21–24 Sept 2026
The Guildhall, York
Europe/London timezone

Event Reconstruction and Detector Performance of the CROSS Experiment

22 Sept 2026, 19:10
1m
Merchant Adventurers Hall

Merchant Adventurers Hall

The Hall, Fossgate, York YO1 9XD
Poster Bolometers Poster Session

Speaker

Leonardo Perna (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Description

The CROSS experiment, currently operating at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain), is dedicated to the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}\mathrm{Mo}$.
CROSS employs enriched $\mathrm{Li_2MoO_4}$ and $\mathrm{TeO_2}$ crystals operated as cryogenic bolometers, together with a secondary bolometric readout of scintillation and Cherenkov light, enabling the discrimination of $\alpha$ events from $\beta/\gamma$ interactions.

In this poster, we present the event reconstruction pipeline based on the OCTOPUS software framework and report on the performance of both the $\mathrm{Li_2MoO_4}$ bolometers and the corresponding light detectors.
We describe the algorithms used to digitally trigger physical events from the continuously acquired data stream, reconstruct the relevant event parameters, correct for temperature-dependent gain fluctuations, calibrate the energy scale, identify non-physical pulses, and perform particle discrimination exploiting the different light yield of $\mathrm{Li_2MoO_4}$ scintillation signals for $\alpha$ and $\beta/\gamma$ particles.
Finally, we report on the detector performance in terms of energy and time resolution, effective light yield, and the efficiency of the various analysis stages.

Author

Leonardo Perna (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Presentation materials