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The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory

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arxiv 1507.08177 v2 pith:TUYE2YIV submitted 2015-07-29 physics.ins-det nucl-ex

The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory

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keywords detectorsdemonstratorcdzntecobraexperimentallaboratorylngsunderground
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The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It consists of an array of 64 monolithic, calorimetric CdZnTe semiconductor detectors with a coplanar-grid design and a total mass of 380g. It is used to investigate the experimental challenges faced when operating CdZnTe detectors in low-background mode, to identify potential background sources and to show the long-term stability of the detectors. The first data-taking period started in 2011 with a subset of the detectors, while the demonstrator was completed in November 2013. To date, more than 250kg d of data have been collected. This paper describes technical details of the experimental setup and the hardware components.

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