Development of [Formula: see text] -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search

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

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2

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

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2017;77(11):785. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2. Epub 2017 Nov 21.

Authors

E Armengaud¹, C Augier², A S Barabash³, J W Beeman⁴, T B Bekker⁵, F Bellini^{6

7}, A Benoît⁸, L Bergé⁹, T Bergmann¹⁰, J Billard², R S Boiko¹¹, A Broniatowski^{9

12}, V Brudanin¹³, P Camus⁸, S Capelli^{14

15}, L Cardani⁷, N Casali⁷, A Cazes², M Chapellier⁹, F Charlieux², D M Chernyak^{11

16}, M de Combarieu¹⁷, N Coron¹⁸, F A Danevich¹¹, I Dafinei⁷, M De Jesus², L Devoyon¹⁹, S Di Domizio^{20

21}, L Dumoulin⁹, K Eitel²², C Enss²³, F Ferroni^{6

7}, A Fleischmann²³, N Foerster¹², J Gascon², L Gastaldo²³, L Gironi^{14

15}, A Giuliani^{9

24}, V D Grigorieva²⁵, M Gros¹, L Hehn^{4

22}, S Hervé¹, V Humbert⁹, N V Ivannikova²⁵, I M Ivanov²⁵, Y Jin²⁶, A Juillard², M Kleifges¹⁰, V V Kobychev¹¹, S I Konovalov³, F Koskas¹⁹, V Kozlov¹², H Kraus²⁷, V A Kudryavtsev²⁸, M Laubenstein²⁹, H Le Sueur⁹, M Loidl³⁰, P Magnier¹, E P Makarov²⁵, M Mancuso^{9

24

31}, P de Marcillac⁹, S Marnieros⁹, C Marrache-Kikuchi⁹, S Nagorny²⁹, X-F Navick¹, M O Nikolaichuk¹¹, C Nones¹, V Novati⁹, E Olivieri⁹, L Pagnanini^{29

32}, P Pari¹⁷, L Pattavina²⁹, M Pavan^{14

15}, B Paul¹, Y Penichot¹, G Pessina^{14

15}, G Piperno³³, S Pirro²⁹, O Plantevin⁹, D V Poda^{9

11}, E Queguiner², T Redon¹⁸, M Rodrigues³⁰, S Rozov¹³, C Rusconi^{29

34}, V Sanglard², K Schäffner^{29

32}, S Scorza^{12

35}, V N Shlegel²⁵, B Siebenborn²², O Strazzer¹⁹, D Tcherniakhovski¹⁰, C Tomei⁷, V I Tretyak¹¹, V I Umatov³, L Vagneron², Ya V Vasiliev²⁵, M Velázquez³⁶, M Vignati⁷, M Weber¹⁰, E Yakushev¹³, A S Zolotarova¹

Affiliations

¹ 1IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
² 2Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
³ National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia.
⁴ 4Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
⁵ 5V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
⁶ 6Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy.
⁷ 7INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy.
⁸ CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
⁹ 9CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France.
¹⁰ 10Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹¹ 11Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine.
¹² 12Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹³ 13Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia.
¹⁴ 14Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy.
¹⁵ 15INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy.
¹⁶ 34Present Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba Japan.
¹⁷ 16IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
¹⁸ 17IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France.
¹⁹ 18Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
²⁰ 19Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy.
²¹ 20INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy.
²² 21Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany.
²³ 22Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
²⁴ 23DISAT, Università dell'Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy.
²⁵ 24Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
²⁶ 25Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France.
²⁷ 26Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH UK.
²⁸ 27Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH UK.
²⁹ 28INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy.
³⁰ 29CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
³¹ 35Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany.
³² 30INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
³³ 31INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Rome, Italy.
³⁴ 32Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA.
³⁵ Present Address: SNOLAB, Lively, ON Canada.
³⁶ 33ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France.

Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a technology involving $^{100} Mo$ -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( $\sim 1 kg$ ), high optical quality, radiopure $^{100} Mo$ -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 $^{100} Mo$ (3034 keV) is 4-6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the $α$ -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than $8 σ$ . Less than $10 μ Bq/kg$ activity of $^{232} Th (^{228} Th)$ and $^{226} Ra$ in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of $^{100} Mo$ -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only $10 kg \times d$ exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of $^{100} Mo$ has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as $T_{1 / 2}$ = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] $\times 10^{18} years$ . 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 $^{100} Mo$ .