Scintillating bolometers based on ZnMoO$_4$ and Zn$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals to search for 0$ν$2$β$ decay of $^{100}$Mo (LUMINEU project): first tests at the Modane Underground Laboratory
Creators: name: Poda, D. V.
name: Armengaud, E.
name: Arnaud, Q.
name: Augier, C.
name: Benoît, A.
name: Benoît, A.
name: Bergé, L.
name: Boiko, R. S.
name: Bergmann, T.
name: Blümer, J.
name: Broniatowski, A.
name: Brudanin, V.
name: Camus, P.
name: Cazes, A.
name: Censier, B.
name: Chapellier, M.
name: Charlieux, F.
name: Chernyak, D. M.
name: Coron, N.
name: Coulter, P.
name: Cox, G. A.
name: Danevich, F. A.
name: de Boissière, T.
name: Decourt, R.
name: De Jesus, M.
name: Devoyon, L.
name: Drillien, A. -A.
name: Dumoulin, L.
name: Eitel, K.
name: Enss, C.
name: Filosofov, D.
name: Fleischmann, A.
name: Fourches, N.
name: Gascon, J.
name: Gastaldo, L.
name: Gerbier, G.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Gros, M.
name: Hehn, L.
name: Henry, S.
name: Hervé, S.
name: Heuermann, G.
name: Humbert, V.
name: Ivanov, I. M.
name: Juillard, A.
name: Kéfélian, C.
name: Kleifges, M.
name: Kluck, H.
name: Kobychev, V. V.
name: Koskas, F.
name: Kozlov, V.
name: Kraus, H.
name: Kudryavtsev, V. A.
name: Sueur, H. Le
name: Loidl, M.
name: Magnier, P.
name: Makarov, E. P.
name: Mancuso, M.
name: de Marcillac, P.
name: Marnieros, S.
name: Marrache-Kikuchi, C.
name: Menshikov, A.
name: Nasonov, S. G.
name: Navick, X-F.
name: Nones, C.
name: Olivieri, E.
name: Pari, P.
name: Paul, B.
name: Penichot, Y.
name: Pessina, G.
name: Piro, M. C.
name: Plantevin, O.
name: Redon, T.
name: Robinson, M.
name: Rodrigues, M.
name: Rozov, S.
name: Sanglard, V.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Shlegel, V. N.
name: Siebenborn, B.
name: Strazzer, O.
name: Tcherniakhovski, D.
name: Tenconi, M.
name: Torres, L.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
name: Vagneron, L.
name: Vasiliev, Ya. V.
name: Velazquez, M.
name: Viraphong, O.
name: Walker, R. J.
name: Weber, M.
name: Yakushev, E.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Zhdankov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The technology of scintillating bolometers based on zinc molybdate (ZnMoO$_4$) crystals is under development within the LUMINEU project to search for 0$ν$2$β$ decay of $^{100}$Mo with the goal to set the basis for large scale experiments capable to explore the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass pattern. Advanced ZnMoO$_4$ crystal scintillators with mass of $\sim$~0.3 kg were developed and Zn$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal from enriched $^{100}$Mo was produced for the first time by using the low-thermal-gradient Czochralski technique. One ZnMoO$_4$ scintillator and two samples (59 g and 63 g) cut from the enriched boule were tested aboveground at milli-Kelvin temperature as scintillating bolometers showing a high detection performance. The first results of the low background measurements with three ZnMoO$_4$ and two enriched detectors installed in the EDELWEISS set-up at the Modane Underground Laboratory (France) are presented.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2014), Valencia, Spain, 2-9 July 2014