Technical design and performance of the NEMO3 detector

Abstract

The development of the NEMO3 detector, which is now running in the Frejus Underground Laboratory (L.S.M. Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane), was begun more than ten years ago. The NEMO3 detector uses a tracking-calorimeter technique in order to investigate double beta decay processes for several isotopes. The technical description of the detector is followed by the presentation of its performance.

Preprint submitted to Nucl. Instrum. Methods A Corresponding author: Corinne Augier ([email protected])

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