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NEXT Collaboration
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Carcel, S.
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Carrion, J.V.
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Felkai, R.
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Kekic, M.
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Lopez-March, N.
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Martin-Albo, J.
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Martinez, A.
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Martinez-Lema, G.
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Muñoz Vidal, J.
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Novella, P.
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Palmeiro, B.
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Querol, M.
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Romo-Luque, C.
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Sorel, M.
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Uson, A.
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Yahlali, N.
Title
Mitigation of backgrounds from cosmogenic Xe-137 in xenon gas experiments using He-3 neutron capture
Type
Journal Article
Year
2020
Publication
Journal of Physics G
Abbreviated Journal
J. Phys. G
Volume
47
Issue
7
Pages
075001 - 17pp
Keywords
gaseous detectors
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scintillators
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scintillation and light emission processes
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solid
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gas and liquid scintillators
Abstract
Xe-136 is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for 0 nu beta beta. Despite underground operation, cosmic muons that reach the laboratory can produce spallation neutrons causing activation of detector materials. A potential background that is difficult to veto using muon tagging comes in the form of Xe-137 created by the capture of neutrons on Xe-136. This isotope decays via beta decay with a half-life of 3.8 min and a Q(beta) of similar to 4.16 MeV. This work proposes and explores the concept of adding a small percentage of He-3 to xenon as a means to capture thermal neutrons and reduce the number of activations in the detector volume. When using this technique we find the contamination from Xe-137 activation can be reduced to negligible levels in tonne and multi-tonne scale high pressure gas xenon neutrinoless double beta decay experiments running at any depth in an underground laboratory.
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[Rogers, L.; Jones, B. J. P.; Laing, A.; Pingulkar, S.; Smithers, B.; Woodruff, K.; Byrnes, N.; Dingler, R.; McDonald, A. D.; Nygren, D. R.] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, POB 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA, Email: leslie.rogers@mavs.uta.edu
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Iop Publishing Ltd
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English
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0954-3899
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WOS:000537753800001
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no
Is ISI
yes
International Collaboration
yes
Call Number
IFIC @ pastor @
Serial
4423
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