Na-based crystal scintillators for next-generation rare event searches

Abstract

The growing interest in clarifying the controversial situation in the Dark Matter sector has driven the experimental efforts towards new ways to investigate the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA result. Among them, low-temperature calorimeters based on Na-containing scintillating crystals offer the possibility to clarify the nature of the measured signal via particle identification. Here we report the first measurement of Na-containing crystals, based on material different from NaI, i.e. Na${}_2$Mo${}_2$O${}_7$ and Na${}_2$W${}_2$O${}_7$, pointing out their excellent performance in term of energy resolution, light yield, and particle identification.

References in corpus (36)

• Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
• A Unified Approach to the Classical Statistical Analysis of Small Signals
• First results from the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter program
• First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector
• First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via $0\nu \beta \beta$ Decay of ${}^{130}$Te
• Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-2L C${}_3$F${}_8$ Bubble Chamber
• First model independent results from DAMA/LIBRA-phase2
• Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ${}^{130}$Te with CUORE
• New Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors
• Q value of the 100Mo Double-Beta Decay
• Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CF${}_3$I Bubble Chamber
• Search for a Dark Matter-Induced Annual Modulation Signal in NaI(Tl) with the COSINE-100 Experiment
• Development of ${}^{100}$Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search
• First Results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
• The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects
• The SABRE project and the SABRE PoP
• First results on dark matter annual modulation from ANAIS-112 experiment
• The COSINUS project - perspectives of a NaI scintillating calorimeter for dark matter search
• Final result of CUPID-0 phase-I in the search for the ${}^{82}$Se Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
• Development of a Li2MoO4 scintillating bolometer for low background physics
• Searches for electron interactions induced by new physics in the EDELWEISS-III germanium bolometers
• ZnMoO4: a promising bolometer for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
• Characterization of bolometric Light Detectors for rare event searches
• Background Model of the CUPID-0 Experiment
• Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches
• A data acquisition and control system for large mass bolometer arrays
• Results from the first cryogenic NaI detector for the COSINUS project
• Optimizing the energy threshold of light detectors coupled to luminescent bolometers
• Search of the neutrino-less double beta decay of ${}^{82}$Se into the excited states of ${}^{82}$Kr with CUPID-0
• A CsI low temperature detector for dark matter search
• Purification of molybdenum oxide, growth and characterization of medium size zinc molybdate crystals for the LUMINEU program
• Cryogenic light detectors with enhanced performance for rare events physics
• Growth and characterization of a Li2Mg2(MoO4)3 scintillating bolometer
• A flexible scintillation light apparatus for rare event searches
• Semi-empirical calculation of quenching factors for scintillators: new results
• First test of a $\mathrm{CdMo}{\mathrm{O}}_4$ scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments with ${}^{116}\mathrm{Cd}$ and ${}^{100}\mathrm{Mo}$ nuclides

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Final Result on the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ${}^{82}$Se with CUPID-0
• Array of Cryogenic Calorimeters to Evaluate the Spectral Shape of forbidden $\beta$-decays: the ACCESS project
• Development of cryogenic calorimeters to measure the spectral shape of In-115 beta decay