Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

Z. Li; W. R. Cen; A. Robinson; D. C. Moore; L. J. Wen; A. Odian; S. Al Kharusi; G. Anton; I. J. Arnquist; I. Badhrees; P. S. Barbeau; D. Beck; V. Belov; T. Bhatta; J. P. Brodsky; E. Brown; T. Brunner; E. Caden; G. F. Cao; L. Cao; C. Chambers; B. Chana; S. A. Charlebois; M. Chiu; B. Cleveland; M. Coon; A. Craycraft; J. Dalmasson; T. Daniels; L. Darroch; S. J. Daugherty; A. De St Croix; A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian; R. DeVoe; M. L. Di Vacri; J. Dilling; Y. Y. Ding; M. J. Dolinski; A. Dragone; J. Echevers; M. Elbeltagi; L. Fabris; D. Fairbank; W. Fairbank; J. Farine; S. Ferrara; S. Feyzbakhsh; R. Fontaine; A. Fucarino; G. Gallina; P. Gautam; G. Giacomini; D. Goeldi; R. Gornea; G. Gratta; E. V. Hansen; M. Heffner; E. W. Hoppe; J. Hoessl; A. House; M. Hughes; A. Iverson; A. Jamil; M. J. Jewell; X. S. Jiang; A. Karelin; L. J. Kaufman; D. Kodroff; T. Koffas; R. Krucken; A. Kuchenkov; K. S. Kumar; Y. Lan; A. Larson; K. G. Leach; B. G. Lenardo; D. S. Leonard; G. Li; S. Li; C. Licciardi; Y. H. Lin; P. Lv; R. MacLellan; T. McElroy; M. Medina-Peregrina; T. Michel; B. Mong; K. Murray; P. Nakarmi; C. R. Natzke; R. J. Newby; Z. Ning; O. Njoya; F. Nolet; O. Nusair; K. Odgers; M. Oriunno; J. L. Orrell; G. S. Ortega; I. Ostrovskiy; C. T. Overman; S. Parent; A. Piepke; A. Pocar; J. -F. Pratte; V. Radeka; E. Raguzin; S. Rescia; F. Retiere; M. Richman; T. Rossignol; P. C. Rowson; N. Roy; J. Runge; R. Saldanha; S. Sangiorgio; K. Skarpaas; A. K. Soma; G. St-Hilaire; V. Stekhanov; T. Stiegler; X. L. Sun; M. Tarka; J. Todd; T. Tolba; T. I. Totev; R. Tsang; T. Tsang; F. Vachon; V. Veeraraghavan; S. Viel; G. Visser; C. Vivo-Vilches; J. -L. Vuilleumier; M. Wagenpfeil; M. Walent; Q. Wang; M. Ward; J. Watkins; M. Weber; W. Wei; U. Wichoski; S. X. Wu; W. H. Wu; X. Wu; Q. Xia; H. Yang; L. Yang; Y. -R. Yen; O. Zeldovich; J. Zhao; Y. Zhou; T. Ziegler; nEXO Collaboration

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Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

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Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

Z. Li, W. R. Cen, A. Robinson, D. C. Moore, L. J. Wen, A. Odian, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. J. Arnquist, I. Badhrees, …

Journal of instrumentation, Vol.14(9), pp.P09020-P09020

24/09/2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/P09020

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nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay (0 nu beta beta) of Xe-136 in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC will be equipped with charge collection tiles to form the anode. In this work, the charge reconstruction performance of this anode design is studied with a dedicated simulation package. A multi-variate method and a deep neural network are developed to distinguish simulated 0 nu beta beta signals from backgrounds arising from trace levels of natural radioactivity in the detector materials. These simulations indicate that the nEXO TPC with charge-collection tiles shows promising capability to discriminate the 0 nu beta beta signal from backgrounds. The estimated half-life sensitivity for 0 nu beta beta decay is improved by similar to 20 (32)% with the multi-variate (deep neural network) methods considered here, relative to the sensitivity estimated in the nEXO pre-conceptual design report.

