TY - JOUR
T1 - The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory
AU - Ebert, J.
AU - Fritts, M.
AU - Gehre, D.
AU - Gößling, C.
AU - Göpfert, T.
AU - Hagner, C.
AU - Heidrich, N.
AU - Klingenberg, R.
AU - Köttig, T.
AU - Kröninger, K.
AU - Michel, T.
AU - Neddermann, T.
AU - Nitsch, C.
AU - Oldorf, C.
AU - Quante, T.
AU - Rajek, S.
AU - Rebber, H.
AU - Reinecke, O.
AU - Rohatsch, K.
AU - Schulz, O.
AU - Sörensen, A.
AU - Stekl, I.
AU - Tebrügge, J.
AU - Temminghoff, R.
AU - Theinert, R.
AU - Timm, J.
AU - Wester, T.
AU - Wonsak, B.
AU - Zatschler, S.
AU - Zuber, K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/1/21
Y1 - 2016/1/21
N2 - The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It consists of an array of 64 monolithic, calorimetric CdZnTe semiconductor detectors with a coplanar-grid design and a total mass of 380 g. It is used to investigate the experimental challenges faced when operating CdZnTe detectors in low-background mode, to identify potential background sources and to show the long-term stability of the detectors. The first data-taking period started in 2011 with a subset of the detectors, while the demonstrator was completed in November 2013. To date, more than 250 kg d of data have been collected. This paper describes the technical details of the experimental setup and the hardware components.
AB - The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It consists of an array of 64 monolithic, calorimetric CdZnTe semiconductor detectors with a coplanar-grid design and a total mass of 380 g. It is used to investigate the experimental challenges faced when operating CdZnTe detectors in low-background mode, to identify potential background sources and to show the long-term stability of the detectors. The first data-taking period started in 2011 with a subset of the detectors, while the demonstrator was completed in November 2013. To date, more than 250 kg d of data have been collected. This paper describes the technical details of the experimental setup and the hardware components.
KW - CZT
KW - CdZnTe
KW - Coplanar-grid
KW - Neutrinoless double beta-decay
KW - Semiconductor detector
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2015.10.079
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2015.10.079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947263934
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 807
SP - 114
EP - 120
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
ER -