Monte Carlo evaluation of the external gamma, neutron and muon induced background sources in the CUORE experiment

Details Monte Carlo evaluation of the external gamma, neutron and muon induced background sources in the CUORE experiment Monte Carlo evaluation of the external gamma, neutron and muon induced background sources in the CUORE experiment

2009-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/0912.0452v3

Astropart.Phys.33:169-174,2010

Physics

Instrumentation and Detectors

14 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.01.

CUORE is a 1 ton scale cryogenic experiment aiming at the measurement of the Majorana mass of the electron neutrino. The detector is an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers used for a calorimetric detection of the two electrons emitted in the BB0n of 130Te. The sensitivity of the experiment to the lowest Majorana mass is determined by the rate of background events that can mimic a BB0n. In this paper we investigate the contribution of external sources i.e. environmental gammas, neutrons and cosmic ray muons to the CUORE background and show that the shielding setup designed for CUORE guarantees a reduction of this external background down to a level <1.0E-02 c/keV/kg/y at the Q-value, as required by the physical goal of the experiment.

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