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Title: Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO
Creators - without role: Z. Li - Yale University
W. R. Cen - Chinese Academy of Sciences
A. Robinson - Laurentian University
D. C. Moore - Yale University
L. J. Wen - Chinese Academy of Sciences
A. Odian - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
S. Al Kharusi - McGill University
G. Anton - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
I. J. Arnquist - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I. Badhrees - Carleton University
P. S. Barbeau - Duke University
D. Beck - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
V. Belov - Kurchatov Institute
T. Bhatta - University of South Dakota
J. P. Brodsky - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. Brown - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
T. Brunner - McGill University
E. Caden - Laurentian University
G. F. Cao - Chinese Academy of Sciences
L. Cao - Chinese Academy of Sciences
C. Chambers - Colorado State University
B. Chana - Carleton University
S. A. Charlebois - Université de Sherbrooke
M. Chiu - Brookhaven National Laboratory
B. Cleveland - Laurentian University
M. Coon - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A. Craycraft - Colorado State University
J. Dalmasson - Stanford University
T. Daniels - University of North Carolina Wilmington
L. Darroch - McGill University
S. J. Daugherty - Indiana University
A. De St Croix - TRIUMF
A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian - Laurentian University
R. DeVoe - Stanford University
M. L. Di Vacri - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. Dilling - University of British Columbia
Y. Y. Ding - Chinese Academy of Sciences
M. J. Dolinski - Drexel University
A. Dragone - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. Echevers - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M. Elbeltagi - Carleton University
L. Fabris - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
D. Fairbank - Colorado State University
W. Fairbank - Colorado State University
J. Farine - Laurentian University
S. Ferrara - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
S. Feyzbakhsh - University of Massachusetts Amherst
R. Fontaine - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
A. Fucarino - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
G. Gallina - University of British Columbia
P. Gautam - Drexel University
G. Giacomini - Brookhaven National Laboratory
D. Goeldi - Carleton University
R. Gornea - Carleton University
G. Gratta - Stanford University
E. V. Hansen - Drexel University
M. Heffner - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E. W. Hoppe - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
J. Hoessl - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
A. House - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
M. Hughes - University of Alabama
A. Iverson - Colorado State University
A. Jamil - Yale University
M. J. Jewell - Stanford University
X. S. Jiang - Chinese Academy of Sciences
A. Karelin - Kurchatov Institute
L. J. Kaufman - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
D. Kodroff - University of Massachusetts Amherst
T. Koffas - Carleton University
R. Krucken - University of British Columbia
A. Kuchenkov - Kurchatov Institute
K. S. Kumar - Stony Brook University
Y. Lan - University of British Columbia
A. Larson - University of South Dakota
K. G. Leach - Colorado School of Mines
B. G. Lenardo - Stanford University
D. S. Leonard - Ibs
G. Li - Stanford University
S. Li - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
C. Licciardi - Laurentian University
Y. H. Lin - Drexel University
P. Lv - Chinese Academy of Sciences
R. MacLellan - University of South Dakota
T. McElroy - McGill University
M. Medina-Peregrina - McGill University
T. Michel - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
B. Mong - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
K. Murray - McGill University
P. Nakarmi - University of Alabama
C. R. Natzke - Colorado School of Mines
R. J. Newby - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Z. Ning - Chinese Academy of Sciences
O. Njoya - Stony Brook University
F. Nolet - Université de Sherbrooke
O. Nusair - University of Alabama
K. Odgers - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M. Oriunno - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
J. L. Orrell - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
G. S. Ortega - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I. Ostrovskiy - University of Alabama
C. T. Overman - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
S. Parent - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
A. Piepke - University of Alabama
A. Pocar - University of Massachusetts Amherst
J. -F. Pratte - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Radeka - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
E. Raguzin - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
S. Rescia - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
F. Retiere - TRIUMF
M. Richman - Drexel University
T. Rossignol - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
P. C. Rowson - Menlo School
N. Roy - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
J. Runge - Duke University
R. Saldanha - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
S. Sangiorgio - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
K. Skarpaas - Menlo School
A. K. Soma - University of Alabama
G. St-Hilaire - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Stekhanov - Kurchatov Institute
T. Stiegler - Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
X. L. Sun - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
M. Tarka - Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
J. Todd - Colorado State University
T. Tolba - Forschungszentrum Jülich
T. I. Totev - McGill University
R. Tsang - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
T. Tsang - Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY 11973 USA
F. Vachon - Univ Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
V. Veeraraghavan - University of Alabama
S. Viel - Carleton University
G. Visser - Indiana University
C. Vivo-Vilches - Carleton University
J. -L. Vuilleumier - University of Bern
M. Wagenpfeil - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M. Walent - Laurentian University
Q. Wang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
M. Ward - Queens University
J. Watkins - Carleton University
M. Weber - Stanford University
W. Wei - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
U. Wichoski - Laurentian University
S. X. Wu - Stanford University
W. H. Wu - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
X. Wu - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
Q. Xia - Yale University
H. Yang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
L. Yang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Y. -R. Yen - Drexel University
O. Zeldovich - Kurchatov Institute
J. Zhao - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
Y. Zhou - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Microelect, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
T. Ziegler - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
nEXO Collaboration
Publication Details: Journal of instrumentation, Vol.14(9), pp.P09020-P09020
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
Number of pages: 25
Grant note: IBS in Korea CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) FRQNT, NRC McDonald Institute (CFREF) in Canada Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) NSF in the United States; National Science Foundation (NSF) 18-02-00550 / RFBR in Russia; Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Offices of Nuclear and High Energy Physics within DOE's Office of Science; United States Department of Energy (DOE) NSFC in China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) CFI; Canada Foundation for Innovation Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) programs at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Identifiers: 9918729308331
Academic Unit: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology; King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article