Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-04-28
Dans 2004 Exploring the universe - Proceedings of the 39th Rencontres de Moriond, The GIOI publishers (Ed.) (2004) 71-76
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Superfluid He3 at ultra-low temperatures (100 microKelvins) is a sensitive medium for the bolometric detection of particles. MACHe3 (MAtrix of Cells of Helium 3) is a project for non-baryonic dark matter search using He3 as a sensitive medium. Simulations made on a high granularity detector show a very good rejection to background signals. A multicell prototype including 3 bolometers has been developed to allow correlations between the cells for background event discrimination. One of the cells contains a low activity Co57 source providing conversion electrons of 7.3 and 13.6 keV to confirm the detection of low energy events. First results on the multicell prototype are presented. A detection threshold of 1 keV has been achieved. The detection of low energy conversion electrons coming from the Co57 source is highlighted as well as the cosmic muon spectrum measurement. The possibility to reject background events by using the correlation among the cells is demonstrated from the simultaneous detection of muons in different cells.
Bunkov Yu.
Genevey J.
Godfrin Henri
Macias-Perez Juan
Moulin Emmanuel
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