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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 102: Niederenergie-Neutrinophysik 4
T 102.2: Vortrag
Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, 17:05–17:20, WIL-A317
Development of a shield based on Monte–Carlo studies for the COBRA Experiment — •Nadine Heidrich — Institut für Experimentalphysik, 22761 Hamburg, D
COBRA is a next–generation experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using CdZnTe semiconductor detectors.
The main focus is on 116Cd, with a decay energy of 2813.5 keV well above the highest naturally
occurring gamma lines.
The concept for a large scale set–up consists of an array of CdZnTe detectors with a total mass of 420 kg enriched in 116Cd up to 90 %. With a background rate in the order of 10−3 counts/keV/kg/year,
the experiment would be sensitive to a half–life larger than 1026 years, corresponding to a Majorana mass term mββ smaller than 50 meV.
To achieve the background level, an appropriate shield is necessary. The shield is developed based on Monte–Carlo simulations. For that, different materials and configurations are tested. In the talk the current status of the Monte–Carlo survey is presented and discussed.