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- Title
Investigation of peak shapes in the MIBETA experiment calibrations.
- Authors
Ferri, E.; Kraft-Bermuth, S.; Monfardini, A.; Nucciotti, A.; Schaeffer, D.; Sisti, M.
- Abstract
In calorimetric neutrino mass experiments, where the shape of a beta decay spectrum has to be precisely measured, the understanding of the detector response function is a fundamental issue. In the MIBETA neutrino mass experiment, the X-ray lines measured with external sources did not have Gaussian shapes, but exhibited a pronounced shoulder towards lower energies. If this shoulder were a general feature of the detector response function, it would distort the beta decay spectrum and thus mimic a non-zero neutrino mass. An investigation was performed to understand the origin of the shoulder and its potential influence on the beta spectrum. First, the peaks were fitted with an analytic function in order to determine quantitatively the amount of events contributing to the shoulder, also depending on the energy of the calibration X-rays. In a second step, Monte Carlo simulations were performed to reproduce the experimental spectrum and to understand the origin of its shape. We conclude that at least part of the observed shoulder can be attributed to a surface effect.
- Subjects
CALORIMETRY; NEUTRINO mass; X-rays; MONTE Carlo method; GAUSSIAN measures; SPECTRUM analysis; BETA decay
- Publication
European Physical Journal A -- Hadrons & Nuclei, 2012, Vol 48, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1434-6001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epja/i2012-12131-5