Event Classification in Liquid Scintillator Using PMT Hit Patterns for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches /

• Main Author: Dunger, Jack (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Particle acceleration.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Statistics .; Physical measurements.; Measurement .; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Measurement Science and Instrumentation.

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the highest priority areas in particle physics today; it could provide insights to the nature of neutrino masses (currently not explained by the Standard Model) as well as how the universe survived its early stages. One promising experimental a...

Table of Contents:

• Theory
• The SNO+ Experiment
• Reconstruction
• Backgrounds
• Pulse Shape Discrimination for Internal Backgrounds
• Pulse Shape Discrimination of External Backgrounds
• The OXO Signal Extraction Framework
• 0νββ Extraction
• Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with Slow Scintillator
• Conclusions
• Appendices.