Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

BASKET - Bolometers At Sub-KeV Energy Thresholds

Jul 25, 2019, 5:45 PM
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector Development and Physics Poster session

Speaker

Dr Claudia Nones (CEA/IRFU)

Description

BASKET (Bolometers At Sub-KeV Energy Thresholds) is an R&D program aiming at the development of innovative detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay and for the coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CNNS) at reactors. In this poster, we will focus on the latter search. We propose the development of Li2WO4 crystals as a new absorber material for the CNNS coupled to new thermal sensors (like MMC, NbSi TES or doped-Si) to optimize the time response and the energy threshold. In addition, neutrons can be tagged using the neutron capture on 6Li allowing for an in-situ characterization of the neutron background.
We present first tests on an 11 g Li2WO4 crystal, which was read-out with a Neutron Transmutation Doped Ge sensor and a Ge Neganov-Luke light detector, showing that this compound exhibits good bolometric and scintillation properties.
In parallel, a small 1 g Li2WO4 crystal has been thermally coupled to a metallic magnetic calorimeter and measured at 11 mK. The first results are encouraging: a baseline FWHM energy resolution of 25 eV was obtained corresponding to a threshold of 53 eV, and the pulses have shown a rise time constant (10%-90%) of 370 µs.
The perspective of this activity as a complementary choice to other existing projects on the same subject will be presented.

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