim; Y. D. Kim; M. H. Lee; V. N. Shlegel

doi:10.1007/s10909-022-02824-7

A Study on PbMoO ₄ Phonon-Scintillation Detection with MMC Readouts for a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search

H. L. Kim, J. H. So, Y. H. Kim, H. J. Kim, S. S. Nagorny, S. R. Kim, Y. D. Kim, M. H. Lee, V. N. Shlegel

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Abstract

The advanced Mo-based rare process experiment (AMoRE) is an international project searching for the neutrinoless double beta (0 νββ) decay of ¹⁰⁰Mo using low-temperature calorimetric detection of heat and light signals based on magnetic microcalorimeter (MMC) readouts. Li ₂MoO ₄ crystals have been considered as the main target crystals for the second phase of the AMoRE project, which aims to use 100 kg of ¹⁰⁰Mo. However, the hygroscopicity of Li ₂MoO ₄ requires moistureless processes during surface treatment, storage, detector assembly, and installation. PbMoO ₄ crystals are nonhygroscopic and exhibit high scintillation efficiency, often leading to high particle discrimination power in the phonon channel via pulse-shape analysis and light/heat ratio variation. A low-temperature detector setup with a 1 cm ³ cubic crystal of PbMoO ₄ was prepared for simultaneous heat and light detection based on MMC readouts. After study of internal background control using archeological Pb, PbMoO ₄ crystal can be a promising candidate crystal. We present a feasibility study of PbMoO ₄ crystals for a 0 νββ experiment.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Low Temperature Physics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02824-7
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

Keywords

Low-temperature detectors
Magnetic microcalorimete
Neutrinoless double beta decay
PbMoO
Phonon-scintillation detector
Rare process experiment

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A Study on PbMoO ₄ Phonon-Scintillation Detection with MMC Readouts for a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search

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