Precision pulse shape simulation for proton detection at the Nab experiment

Leendert Hayen; Jin Ha Choi; Dustin Combs; R. J. Taylor; Stefan Baeßler; Noah Birge; Leah J. Broussard; Christopher B. Crawford; Nadia Fomin; Michael Gericke; Francisco Gonzalez; Aaron Jezghani; Nick Macsai; Mark Makela; David G. Mathews; Russell Mammei; Mark McCrea; August Mendelsohn; Austin Nelsen; Grant Riley; Tom Shelton; Sky Sjue; Erick Smith; Albert R. Young; Bryan Zeck

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.107.065503

Precision pulse shape simulation for proton detection at the Nab experiment

Leendert Hayen, Jin Ha Choi, Dustin Combs, R. J. Taylor, Stefan Baeßler, Noah Birge, Leah J. Broussard, Christopher B. Crawford, Nadia Fomin, Michael Gericke, Francisco Gonzalez, Aaron Jezghani, Nick Macsai, Mark Makela, David G. Mathews, Russell Mammei, Mark McCrea, August Mendelsohn, Austin Nelsen, Grant RileyTom Shelton, Sky Sjue, Erick Smith, Albert R. Young, Bryan Zeck

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Abstract

The Nab experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, aims to measure the beta-antineutrino angular correlation following neutron β decay to an anticipated precision of approximately 0.1%. The proton momentum is reconstructed through proton time-of-flight measurements, and potential systematic biases in the timing reconstruction due to detector effects must be controlled at the nanosecond level. We present a thorough and detailed semiconductor and quasiparticle transport simulation effort to provide precise pulse shapes, and report on relevant systematic effects and potential measurement schemes.

Original language	English
Article number	065503
Journal	Physical Review C
Volume	107
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.065503
State	Published - Jun 2023

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This article was supported through the Department of Energy (DOE), Low Energy Physics (Contracts No. DE-FG02-ER41042, No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, No. DE-FG02-03ER41258, No. DE-SC0008107, and No. DE-SC0014622) and through the National Science Foundation (NSF) (Contracts No. PHY-1914133, No. PHY-2209590, and No. PHY-2111363). This research was sponsored by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, and the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the US Department of Energy. The publisher acknowledges the US government license to provide public access under the DOE Public Access Plan .

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Hayen, L., Choi, J. H., Combs, D., Taylor, R. J., Baeßler, S., Birge, N., Broussard, L. J., Crawford, C. B., Fomin, N., Gericke, M., Gonzalez, F., Jezghani, A., Macsai, N., Makela, M., Mathews, D. G., Mammei, R., McCrea, M., Mendelsohn, A., Nelsen, A., ... Zeck, B. (2023). Precision pulse shape simulation for proton detection at the Nab experiment. Physical Review C, 107(6), Article 065503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.065503

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