Development of Micromegas for neutrinoless double beta decay searches
2009
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- JINST 4 (2009) P11016
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The present paper is a summary of experimental tests performed with microbulk Micromegas for application in a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment based in a xenon TPC. No critical limitation related with high pressure has been detected for M icromegas, which has been tested up to 10 bar. No significant differences have been found between low energy X-rays and high energy alpha tracks regarding ionization yield and electronic transparency of Micromegas mesh. Using 5.5 MeV alphas in argon-isobu tane mixtures, values as low as 1.8% FWHM have been obtained, with possible evidence that better resolutions are achievable. These results seems independent of pressure (probed up to 4.5 bar) or gas mixture (microbulks have run in xenon without quencher). The imperative necessity of high quality gas led to start on a new TPC and MPGD dedicated lab at Zaragoza.- double-beta decay: (0neutrino)
- drift chamber: time projection
- ionization: yield
- Micromegas
- pressure
- xenon
- micro-pattern detector
- resolution
- quality
- tracks
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